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Re: Three Arguments For God's Existence by Kay17: 3:02pm On Jul 21, 2015 |
davodyguy: Lets say, you imagine a mass of iron to move faster than light, wouldn't that work out perfectly in your mind? of course it will. Now, in reality, can you make a mass of iron move faster than light? Why? The reason is a result of physical laws, which dictate how the Universe works. So any imagination and your creativity, have to be manifested in conformity with the physical laws. Think about thermodynamics and the perpetual machine. Or relativity. Or motion. 1 Like |
Re: Three Arguments For God's Existence by thehomer: 3:07pm On Jul 21, 2015 |
AllNaijaBlogger: What do you think they do with DNA that would make them die instantly at the cellular level but red blood cells live for weeks without it? I still don't see how I lied. AllNaijaBlogger: That is a misuse of the word and that is what the dictionary will tell you. Secondly, that isn't the meaning that was implied in the use on this thread. AllNaijaBlogger: So if you were to shoot a man walking around with terminal cancer, would that be murder? After all, everyone will die at some point so are you literally a dead man walking just because you've not been diagnosed now with terminal cancer? AllNaijaBlogger: More rubbish. AllNaijaBlogger: So what can you do with eba that you can't do with garri? AllNaijaBlogger: Can you DNA type on a keyboard? |
Re: Three Arguments For God's Existence by thehomer: 3:08pm On Jul 21, 2015 |
KingEbukasBlog: Where are God's hands today? |
Re: Three Arguments For God's Existence by thehomer: 3:08pm On Jul 21, 2015 |
KingEbukasBlog: What were God's hands made of? 1 Like |
Re: Three Arguments For God's Existence by Kay17: 3:32pm On Jul 21, 2015 |
MrAnony1: I say a design is inspired by a designer. The designer being an intelligent force working to bring out a creation it worked out in mind, into fruition. I identify humans as such of this force. So a design goes with a designer. As I have earlier said in this thread, we extrapolate human creativity with the Universe and conclude the Universe is analogous with creations of humans, therefore the Universe has a designer. I think otherwise, that there is an overarching structure which we ignore when making the extrapolation. I am intent on dwelling on that structure. And consequences of that structure give rise to the appearance of designs. You might ask, whether the structure was ultimately responsible for human design which is true, but for the sake of the discussion and convenience, I tie design to designer. And an entity that looks like a design would be said to have the appearance of a design. First of, to say that because we don't know what design constraints the physical laws have shows that the universe isn't designed is absurd mainly because design constraints are not a necessary component of design rather they are external things that inspire amendments to an already conceptualized design. Please expatiate with examples. Secondly, even if I was to assume (though I am not) that the fact that we don't know the design constraints of physical laws shows that it is undesigned, the fact still remains (and you admit this fact) that fishes, trees, planets, galaxies, supernovas e.t.c. appear designed and equally have the universe as their platform and the physical laws as their constraints just like human designed things such as aeroplanes, houses, oil rigs e.t.c. 1 Like |
Re: Three Arguments For God's Existence by thehomer: 3:55pm On Jul 21, 2015 |
MrAnony1: That is not name dropping, that is a scientific theory and I'm not about to give you a science lesson for free especially when you can read up on it online. MrAnony1: Again, it is a scientific theory. Denying a scientific theory doesn't make it stop being the case. MrAnony1: Saying information must have meaning is a category error. Unless what you actually mean is that for someone to consider something as information, they have to understand it i.e for information to be information, it has to mean something to someone. Meaning is a subjective phenomenon that requires a certain degree of brain complexity. Computers don't yet have minds. Humans also receive data and arrange is based on certain mechanistic settings and output the rearranged data. The meaning again is a subjective component that not all humans are capable of. MrAnony1: The way I see it, information is subjective and so depends on whether or not the recipient can understand what they're receiving. Since computers can assemble data and present it to humans in a way that they understand, they've created information that humans. MrAnony1: No. MrAnony1: I don't know. MrAnony1: Yes. MrAnony1: I gave you something better. The example of a GPS device. MrAnony1: For that, you need some education on psychology. And I won't be giving you free psychology lessons online. You can read up on it. I can give you links if you want. MrAnony1: You didn't answer my question. It relevance was based on your ideas of minds existing without brains. Those minds are produced by the brains. MrAnony1: You didn't answer my question. Please answer it then we'll get to the problems with a mind just picking a brain to affect. In my view, minds don't pick brains to develop with. MrAnony1: Please answer my question. It has implications on our justice system. In my view, minds cannot switch brains. MrAnony1: Please answer my question. It has implications on how minds are supposed to work. In my view, minds stop when a person dies. They can even stop before death is confirmed. MrAnony1: Please answer my question. It has implications in our justice system and on certain philosophical ideas. In my view, there are multiple minds. MrAnony1: They have a lot to do with the premises being discussed and I answered my part. Please do your part by answering them. MrAnony1: I didn't deny that either. Just that the information is a human abstraction of the actual things the DNA does. MrAnony1: Websites aren't organisms so your analogy simply fails. MrAnony1: Your persistent assertion simply shows you have a problem with the English language. MrAnony1: That is a lesson on genetics that I won't be giving you for free online. Here's an [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription_%28genetics%29]article[/url] on the first step of the process to get you started. MrAnony1: It has everything to do with it. It denies the undirected nature of evolution. Please answer the question. MrAnony1: No I'm not. MrAnony1: Now he denies what he initially accepted when I raised questions with his position. Here I'll ask you directly are we working with the premise that your God has a body or not? If not, then what is the basis of your design argument? MrAnony1: Actually, all the questions I asked had good reasons and could have been answered in one or two short sentences if you actually knew what you were talking about. As usual, I answered the questions you asked but you didn't answer mine. Please make sure you answer them in your next response. MrAnony1: The link says nothing about your God revealing himself to me like people revealed themselves to me. It is the basis for believing in the existence of your friends. Is your God your friend? Or are you saying your God can't reveal himself to me the way other people have? MrAnony1: You never accepted it for the sake of argument? Well I already provided a link showing where you did. MrAnony1: I want to know whether or not your God exists. What is the relevance of where or how I sought him? Would that somehow stop you from showing him to me if he exists? Or will that stop him from showing himself to me? 2 Likes |
Re: Three Arguments For God's Existence by thehomer: 3:56pm On Jul 21, 2015 |
MrAnony1: You need to tell me whether or not you're actually ignorant about this question. After all, you may just be out to waste my time. So, are you actually ignorant on this? |
Re: Three Arguments For God's Existence by thehomer: 3:59pm On Jul 21, 2015 |
MrAnony1: Something always existed. MrAnony1: I don't know. What properties do you think this first cause has? 1 Like |
Re: Three Arguments For God's Existence by thehomer: 4:05pm On Jul 21, 2015 |
MrAnony1: Wikipedia: You should look out for traits common to both an ancestral group and its derived descendant group. Now do you know how to tell whether or not a transition has occurred? You keep asking questions whose answers are easily found online. Why do you keep doing that? 1 Like |
Re: Three Arguments For God's Existence by thehomer: 4:06pm On Jul 21, 2015 |
MrAnony1: Can your DNA type on a keyboard? 1 Like |
Re: Three Arguments For God's Existence by thehomer: 4:09pm On Jul 21, 2015 |
MrAnony1: Where does it show my fear? MrAnony1: I'm sure you can read. If you don't think any line there was insulting then that's a testament to your dishonesty. MrAnony1: There are three sentences there. Which ones do you disagree with whose answers you can't find online for yourself? 1 Like |
Re: Three Arguments For God's Existence by thehomer: 4:17pm On Jul 21, 2015 |
MrAnony1: The theory of evolution explains why appearing designed doesn't mean they were designed in the way human artifacts are designed. MrAnony1: More empty rubbish. Even if I can't explain what the theory of evolution is, it still doesn't lift your burden of proof. As I said, the theory of evolution explains what you think is a problem. As I've said before, I won't be giving free lessons online. If you think the theory of evolution is wrong, then it is up to you to show that it is wrong given the fact that it has multiple lines of evidence. MrAnony1: And you're a ridiculous character. I've told you again and again that the theory of evolution answers the question you're asking. If you wish to refute that theory, then you have to understand it well enough to refute it but I won't give you free lessons online. Especially when the resources are available online. My aim is not to disprove design, but to tell you why it is the case that living organisms appear designed. MrAnony1: I've done my part. It is up to you to do your part. Secondly, even if I can't do my part, you still have to give your explanation. |
Re: Three Arguments For God's Existence by thehomer: 4:30pm On Jul 21, 2015 |
MrAnony1: If those two things can be synonymous. MrAnony1: The physical dimension would be the appropriate signals in the brain. What is your point with this question? MrAnony1: Where you said hunger pangs weren't a physical property. As usual, I've answered your question but you didn't answer my simple question. Here it is again. Is length non-physical? MrAnony1: Because you only gave examples of physical objects. Please answer my question. MrAnony1: Here are the questions again. Please tell me, is the stomach matter? Do hunger pangs describe the stomach under those conditions? MrAnony1: This is why you should answer my questions when I ask them rather than just throwing about questions and irrelevant statements. Here are the questions again. Don't you agree that the mind is non-physical? Do you mean that hunger pangs are an effect of the mind not the physical body? MrAnony1: You merely claimed they were evasions while ignoring the actual questions I asked. Oh yes you may consider me the enforcer. 1 Like |
Re: Three Arguments For God's Existence by thehomer: 4:34pm On Jul 21, 2015 |
KingEbukasBlog: What makes you think the religious answers are correct? 1 Like |
Re: Three Arguments For God's Existence by thehomer: 4:37pm On Jul 21, 2015 |
davodyguy: It isn't simply that the Bible isn't a scientific source, but that it also presents wrong information. What happens when scientific information contradicts the information in the Bible? Does that mean the information in the Bible is wrong? 1 Like |
Re: Three Arguments For God's Existence by davodyguy: 4:41pm On Jul 21, 2015 |
Re: Three Arguments For God's Existence by AllNaijaBlogger(m): 7:10pm On Jul 21, 2015 |
thehomer: First, red blood cells need DNA at the first stage of their life cycle. Clearly, you are ignorant of this. If your DNA disappears, a significant amount of your red blood cells will malfunction or die. Secondly, radiation/cancer messes up your DNA, if the damage is so much that your DNA fails to repair itself properly. Now imagine if the dna disappears totally. Imagine if most of your organs were malfunctioning because its cells have all lost DNA. Multiple organ failure is death within seconds or minutes, especially if the organs that fail are 3 or more. In this case, your brain, kidney, liver, skin etc will all be affected. thehomer: Yes, just make empty declarations. Please don't waste my time with your feeble attempts at dodging the facts. I did not misuse the word and I gave a dictionary definition with examples. Please. thehomer: @ bold- what a marvelous strawman! Common sense should tell you two things First, you cannot as a Nigerian, claim to know English more than English people and their dictionaries. I gave a common example of a phrase used in UK/US and you are now claiming that they are wrong. Not only that, I backed it up with a dictionary definition. Mr Homer, please learn to humble yourself before your humiliate yourself. Secondly, a normally healthy person could die anytime within one second to 70 years. Death with such a person cannot be said to be imminent. However, a person with terminal cancer will die in the nearest future. Death is both certain and imminent. There is a vast difference. thehomer: What is wrong with you? thehomer: Does your husband/wife give you raw garri to eat with soup? Or can you mould raw garri into a bowl shape? Please, think before you type thehomer: |
Re: Three Arguments For God's Existence by KingEbukasBlog(m): 7:51pm On Jul 21, 2015 |
thehomer: Because they are correct , what makes you think scientific answers are correct ? |
Re: Three Arguments For God's Existence by KingEbukasBlog(m): 8:01pm On Jul 21, 2015 |
thehomer: What are your hands made of ? |
Re: Three Arguments For God's Existence by KingEbukasBlog(m): 8:02pm On Jul 21, 2015 |
thehomer: Where are your hands today ? |
Re: Three Arguments For God's Existence by KingEbukasBlog(m): 8:17pm On Jul 21, 2015 |
kay17 : Do you read http://phys.org/ ... because its becoming very obvious that your history on Nairaland can be traced to the comment section of that site |
Re: Three Arguments For God's Existence by KingEbukasBlog(m): 8:22pm On Jul 21, 2015 |
@ dalaman : R1. Apparently , you still don't understand what roles Religion and science play in life and you are so obstinate about learning something new . Now , that's your problem . R2. where is the location of the amputee |
Re: Three Arguments For God's Existence by dalaman: 8:35pm On Jul 21, 2015 |
KingEbukasBlog: I have already pointed out the role of religion and science, they are parallel to each other. R2. where is the location of the amputee Abuja. 1 Like |
Re: Three Arguments For God's Existence by KingEbukasBlog(m): 8:36pm On Jul 21, 2015 |
davodyguy: Nice one ! Maybe this could help dalaman understand the role of science and religion in life . And do you think there is life outside earth ? I believe God has other plans for the universe as regards to intelligent life outside man . What do you think ? |
Re: Three Arguments For God's Existence by KingEbukasBlog(m): 8:42pm On Jul 21, 2015 |
dalaman: I never said they were alike . I just said they play different roles in life . You are allowing science play both roles and whatever "explanation" you gave is a disaster . " Religion is fictitious " Religion is this or that yet you couldn't answer two good questions I asked you . For your own good understand that science can't answer all questions concerning life . Abuja. Can you get him to Lagos ? |
Re: Three Arguments For God's Existence by dalaman: 8:49pm On Jul 21, 2015 |
KingEbukasBlog: Please is that really his answer to why the universe exist? Because the God of the bible uses things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise. Is that truly the reason why the universe exist? You guys are just to hilarious. 1 Like |
Re: Three Arguments For God's Existence by KingEbukasBlog(m): 8:51pm On Jul 21, 2015 |
dalaman: Asking him to explain would have been a much better comment , honestly . |
Re: Three Arguments For God's Existence by dalaman: 8:54pm On Jul 21, 2015 |
KingEbukasBlog: I have stated that their roles are parallel. Can you get him to Lagos ? And if it fails which I know it will, will you pay back the transportation cost. |
Re: Three Arguments For God's Existence by KingEbukasBlog(m): 9:00pm On Jul 21, 2015 |
dalaman: Honestly people who combine both turn out just fine And if it fails which I know it will, will you pay back the transportation cost. You are not serious then |
Re: Three Arguments For God's Existence by dalaman: 9:08pm On Jul 21, 2015 |
KingEbukasBlog: If you say so. You are not serious then I just don't want to waste my money on something I know will turn out to be negative I will look for a bible believing amputee that truly believe that Jesus can heal him/her that lives in Lagos and send to you. You will pray for him/her and once his/her amputated limbs is restored You can post the before and after pics for us to see here. |
Re: Three Arguments For God's Existence by KingEbukasBlog(m): 9:14pm On Jul 21, 2015 |
dalaman: Again ... You are not serious . So you would say its photoshop ? Bring that guy to Lagos or forget it ! |
Re: Three Arguments For God's Existence by KingEbukasBlog(m): 9:16pm On Jul 21, 2015 |
@ thehomer : What is the universe ? Define universe ... |
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