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    pbacot
    last edited by 5 Dec 2011, 01:42

    I wonder if St. Hawkings actually said that. Seems like a weak argument, but I'll have to see that show. Sounds like because no time there's no causality. But God could exist without time. Why not? "Then" God creates time along with the universe(s). It's just that civilized humans can't talk without putting "time" into the equation.

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      pbacot
      last edited by 5 Dec 2011, 01:45

      @tig said:

      Just because you can ask a question it doesn't follow that there's a simple yes/no answer...

      That's the Buddhist answer: Yes... and no.

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        Dropout
        last edited by 5 Dec 2011, 01:47

        @solo said:

        @unknownuser said:

        Did God create the universe?

        I'm willing to bet my life that he didn't.

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          Krisidious
          last edited by 5 Dec 2011, 01:56

          @solo said:

          @unknownuser said:

          Did God create the universe?

          I'm willing to bet my life that he didn't.

          actually you're betting your soul... your life is quite safe unless you're traveling to the middle east.

          and how can there be a universe with out a creator? and how can the creator not have a creator? what did he do before the universe? he just sat around in complete and utter nothingness for infinite time and then one day he's like "I'm bored, I think I create a few gazillion things..." and then he stopped.

          both stories seem highly unlikely to the discerning mind. more likely? the universe has always been. in some type of rubber banding shrinking and expanding mashup... how can there be nothing ever? show me one example of something coming from nothing... until there is more proof, the only honest religion is the agnostic one.

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            boofredlay
            last edited by 5 Dec 2011, 03:00

            @krisidious said:

            ... until there is more proof, the only honest religion is the agnostic one.

            The Dyslexic Agnostic Insomniac sits up all night wondering if there really is a DOG.

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              Krisidious
              last edited by 5 Dec 2011, 04:23

              well you said you were betting your life... and if you want to be real, you're not. it's just your afterlife slip on Snuggie that you're betting. so there is no real risk in being an Atheist, you simply do whatever you feel to be right. the christian or any other god lover has to live his life in a certain way, often sacrificing in some form or another, doing things he/she might not normally do... what if you tithed, volunteered, shaved your head, cut your penis, sacrificed your goat and gave up all those wonderful sins all your life only to wake up dead after death... no afterlife. now that's betting.

              and what if you die and wake up in an afterlife? being the reasonable person I've found you to be I'm sure you would acknowledge your error and get on with things... how bad could it be? eternal life. (although I'm not to hip on spending eternity worshiping someone.) I mean pushing a boulder up a hill for eternity doesn't sound all that bad... at least you'd have your mind.

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                Alan Fraser
                last edited by 5 Dec 2011, 08:19

                Yes He did....in a puff of smoke. πŸ˜‰
                You really like stirring things, don't you Mike? πŸ˜„

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                  Rich O Brien Moderator
                  last edited by 5 Dec 2011, 08:31

                  I'd just like to know how to get the figs in a fig roll.

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                    srx
                    last edited by 5 Dec 2011, 10:34

                    Is this logical:

                    Any entity whose conceptual recognition does not involve a necessary reference to any definite actual entities of the temporal world is called an eternal object"

                    No one can create eternal object, because if one creates an object, it is from start connected to him, which means it is not eternal by definition.

                    So, eternal object can not be created, (has no parent)...everything else can.

                    Every created object has its parent - creator...creator of creator...etc. ...so if there was a point in the past (BIG BANG) which had no parents, it had to be eternal object.

                    Man of course can not conceive eternal object because of its nature of not connected to anything, but it is burning inside as energy of life (love) - faith. To make it closer to people every religion has its human form.

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                      michaliszissiou
                      last edited by 5 Dec 2011, 11:04

                      Let's try to understand what we're saying here.
                      Especially Pete, the most "mystical" among us. This "c'mon lets be real" pete... πŸ˜†

                      Some Ludwig Wittgenstein's quotes.
                      -The world is all that is the case.
                      -The world is the totality of facts, not things.
                      -It is quite impossible for a proposition to state that it itself is true.
                      -The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
                      -The subject does not belong to the world, but it is a limit of the world.
                      -Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.
                      -The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is.
                      -doubt can exist only where a question exists, a question only where an answer exists, and an answer only where something can be said.
                      -There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.
                      And of course...
                      -Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

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                        Gaieus
                        last edited by 5 Dec 2011, 11:13

                        And to continue with Michalis' list (and which can at least be adopted for SketchUp works too)

                        - Every problem has a solution. Whatever does not have a solution is not a problem.
                        (BTW does/will this debate have a solution?)

                        Gai...

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                          TIG Moderator
                          last edited by 5 Dec 2011, 11:32

                          The question of whether [or not] 'God' created the universe, in no way requires a sentient being to have a 'soul' [or not]...
                          Conversely whether [or not] a sentient being has a soul, in no way demonstrates that there is a 'God' [or not]...
                          They are quite separate questions and issues...

                          Now... onto the question of a 'soul'...

                          As set out in my earlier post, as sentient [human] beings we all agree [I hope!] that we have an existence outside of the physical universe - in our consciousness, thoughts and memories etc - which do not reside in the physical realm at all; however, to me it's quite clear that they do need the physical universe for their very existence - so the countless hyper-complex electro-chemical interactions in our brains and our interactions with the external world are what we consider to be our 'self'. If you destroy/heavily-damaged the physical brain then the 'self' is 'gone'.

                          So it is possible for 'something' to exist outside of the 'real' physical universe, whilst relying on that 'real' universe for its very continuance. If you equate 'self' with the 'soul' then it means this 'soul' is not then necessarily immortal...
                          However, an interesting hypothesis... if you consider your 'self' as the manifestation of a computer-program-like process happening in your brain, then there is a possibility that this process could continue after death when the brain ceases to function in its usual same way - for even in decay it is still 'functioning' at some level [albeit useless for your self's continuance]...
                          So let's backtrack for a minute... if you have a computer programs running it consists of a complex set of instructions and interactions of data, and it all happens very quickly - nows let's suppose you have the 'rules' of that computer-program clearly set out for you, and some pencils and a wad of paper... you could replicate what the computer-program did in a second, but by longhand it might take you a week to get to the same answer. So the 'process' can run independent of the 'machinery' on which it's running. It just comes down to 'timescale' - you take a week to do it longhand, whilst a computer takes a second. The core processes that make up 'you' [aka 'self'] run on the 'processor' called your brain, and these of course give rise to your [illusion of] consciousness [aka 'of being' - existence]. If we were skilled enough we could decode that process-program, then transfer it to another 'processor' [which doesn't need to be the same type - so 'brain' could then become 'hyper-computer'], then supposedly the 'self' resulting from the process would be cloned too and it could consider 'itself' conscious/existing - of course our perception includes all kinds of interactions with our senses and bodies too, so the cloned 'self' is unlikely to consider itself to be an exact replicant of the original [at least not after after the initial shock wears off!]. The alternative processor would almost certainly run at a different speed to the original, so a single thought might take a week rather than a second [or vice versa], but that thought would still happen, and although interaction with the outside [perhaps through new sensory add-ons] would be possible these interactions would be quite different to our 'normal' experience.

                          Now if we accept that we could [given enough time, money, effort etc] replicate a 'self/soul' onto an alternative processor then that new 'self/soul' could become effectively 'immortal' as long as there were enough physical processors made available for it to run on as time passed [until of course the universe dies of 'entropy' - but then that'd be an end to 'everything', a bit like the start was from 'nothing' the end is 'entropy'].

                          So let's now make another jump... If we accept that we could replicate a 'self/soul' by 'manual' means. then who's to say it doesn't happen 'naturally'. If at the moment of death [of your brain] your self/soul-processes could slip into another existence, so they are now running on an alternative low-level processor - perhaps as interactions in a 'field' [beloved by both physicists and Mr Spock] - then you would continue to 'exist' in some form, and although you might take a century to have a single thought the thought would still happen [or conversely all of your thoughts, ever, might appear to happen in an instant when viewed by us mere mortals]; however, because of the inevitable timescale issues in this alternative processing scenario 'you' could never perceive the world as it exists for us other main-brainers, let alone communicate/interact with us: although perhaps would could detect other 'independent' processes running on the same 'field' as yours and somehow interact with them... So 'consciousness' could be a process that exists at many different levels of being, it doesn't necessarily need a 'brain' - although that is the main processor that we know off it could be acted out on other processors too.

                          So, is your 'self/soul' a result of your 'consciousness' or vice versa, or perhaps they are manifestations of the same thing ? Either way 'you' could exist outside of your brain, but of course without your brain and all of its add-on senses etc you would be a very different 'being' - unrecognizable to us and vive versa !
                          πŸ€“ 😲

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                            Marian
                            last edited by 5 Dec 2011, 12:38

                            @unknownuser said:

                            Did God create the universe?

                            Nope. Case closed.

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                              Mike Lucey
                              last edited by 5 Dec 2011, 12:54

                              @alan fraser said:

                              Yes He did....in a puff of smoke. πŸ˜‰
                              You really like stirring things, don't you Mike? πŸ˜„

                              Yep!

                              However the older I get the more I think about this. Like many it was ingrained into me that there is a God and an afterlife of some type. I have not ruled out the God part of it totally but I have ruled out the afterlife as outlined. As Stephen Hawkings says at the end of the documentary, this is our lot. Make the best of it and !!!

                              As far as I am concerned my remains will dissolve back into the Universe and form parts of other things. That is afterlife as I see it.

                              Then again! Mmmmmm reincarnation! Must look into that more. Does a thought, word, action have some continuing 'afterlife' once enacted?

                              As you say Alan, 'we' think we know far more than we actually do πŸ˜’

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                                pilou
                                last edited by 5 Dec 2011, 12:56

                                @TIG : Seems you are fan of Douglas Hofstadter and his famous

                                http://onionesquereality.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/godel_escher_bach_an_eternal_golden_braid.jpg

                                PS Can you insert some blank lines in your long texts ? πŸ˜„

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                                  Alan Fraser
                                  last edited by 5 Dec 2011, 13:39

                                  To be honest, I don't think we know nearly as much as we think we do to be able to answer the question of whether there is a creator or whether consciousness continues after death. Probability based on current scientific knowledge says not. On the other hand, is God the standard Biblical Judaeo-Christian / Islamic model?....of course not...that's just mythology.

                                  Given that it looks like 'reality' can't exist at all without the need for 11 dimensions, simplistic questions about the kind of creation that we can picture in our mind's eye are not of any real relevance. Statements that the universe must have been created because stuff can't just pop into existence by itself make no sense...because that's exactly what stuff does. Sub-atomic particles do it all the time. The only reason we tend to picture an atom as a tiny solar system is because our own experiences force us to think that way. The idea that the particles come and go, into and out of existence, inside a probability cloud is just too much to cope with....even though that appears to be the reality.

                                  Personally, I'm with Descartes; it's all a dream...however real it might appear to be. πŸ˜‰

                                  Still one of the best videos on the subject:
                                  [flash=640,390:i8d1fp54]http://www.youtube.com/v/e8P1Y1a7-L4?version=3[/flash:i8d1fp54]

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                                    pmiller
                                    last edited by 5 Dec 2011, 13:46

                                    Still one of the best videos on the subject:

                                    Bravo and thanks for that one Alan, How about this:
                                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo&feature

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                                      Alan Fraser
                                      last edited by 5 Dec 2011, 14:46

                                      In the Carl Sagan video, I especially like the bit starring Jack Nicholson as The Serpent. 🀣

                                      eden.jpg

                                      Excellent video BTW, Paul. πŸ‘

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                                        michaliszissiou
                                        last edited by 5 Dec 2011, 16:23

                                        @alan and all other friends,
                                        Carl Sagan's Cosmos original series is my favorite. As the "contact" movie.
                                        @pilou
                                        This graphic on the front page of the book... it looks like... shadowbox-zbrush? πŸ˜†

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                                          ely862me
                                          last edited by 5 Dec 2011, 19:00

                                          I do believe so! Case closed(for me)!

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