27 Jul 06
Originally posted by googlefudgeAre we past that point? I don't agree. I think you're clinging to some concepts of God, but why restrain yourself to them if you're an atheist?
I disagree with that analysis of science but concentrating on the 'room for god' aspect, you don't need to prove there is no god, for every point/particle in the universe. You only need (for the moment) that there is no god controlling the earth and surrounding solar system. Other things like proof that all of our experiences/feelings and thoughts are ex ...[text shortened]... to fit god into to fit with this leaves god being a fairly pointless and pathetic being.
I see we'll just run around in circles, anyway. My arguments before, in my opinion, apply again to your new post.
27 Jul 06
Originally posted by googlefudgeI am not left with any fallacy. I never claimed there was an outside, nor have I denied it. It is actually irrelevant to my point even though I disagree that, by definition, the universe is "everything".
However you are still left with the logical fallacy that by definition there can be no outside.
Incidentally the Auditors from the discworld spring to mind at this point.
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27 Jul 06
Originally posted by Palynkathe word universe means everything. this is the meaning used in cosmology (please not that the size of the 'universe' has increased through out history as our knowledge of it has increased).
I am not left with any fallacy. I never claimed there was an outside, nor have I denied it. It is actually irrelevant to my point even though I disagree that, by definition, the universe is "everything".
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27 Jul 06
Originally posted by PalynkaI have no concept of what god is as I dont think there is one. my point is that there are people who believe that there is one and I was saying that to fit a god into the physical universe we see wround us that god must be pretty pathetic. to the extent that we couldn't possibly know of it's existance. if god can't manipulate the world around us or our thoughts then anything we know as god has to be a creation of our own minds as the real thing is too pathetic to have acheived it.
Are we past that point? I don't agree. I think you're clinging to some concepts of God, but why restrain yourself to them if you're an atheist?
I see we'll just run around in circles, anyway. My arguments before, in my opinion, apply again to your new post.
27 Jul 06
Originally posted by googlefudgeConsidering models like String Theory or MWI have yet to be disproven I think it's better to abstain from such definitive conclusions.
the word universe means everything. this is the meaning used in cosmology (please not that the size of the 'universe' has increased through out history as our knowledge of it has increased).
27 Jul 06
Originally posted by googlefudgeHow do you define the "supernatural"?
How about; 'There is absolutly no evidence of the supernatural of any kind, and if the supernatural existed you would expect evidence to abound, thus god is almost certainly a fictional creation of the human mind' ?
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27 Jul 06
Originally posted by PalynkaSo you are happy not knowing what you don't know, and with that are
I never said otherwise, but you are talking about induction, not deduction.
All natural sciences are ultimately inductive. Put in a simple way, most of the processes of deduction are during scientific experiments and applied to samples. The need to extrapolate the results to the universe outside the sample is inductive, the assumption that it has worked t ...[text shortened]... e "room" would become. I'm an atheist because I feel that "room" is already small enough.
able to make such a claim?
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27 Jul 06
Originally posted by PalynkaEverything in the universe is everything in the universe, that does
I am not left with any fallacy. I never claimed there was an outside, nor have I denied it. It is actually irrelevant to my point even though I disagree that, by definition, the universe is "everything".
not mean that everything is in the universe.
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27 Jul 06
Originally posted by PalynkaI think here you are confusing the universe with the 'visible universe'. if M theory turns out to be true and we live on a 'brane' floating through some higher dimensional hyperspace which contains other 'brans' of varying dimensions then the universe is this higher dimensional space and not just our 'brane'.
Considering models like String Theory or MWI have yet to be disproven I think it's better to abstain from such definitive conclusions.
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27 Jul 06
Originally posted by KellyJayuniverse means the sum totality of everything including the space and time it is imbeded in. by definition you cant have anything outside it, if we find stuff outside of what we currently think of as the universe then we expand our veiw of what the universe is.
Everything in the universe is everything in the universe, that does
not mean that everything is in the universe.
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27 Jul 06
Originally posted by spiritmangr8nessI agree, inorder to find a piece of data one must have the filter one
What evidence does an Atheist have that God does not exist? Get the question right!
wants to use for the search to correctly look for the information
required. What filter is being used to find a God they think isn't real?
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27 Jul 06
Originally posted by googlefudgeYep, if you find something you didn't think was there you expand the universe...so how do you find something you don't think is there?
universe means the sum totality of everything including the space and time it is imbeded in. by definition you cant have anything outside it, if we find stuff outside of what we currently think of as the universe then we expand our veiw of what the universe is.
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