Evolution relies on what you call 'mistakes' as you well enough know. And the rate of copying 'mistakes' evolves itself because 'error correcting genes' are also a thing. Thus 'mistakes' or as I like to call them 'variations' are more common in some parts of the genome than others. — unenlightened
Yes, there can be mistakes when copying genes — Truth Seeker
If so then unenlightened's point stands: there can be no mistakes when copying genes since we are not intelligently designed by a God or a team of Gods. — Moliere
The point I am making is that we are not intelligently designed by an all-knowing and all-powerful God or Gods. — Truth Seeker
The point I am making is that we are not intelligently designed by an all-knowing and all-powerful God or Gods.
— Truth Seeker
How do we know that? How do we know that without divine/simulation intervention, there would be ten times as many car crashes a day, but god/simulation designers are constantly intervening in an unnoticeable way? Once theism or simulation theory is taken seriously, we really can't say that evolution is not being directed. — RogueAI
Did you not read about all the design flaws in organisms? Why would all-knowing and all-powerful God or Gods create flawed organisms? Why didn't all-knowing and all-powerful God or Gods prevent all suffering, inequality, injustice, and death? Why not make all living things nonconsumers instead of making some autotrophs, some herbivores, some carnivores, some omnivores and some parasites? It's possible that there is one or more evil Gods and he/she/it/they made flawed organisms and caused suffering, inequality, injustice, and death because they are evil. — Truth Seeker
I would say the present and future exist simultaneously or rather, the future is necessarily co-existing with the present. And this is evidenced by certain conditions in the universe that must-exist-in-order-for-the-present to exist but which also would require some time in the future to decay, thereby ensuring that some future will exist also. The law of mass conservation ensures the future, for example.Eternalism/Block Universe Theory: This theory suggests that all moments in time, past, present, and future, exist simultaneously. Time is viewed as a sort of block, where every event that has ever occurred or will occur already exists, similar to how all the frames of a movie exist on a film strip. — Truth Seeker
I have granted your wish! I have edited the original post to include a poll.I wish you've created a poll in your OP. — L'éléphant
I am an agnostic as I can't know whether God or Gods exist or not. You didn't answer my questions. — Truth Seeker
Thank you, Master. Now I have two more!I have granted your wish! I have edited the original post to include a poll. — Truth Seeker
Yes, I am also agnostic about the Simulation Hypothesis as it is not possible to test this hypothesis.Are you agnostic about Simulation Theory? — RogueAI
How is doing what I like the same as justice?Divine justice is usually conceived as tautological. Think "I made the world and I make the rules, so I can do what I like." — unenlightened
How is doing what I like the same as justice? — Truth Seeker
Don't proselytise dude, it's considered uncool on this site. And if you want to argue about the Bible, do it with someone who takes the Bible seriously - that's not me! — unenlightened
My garden - my rules. Slugs and caterpillars are sent to hell, and philosophers get fresh vegetables in due season. When you make a universe, you get to set the rules. You don't let your creation boss you about. — unenlightened
I didn't proselytise. I responded to what you said. The word proselytise means "to induce someone to convert to one's faith" - that clearly is not what I did. — Truth Seeker
Of course it is. IF God made you, he fucking owns you. Go talk to your breakfast about justice and convince it it wants to be eaten.That's not justice. — Truth Seeker
No you didn't. I didn't reference the Bible, you did. You responded to a dog whistle like a fanatic because I made a joke that involved the word "God". Other religions are available. — unenlightened
That's not justice.
— Truth Seeker
Of course it is. IF God made you, he fucking owns you. Go talk to your breakfast about justice and convince it it wants to be eaten. — unenlightened
I am a vegan and have been so for 18 years. — Truth Seeker
I am a vegan and have been so for 18 years.
— Truth Seeker
Gooder than God. :lol:
I'm sorry. I already said that, but I hadn't realised your total fragility. Just ignore me, and I'll do likewise. — unenlightened
Physicists say lots of things that they come to later regret upon a cursory examination of their language. Perhaps they should keep their mouths shut rather than have us be forced to listen to their mad ramblings from documentary to documentary on the subject matter.That's so interesting. Thank you for sharing your insights about time. According to physicists, time is not on its own, it exists as spacetime. — Truth Seeker
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