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Billyonaire:Confucian? |
Billyonaire:Are you a scientologist? |
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Anas09:Good question....humans did not evolve from the apes we see today...evidence from genetics...paleontology,biochemistry and many more suggests humans and current apes share a common ancestor 6 million years ago of which homo sapiens were derived....infact before this waa known....carl linnaeus(father of taxonomy) placed humans under the homonoideae family and prompted people to further research why man was morphologically and anatomically similar to other primates....as taxonomy grew on more knowledge and genetics was formulated it was revealed that humans share a large percentage of dna among chimps and less with all life on earth...if you want to understand this further I can cite you to educative papers and video tutorials... Note: Carl linnaeus lived before evolution was proposed and was the christian whom first placed humans alongside other primates...evidence vindicated his findings... and people today feel offended at the mere mention of being related to any other animal,some even citing it to slavery as though it meant that when it doesn't |
cloudstar:Despite the elementary definition you have of science you still don't get it.... It's good you can spell ignorance - you seem to be familiar with it..It's sad you don't get simple tautology, what science is and the difference between a "primordial ripple" and a "primordial universe"....your lack of coherent phrasing is also a deep concern Cha- why do you insist on displaying your ignorance. These were your words: Nothing in science....is taken as "true". Instead of you to admit you over-spoke; you are here trying to play semantics with your words. If the 1st example I gave is not true, can you please falsify it. Perhaps you are the only human that doesn't have a brain since that might not be a truth statement according to your science. You are pitiful manlol! Typical butturt theist.....You don't even know the difference between saying something is "not true" compared to "not known if it is/was always true"....we use those axioms of science to presuppose natural laws for past and future events....under that guideline we do not know and we cannot know if the reality we experience is real....that is why every theory is subject to revision and the fact that a theory works does not make it true.....we look for predictive power in scientific theories and how well they can account for existing data..Science works by building a different set of models to account for a phenomena and passes them through the scientific method....those that fail are either modified or discarded,depending on the data collected.. Do you know the difference between making a truth statement and been uncertain? I am aware that science claims uncertainty but your statement that nothing is science is true is incorrect. I don't understand why you insist on playing pretend#facepalm I'm always blown away by your stupidity.....if you aren't certain,can you say definitively if it is true?..or say it's likely true? I can't speak of all religions. Christianity doesn't claim to know all the answers. It bothers on theology and in case you don't know, theology is the queen of the sciences. It provides "beyond reasonable doubt" proof to me. So, please cross-check your references and information again.lol...theology queen of sciences?! perhaps you don't know that it's own view of reality is much less capable of predicting anything about the natural world..in hindu mythology the earth is a flat disk perched on a turtles back.. ![]() ThanksAtleast you admitted your folly here... Coming from someone who thinks humans having brains is not true in scienceComing from someone who doesn't realise that the philosophy of science says nothing about you(nor any of your parts) really existing due to a starting point(realism)... Lets use epistemology for instance....we may use epistemology to infer a deductive argument to prove something and as inductive reasoning is stating something being likely or not given certain assumptions and since science is a way to formulate your assumptions, observe, and infer from your assumptions what is likely,if you assume there is a reality and it is knowable through observation that is at least partly reliable, you can actually infer quite a lot of things. A lot of these findings are well documented and easy to verify. I cannot think that there are better ways to reason, especially if you want to understand what we call reality as good as possible,than science and epistemology... Nothing can prove something definitely (including this statement)... so accept it and go with the amount of certainty that can be given (through the methods of your choice, but I recommend the rational scientific way). Science use of nothing in other areas is quite clear as compared to Lawrence Krauss term of "nothing" when he refers to the cosmos. You seem insisting on Krauss definition of what nothing means. What doesn't nothing mean in mathematics?Science and mathematic require terminolgy to be defined or quantified(if possible both)so as to represent data....in mathematic's "nothing" can be defined as "0" You can see that "nothing" in mathematics is definitive and not ambiguous..and from that definitive term alone we can express many things with "nothin" I.e 10,100,1000 etc And I am not insisting on krauss definition' as much as citing it as to why we say the universe "emerged from nothing" in respect to what "nothing" has been demonstrated to always be something So, Neil Degrasse Tyson definition of nothing exceeds or replaces Krauss definition of nothing in the same video abi or any of the other scientists? Dude, do you see how stupid that statement sounds! It's what I have been saying from jump-start. Nothing means something to these folks - they can't prove it but somehow it does.You're definitely butturt That statement is stup.id because you made it....you seem to misunderstand citations too.. I cited him because of that statement...the closer we get to the definition of "nothing" the more we realise its actually something..For example, it's like asking what is darkness? It's the same thing you are doing here - you are trying to define nothing as something. It's similar as saying, I don't know what it is but it could be somethingDarkness can be expressed in many ways I.e a lack of information cast by a 3D object(in the case of shadows) in realtime or a lack of perceivable light from a light source ![]() If you took time to read what I posted, you will see that I wasn't referring to the multi-verse. But you assumed I am referring to the multi-verse. I take God beg you, read it again and tell me how you came to the conclusion I was talking about the multi-verse?Here's a simplified version of why you were still talking about the mutiverse that even you should understand...Bicep2 is evidence of primordial ripples....primordial ripples are gravitational waves....gravitational waves are evidence of neighboring universes.... So what exactly do you expect me to think when you kept talking about the "multverse theory" when you've mistaken "primordial ripples" for "primordial universes" Who said it wasn't. You are the one claiming a position of not been objectivelol! typical theist,when you back them to a corner they begin to pretend and accuse you of what they're doing... ![]() How am i not objective as compared to this your comment below that screams subjectivity. ![]() theology is the queen of the sciences. |
chiedu7:And how do you know that? |
padeolu:Can you cite me to a paper or study that proves this? |
herald9:Yup!...it's a big conspiracy to stop people from finding out an idea that has 0 evidence ![]() Since you've brought up this camera issue...I want to ask...If the eye could cause so much inspiration,that an idea came forth ,which later gave birth to a design(camera)... Do you still think the eye is just a minor organ which came to be by chance?You want to appear as a deist but you clearly stink of theism.. where is the logical connection for your "it inspires x,so how can it come by chance?"(you'd have to put a theist hat on) ...you have to give us how you deduced it coming alternatively... And the fact that an eye inspired an invention says nothing about the origin of the eye....if sand dunes inspires architects to construct a building reminiscent of sand dunes does that suddenly disprove what we know about them? ![]() 'His' works testifies of his existence"his works" that term right there is pure theism(right down to the gender ) and it's use is to label things what you feel it to be... i.e flower looks pretty, therefore "god did it"...lions kill people,"sin/the devil had a hand in it... ![]() Just imagine you were cleaning your room...you now picked a moth-eaten book with the back gone so that you can't see the author's name... Does it mean the author doesn't/didn't exist?This is your revised version of the watchmaker analogy and it is flawed for the same reason the original is....I don't have to presuppose anything about a nameless book because by definition a book is for writing and you don't need faith to believe that now do you?....ironically you use faith to believe a "creator" exists but we don't use that to know writers exist..lol …It was just a citation to my comment there... |
padeolu:lol....cows? I know methane is also a green house gas but common...haven't we been responsible for most of the current cattle breeds?...herego more cow droppings=more methane emissions.... ![]() |
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timonski:This is what I keep trying to tell people... "nothing" as commonly understood is non-existent..or atleast we haven't found a case where anything is absolutely "nothing" |
padeolu:Do you have any comment on this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWXoRSIxyIU |
herald9:It's a great big equivocation fallacy....the fact that something can be thought of as another does not magically turn it into what it is thought of.. The fact that an eye is reminiscent of a camera does not make the eye a camera....they are two separate entities and until one can provide a case as to how the universe ought to be "undesigned" they have no case... an example is you should know what "right" is before calling things "left".. So that's how we came about the idea of a Creator, which only varies with that of a theist because we believe the Creator doesn't interfere in the mechanics of the universe...I know the gist of deism...just answer the question....how is a "creator" deduced if one can't differentiate it ever being there to begin with if no trace can be found of it's existence and it can't be separated from natural processes? ![]() From further studying, I've come to discover the shortcomings of Deism, Cause I couldn't see why a God would create a universe he can't participate in...True,although i see why it is mostly preferred among academics Or did he create the universe to watch it as fish in the fishbowl?Many rich ideas stem from deism...for instance... What would seem to us as a deistic entity might in fact have a purpose for the universe...albeit not for our existence...but the creation of living entities like us may have been an inescapable by-product of the universe creation'... And for all we know a deistic entity might in fact be using the universe for study of it's own environment...not by interaction of the universe but through observation... The problem is that all those examples of a deistic entity have as much the same evidence,0... And since I cannot come in terms with the explanation from Atheism and the beliefs of the Theist....I would love to quote Blaize Pascal who posited thatPascal's wager is about theism not deism(although it expresses it a bit remotely) and so it is not applicable to defend your deism nor is it true even of itself because belief is for one not a choice...you genuinely have to be convinced and again you stand to lose alot of things in theism best summarized under my post here https://www.nairaland.com/1930863/letter-atheists-pics#26819243 and even still deism has a large score who don't subscribe to a "mandatory belief" but still hold the view plausible... |
herald9 if nothing can be said about the belief in the "creator" that you believe to have started the universe,nor can it be discerned from natural processes...then what is the difference between it being non-existent? ....or is it the belief that makes it existent? |
cloudstar:Never argued with you...you just misunderstand everything... Good - so basically the science that led to confirming the universe was eternal is the same science suggesting that the universe popped out of nothing? In your case - nothing means somethingscience is a self-correcting process and the "nothing" I refer to is explicable to whom defines it and what it's used for... It is at this point that I realize you just want to talk because you have a mouth.A mouth to stop willful ignorance... You have basically said that a bunch of "intellectuals" can claim any nonsense as scientific and put the burden on others to disprove it. For your information, there are absolute proven in science, in other words, there are truths in science. So, for you to suggest otherwise, I am inclined to question your sanity. Examples for absolutes or true sciencewow!....just wow! lol! So you actually thought science gives "truths".....science is based on areas of philosophy like empiricism,realism,cartesian philosophy etcetera and under those axioms we can never know for certain if the observation you gave of #1 was/is always true...for all you know it began to occur that way when it was first viewed...the same goes for all your examples... This is the reason why no scientist will say "science has all the answers" nor that "it's proven beyond reasonable doubt" otherwise it becomes a dogmatic religion...because of the fact that we can't really know anything to be true .. So if you're wondering why we use science if we can't really know anything for certain it's because it's pragmatic and that is what I personally love about science..we don't have all the answers nor claim to,like religion... ![]() My mistake, the primordial ripples in spacetime is also used to support the multi-verse view.Note,"primordial ripples" is not the same thing as "primordial universe"...the former is of ancient gravitational waves propagated by the big bang and the latter is the universe at pre-big bang.. I understand there can be different proofs. I am not referring to proof such as "beyond reasonable doubt". I am referring to scientific proof. An observable, repeatable processes, that can be tested an replicated.of what exactly?..because I'm yet to see you grasp or even discuss in an educated manner.. ![]() Why should nothing as used in Lawrence Krauss physics when explaining the universe be different from the nothing used in normal science?Wrong again! First there is no dichotomy between lawrence Krauss' term of "nothing" and it's use... Science works with terms that can be defined or numerically given for precision and to avoid ambiguity...."nothing" as commonly understood cannot be quantified let alone demonstrated to have been the state of the universe Does Krauss get to change the meaning of nothing to support his argument? For example, the null set is empty - it contains nothing - no bdy argues that empty means there is something in the set only that we are not seeing it? The laws of physics are the same whether it's here on earth or whether it's the same in the cosmos. The variables may be different but they are the same.Read the above. Scientist have different meaning of what "nothing" means to themI have the video of the debate...it was really intriguing for some of the greatest minds to be discussing such a topic,anyway if you had read you're own article...you'd have noted this comment by neil degrasse tyson " Ultimately, the definition of nothing may just be an ever-moving target, shifting with every scientific revolution as new insights show us what we thought was nothing is really something." "Nothing" (as commonly understood) has not been established as the actual fate of anything... Did you consider BICEP2’s results in that they predict that the Universe would have received large jolts during the cosmic inflation phase, which would have pushed it into the other valley of the Higgs field within a fraction of a second. And that would have collapsed the entire nascent Universe in a Big Crunch. It’s possible that BICEP2’s findings were actually caused by similar polarisation effects that can be generated by nearby dust in our own galaxy, a point that the researchers conceded was possible in their study. You ignored that and you are waiting for another Theory abi?Dimwit you are still referring to your straw man (multi-verse theory) haven't you read any of my comments? I mean if simple tautology confuses you from the beginning,then you get confused by terminology (thinking primordial ripples equate to a primordial universe) and then not understanding the axioms of science, then I really don't think you have any business discussing any of this...you'll just end up being called out on your "knowledge"... ![]() Stop playing this scientific subjectivity crap. You are giving yourself an escape clause. I gave you examples above where we have scientific absolutes i.e. truths. Whether you decide to hold it or not is irrelevant.Science is objective if you fail to grasp this there's nothing I can do.. I didn't deny that I made a mistake in categorizing what you were referring to as the Multiverse Theory.Then why are you still using the straw man if you don't want to be called a troll? ![]() |
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truthman2012:which means? |
truthman2012:You'll find a "testimony" in anything(whether good or bad) because you believe everything is one... 1st Thessalonians 5:18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. So it doesn't surprise me if you have a "testimony" for any situation... |
truthman2012:I commend intellectual honesty whenever I see it...christian,muslim,hindu,atheist etc...frosbel has been intellectually honest enough to review(albeit to myself not entirely)his worldview and has come across profound discoveries.. A common christian would think an atheist like me is just "angry at god" because of a sad event or just rebelling or "possessed" or just came across a website making a case against a belief and I fell for it... Truth is I was a staunch christian.. I had even decided to become a pastor and so I decided to go study "the word" historically....and it's origin and it's canon...what I found was nothing the common preacher was preaching behind the altar but the opposite....so it was either to be intellectually honest about it or find a way to convince myself no matter what. |
truthman2012:All the people you mentioned above and those dreams are still claimed in the bible so how does that make it true if you're using the bible to confirm itself? |
UyiIredia:so has no one prayed sincerely for cancer to be cured worldwide? ![]() |
truthman2012:So? If i dream about anything and it comes true...does that automatically mean anything I dream about is true, even unicorns? |
cloudstar:Another dimwit confused by simple tautology,at what point did I remotely address the "multi-verse theory"... If you don't get something,ask before giving out your straw man... |
cloudstar:No, you still don't... It was science that claimed our universe was eternal decades ago, wasn't it;Yes it was was that theory true even though it was the view held by science?Nothing in science....is taken as "true",all we have is an approximation of knowledge based on what facts lead to.... The universe was considered eternal based on the acquired knowledge until more knowledge led to a different view My point is it's exactly what it is - a theory. It's when we have hard empirical evidence that we can test and verify that things begin to make sense. The theory you have is just another theory like the multi-universe.No it is not..if you had read all the few sources I pointed out instead of concluding on what I was saying you might have understood me.... in fact the video I linked up is of a short explanation of what inflation corrected in the big bang theory inwhich alan guth was interviewed and he explained how the primordial universe was before the big bang and what his postulates led to.. And before-inflation is still referred to as "primordial universe" it's inter-changeable but sadly you thought I was referring to the "multiverse theory" I guess religion does reta.rds minds ![]() Did you or did you not ask for the definition of nothing. I don't understand how the same definition that applies to physics or mathematics as nothing all of a sudden becomes irrelevant when we are discussing the cosmosSome terminology differs especially when given to lay men like yourself...."proof" for example is commonly understood differently to common folk when compared to how it is regarded in science as a deductive argument for a statement mathematically speaking... At no point in time was it established that a common understanding of "nothing" was the state of everything...and when physicists say lawrence Krauss and stephen hawkin relay the universe emerging from "nothing" they define it differently...i will provide a video of lawrence krauss explaining this personally below... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EilZ4VY5Vs That is your problem. You have given your life over to "experts" without any kind of hard evidence.How many people do I have to explain this to over and over again....i don't have to believe anything for it to be true nor have to support any theory for it to be legitimate....scientific theories are passed through the scientific method and are set as the single consistent model of understanding when it meets it's predictions to a substantial amount and to which no other theory best accounts for.... Take for example the the theory of gravity, did it make predictions-yes, did it account for everything-no, it couldn't account for mercury's orbit...but until that discovery it had made sufficient predictions to be relevant...and that flaw was discovered as always through the scientific method and a new theory(relativity) accounted for it... If Hawkins or Krauss came out tomorrow and said, oops - we were uncertain about our hypothesis regarding the beginning of the Big Bang or what state the universe was in before the Big Bang - what then? Your view will automatically change? Didn't Einstein hold the same view that our universe was eternal until Hubble disproved his theory by providing factual evidence that could be observed?I don't hold any views on a scientific consensus, how are you failing to get that....science is the best method as far as we can tell for understanding the world we live in...that is demonstrable by its advent. If the big bang will ever be shown false it would have to be at the methids used to deduce it...not misused elementary notions you and your elk keep posing.. Scientist will tell you that the theory makes sense and tell you why it makes sense but no one has observed any other universe apart from ours. Here is what Princeton University theoretical physicist Paul Steinhardt had to say: "The multiverse functions here as an all-purpose excuse for not being able to explain anything about particle physics"Nice straw man....it would be expected of you when to simply understand simple tautology is a problem... Again your jargon above would have made sense if I was referring to the "multiverse theory" ![]() The same thing I am talking about. Bros - don't jump on the band wagon until factual proof has been given. You and I are seeing the same evidence but arriving at different conclusions. You need to be objective - let all the facts come out before you conclude what happened. Don't let your atheism stand in the way. Good luck#facepalm it is either you're really a huge dimwit or a troll....when did I tell you that I accept the "multiverse theory"? ![]() Intellectual dishonesty is what I can't stand....and you are simply full of it... |
frosbel:it's hard to find intellectually honest christians these days. |
frosbel:you've already been labelled a backslider though ![]() |
ProphetUdeme: yeah,and a christian boy also allegedly saw "allah" and it's "real" too.. |
slyfox5555:You don't get it... When anyone doesn't conform to your way of thinking - they are labelled uneducated. Imagine the people that claimed that our universe had a beginning decades ago - they were laughed at, called uneducated and were irrational.What your claiming would have been true if I had an ideology that I was giving but I didn't give you an ideology so its a little too soon to throw accusations of bigotry when all I have you were scientific theories.. Bros, nothing means the absence of anything and/or everything. Taking our universe as an example, it means no matter, no radiation, no energy, no spatial curvature; we can imagine existing in completely empty, void space. Whether you decide to call that something, na your wahala be that.And its benalvino2 all over again.....can you give me a time when the universe had your definition of nothing that the scientific community agrees on.... Go grab a book was a good advice for you but you still swim in your self perceived "intelligence."... I don't make any claim to know the uncertain. What we know said our universe had a beginning. You are are the one trying to explain what nothing meansHere lies the epitome of your own folly.....you have a view that everyone uses the same definition to characterize a phenomenon....when Stephen hawkin or Laurence krauss is talking about the universe emerging from nothing....they aren't using the term the same way common folk like you and me understand it to be.....if you did your research that wouldn't be a problem for you....atall.. Really! - the same cocky attitude atheist have. Let me celebrate in my uncertainty; I don't claim to know everything but I know much about our universe to know that it had a beginning, it wasn't eternal#facepalm... I guess comprehension skills have dropped in nigeria..... my "cocky attitude" was for correcting you and thus has nothing to do with my atheism.....nice straw man though. |
RikoduoSennin:You'll still have to depend on your senses to believe god doesn't lie by reading the bible and having a subjective presupposition about it being true... ![]() And are you a creationist? |
herald9:Smh.... ![]() |
herald9:Before,I used to try to communicate without insults,but when someone is behaving like a shi.tty dimwit...I just have to call them out on it.... And the bolded gives an airtight case...what atheist believes any of that,dimwit.. ![]() Is this the height religion has re.tard.ed you to? |
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