Posts by Caedes

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Creationist Should Dismiss Genesis Quickly

by Coded Logic in

chris tann,.

in your earlier post you seemed to be under the impression that genesis and science were somehow compatible .

however, the truth is the two are not reconcilable at all.

Caedes

If you cannot understand how adding a powerful creator god adds a hugely additional level of complexity to the natural universe then I don't know I can help you. We are not talking about maths we are talking about the concept. Of course any god sufficiently powerful to create universes has to be more complex than it's creation.

If so, by complex do you mean composed of "many parts" (Dawkins type definition)?

and, if so, What is the evidence that a supernatural God must be composed of "parts"???

Hooberus,

I am not interested in getting into an argument with you regarding semantics, this discussion is about logic, if you had a serious point to make regarding my posts you would have made it already. How many times do I have to state that there is not one scrap of empirical evidence for your god? My point is that a proposed god that can create universes must logically be complex. I am not stating anything about your god other than that. If you think that your god must or must not have parts that is your problem to define not mine.

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Waters Under the Oceans?

by The Searcher in

interesting article from the bbc.. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20141029-are-oceans-hiding-inside-earth.

(genesis 7:11) "....on that day all the springs of the vast watery deep burst open....".

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Caedes

Kaik is right, underground aquifers are in porous rocks. They aren't oceans as such, the water isn't slopping about in underground caverns. The water can end up mixed with oil and gas deposits in the same rock.

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Creationist Should Dismiss Genesis Quickly

by Coded Logic in

chris tann,.

in your earlier post you seemed to be under the impression that genesis and science were somehow compatible .

however, the truth is the two are not reconcilable at all.

Caedes

Here's a key difference in our perspective, however: you're suggesting that only a small portion of this god would be used for the universe. I'm suggesting that it could be half of the god, or even the whole god. We can't theorize what a god would be made of. It could be that he has no "body" and is all "mind". In that case the god could have essentially turned himself into the universe.

Even if you take your example of a god turning itself into our universe that process would involve the transformation of energy from one form into another, assuming that this transformation follows the laws of physics then a certain portion of that transformation would involve entropy losses. Hence you still have the same problem that you had before just on a smaller scale.

If you want to say your god is utterly unfalsifiable that is fine by me, I thought that anyway.

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Creationist Should Dismiss Genesis Quickly

by Coded Logic in

chris tann,.

in your earlier post you seemed to be under the impression that genesis and science were somehow compatible .

however, the truth is the two are not reconcilable at all.

Caedes

Apognophos,

What you describe is commonly referred to as 'last thursdayism' and is utterly unfalsifiable and meaningless.

if the creator is using any part of himself to produce the universe, then the complexity is the same -- whether he uses his brain or a portion of his body to construct the universe. The amount of information that he would be dedicating to the universe would be the same whether it came from what we would consider to be its mind or its body (its "active force", to borrow a JWism). It seems that most people assume that a creator would build the universe with new material that it summoned into existence, but this ought to be impossible. It's more logical to imagine that it must use a part of itself.

You are then stuck back with the same problem, this (god's spare third testicle) universe that you are talking about has the same level of complexity as my materialistic natural universe. You still have the same problem I described before, that the rest of your god (sans third testical) also has a seperate level of complexity.

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Creationist Should Dismiss Genesis Quickly

by Coded Logic in

chris tann,.

in your earlier post you seemed to be under the impression that genesis and science were somehow compatible .

however, the truth is the two are not reconcilable at all.

Caedes

I have yet to read or hear an explanation that cotradicts that world picture

'A brief history of time' by Hawking contradicts your view of time and the universe. It is well worth reading.

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Creationist Should Dismiss Genesis Quickly

by Coded Logic in

chris tann,.

in your earlier post you seemed to be under the impression that genesis and science were somehow compatible .

however, the truth is the two are not reconcilable at all.

Caedes

Prologos,

Whilst I admire that you seem genuinely interested in science and that is obviously a good thing; it sometimes sounds like you have swallowed a book by Deepak Chopra (who is an awful charlatan and fraudster).

what is at the fringes of the natural universe gives us indications what is outside of it. The Background radiation, (really younger than the big bang), The movement, radiation that signals that all that matter has disappeared, out of the universe into a black hole, leaving only it's effects. time stands still in these conditions, and you can not be part of the universe if you do not paricipate in its movement through time. Remember that we live in a fabric of spacetime that is moving, expanding, and black hole matter has left us.

As I have said several times there is no outside our universe, our natural universe is everything there is. It includes billions of of black holes, the entire microwave background radiation and all of space-time. If you don't believe me feel free to research it, there are are dozens of books that explain this stuff. I and several others here would be happy to recommend some if you want to really have a scientific understanding of the universe. I don't say this merely to disagree with you but because you seem to have missed some fundamental aspects of the scientific understanding of the universe.

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Creationist Should Dismiss Genesis Quickly

by Coded Logic in

chris tann,.

in your earlier post you seemed to be under the impression that genesis and science were somehow compatible .

however, the truth is the two are not reconcilable at all.

Caedes

Hooberus,

See my post 1968 where I answered your question. It's interesting that you suddenly want evidence when in all the previous threads on this site where you have posted you run a mile when asked for your evidence.

Apognophos,

I see you are still having difficulties with the definition of complexity. Have you tried reading the wikipedia entry that I linked to?

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Dungeons and Dragons, Magic: The Gathering and all the stuff you weren't allowed to play as a JW

by marmot in

by nature i'm a total geek.

i read the lord of the rings for the first time in grade 3 and i would probably have had a 20-sided die hung around my neck if it weren't for the silly superstitious restrictions against playing rpgs among jws.

if anything they should encourage role playing games among the youth because it'll keep them virgins forever.

Caedes

40K conquest is a good game, I've bought the base game and I'm looking forward to the expansions. I also play the android netrunner card game. If you aren't playing in tournaments then they are both cheap to get into.

I have also been into Warhammer 40K and have several armies but I would hesitate recommending it these days as it is very expensive for what it is, they seem to be catering mainly to the collector market these days.

There are a number of alternatives to 40K these days, Distopian wars/legions, Warmachine, Malifaux, Infinity and Dreadzone, Dreadzone is one of my favourites. All are cheaper than 40K although warmachine is getting quite pricey.

X-wing miniatures game is good value for money and you get fantastic painted models of tie fighters and x-wings, and it is a great game as well. There are fantastic models of all the smaller Star Wars ships so you can have the the Millenium Falcon up against Boba Fett's Slave One.

Magic the gathering is described even by its fans as cardboard crack so I have never tried it.

A useful site for this sort of stuff is boardgamegeek, I have all my games listed on there (I have over 200! ) and they have detailed descriptions of any game you care to mention.

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Creationist Should Dismiss Genesis Quickly

by Coded Logic in

chris tann,.

in your earlier post you seemed to be under the impression that genesis and science were somehow compatible .

however, the truth is the two are not reconcilable at all.

Caedes

Island man,

Precisely the point.

Apognophos,

Coming from someone who doesn't understand the word complexity or how to google basic concepts I will take that as a compliment.

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TYRED OF SPELING ERURS? SIK OF BAD GRAMMUR?

by Terry in

jw
friends

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Caedes

The mistake that annoys me most is when I put in a double space at the end of a sentence. It is due to the fact that my phone auto-corrects this to a full stop, a space and then capitalises the next word. Familiarity and laziness are not a good combination.