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Re: What Is Nature Exactly? by UyiIredia(m): 11:44am On Mar 17, 2016
plaetton:

Lol.
And we should just ignore mathematics , and take your word for it ?
Brilliant, simply brilliant.
Mathematicians don't say the crap you've been spitting out.
Re: What Is Nature Exactly? by KingEbukaNaija: 11:53am On Mar 17, 2016
UyiIredia:
I suggest people stop taking plaetton seriously. His talk of chaos is trash. As Ive said there is a limit to what chaos makes and to suggest that all nature is birthed from chaos is simply foolish.

Well he resorted to 'order from chaos' because he felt it would make it impossible for God to exist . And even sef 'order from chaos' could have been the design concept

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Re: What Is Nature Exactly? by KingEbukaNaija: 11:54am On Mar 17, 2016
Weah96:



Nah. Human beings in our current form are generously a 200K yr old species. The universe is billions of years old, and has witnessed the deaths of many stars and galaxies over that period.

You're telling me that all of that happened just so that Kingebukasblog could one day ask silly questions on the internet after eating his ogbono soup?

How does this in any way address my post

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Re: What Is Nature Exactly? by plaetton: 12:03pm On Mar 17, 2016
UyiIredia:


Mathematicians don't say the crap you've been spitting out.

Lol.

Mathematician?

How did that come into this discussion ?

See what I mean ?
How possible is it have a discussion on existential issues with simpletons who are aversive and hostile to scientific rationalism ?

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Re: What Is Nature Exactly? by Kay17: 12:08pm On Mar 17, 2016
Nature, in the broadest sense, is the natural, physical, or material world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature
Re: What Is Nature Exactly? by plaetton: 12:12pm On Mar 17, 2016
UyiIredia:
I suggest people stop taking plaetton seriously. His talk of chaos is trash. As Ive said there is a limit to what chaos makes and to suggest that all nature is birthed from chaos is simply foolish.

What are you still doing in this discussion ?

You gave yourself a Technical Knock Out when you stated ,
" there is a limit to the ORDER that CHAOS can make ".

I rest my case.

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Re: What Is Nature Exactly? by Kay17: 12:19pm On Mar 17, 2016
Mranony1


Is Nature intelligent? I would presume intelligence is a preserve of life. Only living things are capable of intelligence in all of human experience.

Are goats a consequence of happy accidents? What is an accident other than unplanned undesirable unintended consequences. Unplanned and unintended by whom?! Now if you notice keenly, the language which you use poisons your thoughts. If you consider events within Nature as unintended or unplanned, you are implicitly suggesting an intelligent designer whose plans have gone AWOL.

When you remove words like happy accidents, you tend to see better.

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Re: What Is Nature Exactly? by Kay17: 12:33pm On Mar 17, 2016
UyiIredia:


An extrapolation you simply aren't willing to make because you are blinded by materialistic bias.

Your reasoning is similar to this:

A dove flies, therefore penguins fly!

You have to recognise the limitations of your arguments. Humans can create cars and ships because we through our intellect, are able to grasp the workings of the Universe. We understand the physics and chemistry of the Universe. We know how time and light works. We know what gases do and are. We understand laws of motion and thermodynamics. Without these knowledge, we wouldn't build anything despite our intellect.

Information and coding lend us knowledge of physical relationships. We learnt them because they surround us in Nature already.

Now if you consider God just prior to the beginning of the Universe, there must have been total emptiness. Total Nothing. No rules or information. Intelligence would have been abjectly useless. God would require magic rather than intelligence.

In conclusion, intelligence needs a pre-existing framework as a precondition to work.

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Re: What Is Nature Exactly? by johnydon22(m): 12:38pm On Mar 17, 2016
Kay17:


Your reasoning is similar to this:

A dove flies, therefore penguins fly!

You have to recognise the limitations of your arguments. Humans can create cars and ships because we through our intellect, are able to grasp the workings of the Universe. We understand the physics and chemistry of the Universe. We know how time and light works. We know what gases do and are. We understand laws of motion and thermodynamics. Without these knowledge, we wouldn't build anything despite our intellect.

Information and coding lend us knowledge of physical relationships. We learnt them because they surround us in Nature already.

Now if you consider God just prior to the beginning of the Universe, there must have been total emptiness. Total Nothing. No rules or information. Intelligence would have been abjectly useless. God would require magic rather than intelligence.

In conclusion, intelligence needs a pre-existing framework as a precondition to work.

Absolutely brilliant !!! Intelligence is a product of already existing inspirations, Nothingness suggests no intelligence but abracadabra..!!!

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Re: What Is Nature Exactly? by UyiIredia(m): 1:11pm On Mar 17, 2016
Kay17:


Your reasoning is similar to this:

A dove flies, therefore penguins fly!

You have to recognise the limitations of your arguments. Humans can create cars and ships because we through our intellect, are able to grasp the workings of the Universe. We understand the physics and chemistry of the Universe. We know how time and light works. We know what gases do and are. We understand laws of motion and thermodynamics. Without these knowledge, we wouldn't build anything despite our intellect.

Information and coding lend us knowledge of physical relationships. We learnt them because they surround us in Nature already.

Now if you consider God just prior to the beginning of the Universe, there must have been total emptiness. Total Nothing. No rules or information. Intelligence would have been abjectly useless. God would require magic rather than intelligence.

In conclusion, intelligence needs a pre-existing framework as a precondition to work.

Just as intellect is required to understand preexisting framework, Intellect is required for their making. You can't preclude the idea of a non-contingent intellect simply because of the way ours work. It's insane.
Re: What Is Nature Exactly? by UyiIredia(m): 1:13pm On Mar 17, 2016
plaetton:


Lol.

Mathematician?

How did that come into this discussion ?

See what I mean ?
How possible is it have a discussion on existential issues with simpletons who are aversive and hostile to scientific rationalism ?

Evidence of your empty headedness. Asking how mathematician came into the discussion when you mentioned mathematics.
Re: What Is Nature Exactly? by Kay17: 2:05pm On Mar 17, 2016
UyiIredia:


Just as intellect is required to understand preexisting framework, Intellect is required for their making. You can't preclude the idea of a non-contingent intellect simply because of the way ours work. It's insane.

Now you are seeing the weaknesses of extrapolation.

That aside, could you explain how intelligence rather than imagination can be responsible creation from nothingness?

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Re: What Is Nature Exactly? by Nobody: 2:22pm On Mar 17, 2016
KingEbukaNaija:


Well he resorted to 'order from chaos' because he felt it would make it impossible for God to exist . And even sef 'order from chaos' could have been the design concept
Yeah. God always fits.

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Re: What Is Nature Exactly? by Joshthefirst(m): 3:03pm On Mar 17, 2016
plaetton:


It's quite a difficult challenge debating or discussing with someone who is aversive to science and scientific facts.

Unfortunately it is also difficult for me to discuss with someone who doesn't know the meaning of the word fact. I am not your english teacher.

plaetton:
The Earth has endured numerous cosmic catastrophies in her 4.7 billion yr history, including extinction level collisions with other cosmic bodies.
In fact, the earth's geology, and ecology has been largely shaped and bear witness to such catastrophic collisions.
Please where were you and other scientists during the space of 4.7 billion years to record and observe these castastrophic events? And how come the scientists have survived till today?

plaetton:
...
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160129090451.htm

Stop acting ignorant, Josh.
Stop spouting historical speculation as scientific fact plaetton. You shameless parader. You may subscribe to your unsupported illusion of order from chaos, but don't go about calling historical opinion fact and lying to do it. And you may invent planetary bodies for which you have no observation or evidence for and invent chaotic cosmic collisions and other stories, but do not go about spouting your opinion as fact, because that is dishonest, and idioti.c. And anyone who prefers to reason for himself for a few seconds will realize that what you call fact is nothing but a speculated opinion of history.

Nonsense.

lol. Guys will sit down and speculate what happened billions of years ago and what is basically unproveable and unobservable, then they will go about filling in the gaps by inventing imaginary planets and inventing imaginary collisions. They then go ahead and publish what they think may have happened, then plaetton and other doughnut munching atheists will carry their speculations and shamelessly parade them as fact.

I advise you to go and write your facts down and name the book plaetton's book of imaginary stories.
Busy giving science a bad name.

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Re: What Is Nature Exactly? by Joshthefirst(m): 3:05pm On Mar 17, 2016
plaetton:


And yes, the earth's geology, as well as her current ecology is a product of her violent and chaotic past.
That is a fact, not merely plaetton's opinion.
And you are parading lies on a public forum.

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Re: What Is Nature Exactly? by Joshthefirst(m): 3:10pm On Mar 17, 2016
plaetton:


Scientific facts are not subscriptions. They are not religious beliefs one chooses to subscribe or unsubscribe.
I actually feel myself amazed at your bald-faced lying plaetton.

I choose to believe you're lying, not that you're too ignorant to differentiate opinion and theory from fact.

Theories can be subscribed to and unsubscribed to quite easily. We do it all the time in science and medicine. As knowledge grows, previously incomplete speculations and analysis are updated and former opinions are laid to rest.

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Re: What Is Nature Exactly? by Joshthefirst(m): 3:15pm On Mar 17, 2016
KingEbukaNaija:


Facts ? Or assumptions ?

Like the FIVE theories that try to explain the formation of the moon

Or the TOP THREE theories that try to explain the origin of life forms on earth

Do you see you we are against purporting spurious assumptions as facts
Thank you abeg

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Re: What Is Nature Exactly? by Joshthefirst(m): 3:18pm On Mar 17, 2016
PastorAIO:




I didn't realise that the Daily Mail was a scientific journal.
sciencedaily isn't a scientific journal also.

There are many sites that try to report/interpret scientific trends

Do you want us to accept only original journal entries as sources?

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Re: What Is Nature Exactly? by UyiIredia(m): 5:32pm On Mar 17, 2016
Kay17:


Now you are seeing the weaknesses of extrapolation.

That aside, could you explain how intelligence rather than imagination can be responsible creation from nothingness?

I don't see any weakness. You do, your materialism remember. Imagination falls under intelligence, the more intelligent one is the more one can use their imagination. I can't and won't dwell on how this world was made by intelligence but I can make the inference that intelligence was fundamental to creating our world given the sort of systems we see. If there's a weakness point it out so it can be dealt with.

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Re: What Is Nature Exactly? by Kay17: 6:48pm On Mar 17, 2016
UyiIredia:


I don't see any weakness. You do, your materialism remember. Imagination falls under intelligence, the more intelligent one is the more one can use their imagination. I can't and won't dwell on how this world was made by intelligence but I can make the inference that intelligence was fundamental to creating our world given the sort of systems we see. If there's a weakness point it out so it can be dealt with.

But again the reasons why you infer these natural systems were created by God is because they are similar to human made systems, isn't it? And despite the fact that intelligence as used by man, is used with a pre-existing framework.

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Re: What Is Nature Exactly? by KingEbukaNaija: 6:50pm On Mar 17, 2016
Kay17:


Your reasoning is similar to this:

A dove flies, therefore penguins fly!

You have to recognise the limitations of your arguments. Humans can create cars and ships because we through our intellect, are able to grasp the workings of the Universe. We understand the physics and chemistry of the Universe. We know how time and light works. We know what gases do and are. We understand laws of motion and thermodynamics. Without these knowledge, we wouldn't build anything despite our intellect.

Information and coding lend us knowledge of physical relationships. We learnt them because they surround us in Nature already.

Now if you consider God just prior to the beginning of the Universe, there must have been total emptiness. Total Nothing. No rules or information. Intelligence would have been abjectly useless. God would require magic rather than intelligence.

In conclusion, intelligence needs a pre-existing framework as a precondition to work.

Improvisation ?

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Re: What Is Nature Exactly? by KingEbukaNaija: 6:53pm On Mar 17, 2016
johnydon22:


Absolutely brilliant !!! Intelligence is a product of already existing inspirations, Nothingness suggests no intelligence but abracadabra..!!!

Dude ! Improvisation is also an exhibition of intelligence . Try again cool
Re: What Is Nature Exactly? by KingEbukaNaija: 7:02pm On Mar 17, 2016
Energy is part of God and energy is contained in every existing constituent of the universe ...

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Re: What Is Nature Exactly? by KingEbukaNaija: 7:13pm On Mar 17, 2016
Kay17:


But again the reasons why you infer these natural systems were created by God is because they are similar to human made systems, isn't it? And despite the fact that intelligence as used by man, is used with a pre-existing framework.

God is eternal , all knowing right ? Meaning before he caused something to come forth from nothing he already knew the outcome . So the known outcome could have been used to create the unknown . So that may explain the intelligence behind nature . He caused the resources to exist tho

I hope you understand

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Re: What Is Nature Exactly? by UyiIredia(m): 7:40pm On Mar 17, 2016
Kay17:


But again the reasons why you infer these natural systems were created by God is because they are similar to human made systems, isn't it? And despite the fact that intelligence as used by man, is used with a pre-existing framework.

Sure. Not only that but natural processes are easily shown incapable of making these lifeforms and self-organize even in principle.
Re: What Is Nature Exactly? by Kay17: 8:09pm On Mar 17, 2016
KingEbukaNaija:


God is eternal , all knowing right ? Meaning before he caused something to come forth from nothing he already knew the outcome . So the known outcome could have been used to create the unknown . So that may explain the intelligence behind nature . He caused the resources to exist tho

I hope you understand

To be sincere that's a daft post. No intelligence was required to make it.

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Re: What Is Nature Exactly? by Kay17: 8:12pm On Mar 17, 2016
UyiIredia:


Sure. Not only that but natural processes are easily shown incapable of making these lifeforms and self-organize even in principle.

Do you believe God created the Universe from nothingness?

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Re: What Is Nature Exactly? by Weah96: 8:23pm On Mar 17, 2016
Kay17:


Do you believe God created the Universe from nothingness?

Nothing is a very difficult idea to grasp. I think we use it in everyday vernacular without understanding the material implications.
Re: What Is Nature Exactly? by UyiIredia(m): 8:27pm On Mar 17, 2016
Kay17:

Do you believe God created the Universe from nothingness?
Sure.
Re: What Is Nature Exactly? by Kay17: 8:43pm On Mar 17, 2016
UyiIredia:


Sure.

But you have a problem with natural processes pulling out rabbits from a hat?! Nonetheless God would have had an unrestrained hand in creating the Universe from nothing ( I'm assuming God has the power to do so). He could write whatever laws of physics he wants to, right?

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Re: What Is Nature Exactly? by Kay17: 8:45pm On Mar 17, 2016
Weah96:


Nothing is a very difficult idea to grasp. I think we use it in everyday vernacular without understanding the material implications.


You can explain yourself
Re: What Is Nature Exactly? by Joshthefirst(m): 8:49pm On Mar 17, 2016
Weah96:


Nothing is a very difficult idea to grasp. I think we use it in everyday vernacular without understanding the material implications.

I don't believe there is such a thing as Nothing.

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