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Beautiful Ideas.
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Do you find the natural world beautiful?
Does this world embody beautiful ideas?
Does this world embody beautiful ideas?
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Khandro, In science a reference is a link to a related piece of work that has some relevance. This piece of work is recoverable and contains relevant facts. Your persisent name dropping is not a reference in the above sense, it is just an attempt at intellectual bullying. Give me just one reference that proves the existence of god if you can.
As someone who believes in god, I wonder why other people who believe feel the need for proof or to argue with other people. You can’t “prove” belief or argue people into it so why try?
The intelligent design argument has been around for years. Personally I find it an unconvincing argument for either side.
The intelligent design argument has been around for years. Personally I find it an unconvincing argument for either side.
It's not particularly difficult to see where the notion of an intelligence guiding the creation and make up of reality comes from. The difficulty appears to be in arriving at the only logical conclusion following from observation, that the faculties of intelligence and creativity are necessarily a product of rather than the creator of that reality.
jomifl; //After all he wasn't a cleric was he?// No. but he gazed into the universe, in his day, deeper than anyone else, so I respect his views rather more than some people's.
I once, on AB, used a well-known quote from Plato and got the response,(no names, no pack-drill) "Why do you quote someone else, don't you have any ideas of your own?"
I said, occasionally, but they never seem to be as good as Plato's :0)
I once, on AB, used a well-known quote from Plato and got the response,(no names, no pack-drill) "Why do you quote someone else, don't you have any ideas of your own?"
I said, occasionally, but they never seem to be as good as Plato's :0)
I'd say for me the biggest problem with your use of quotes is that they appear sometimes to be more about ending a discussion than beginning it. The implication of Einstein (or Newton, Aristotle, Bohr, Schroedinger, ...) saying such-and-such is that, well, here is what a genius thinks, so it's surely correct. I've no idea if this is fair or not, but it sure feels that way at times. It's an over-reliance on authority (and anyway risks misinterpreting the point of the original quote, or is overly selective) that doesn't really move anything forward very much, and can be quite frustrating to try and engage with.
Not that my exhaustive, at-the-character-limit, spread-across-two-full-answer-boxes posts are necessarily much better for engaging with (I'm sure I talk too much), but at least it's original content. That runs the risk of being wrong, of course, but it's a risk worth taking I feel.
Not that my exhaustive, at-the-character-limit, spread-across-two-full-answer-boxes posts are necessarily much better for engaging with (I'm sure I talk too much), but at least it's original content. That runs the risk of being wrong, of course, but it's a risk worth taking I feel.
