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You think there's a multiverse?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Jimmy on Thursday. 54 Replies 0 Likes
The following is an excerpt from "New Scientist" Magazine. "COSMOLOGY is in crisis. Recent experiments have given us an increasingly precise narrative of the history of our universe, but attempts to…Continue
Can Spirituality be Debunked by Buying Unsaleable Haunted Houses at a Bargain?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Michael Jan 15. 11 Replies 1 Like
Can spirituality be debunked by buying unsaleable haunted houses?Or to put it another way. Is there documentation of a skeptic buying a haunted house at a bargain and actually living in it?I am aware…Continue
What is the Origin of the UFO Flap near the Sun?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Michael Oct 29, 2014. 7 Replies 1 Like
In recent times. UFOs have been sighted near the Sun by both NASA and by Russian astronomers.The most recent photographed by NASA and reported by THECOUNT.com, appears on the site.…Continue
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What Happen at the Loring Military Base?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Jimmy Russell Apr 11, 2014. 6 Replies 1 Like
Military bases are frequently targets of UFO activities. The paranormal media has capitalized on this. However, green men from mars can't always be the explanation.What are the other possibilities…Continue
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Pope Beanie replied to Michael's discussion 'You think there's a multiverse?'"Thanks for the direct link to Michio's interview.
It's funny, I almost made joke to you in my previous response about Art Bell getting his audience to imagine some kind of mind-power change over something physical in the universe, thereby…"
Unseen replied to Michael's discussion 'You think there's a multiverse?'"How does the idea of a multiverse (which needn't imply an infinitude at all) violate Occam's Razor.
BTW, Occam's Razor only functions upon reasonable explanations. If a simple explanation is also absurd or impossible, it…"
Pope Beanie replied to Michael's discussion 'You think there's a multiverse?'"I have to apply my Occam's razor long before confusing myself that consciousness had any role our 15 billion year history. Do you recall offhand who (besides Deepak Chopra) talks like that?"
Unseen replied to Michael's discussion 'You think there's a multiverse?'"So, to answer the original post as best I can, it's not that I think there's a multiverse, it's that I think a lot of very smart scientists think it's likely."
Pope Beanie replied to Michael's discussion 'You think there's a multiverse?'"I get the same idea, and as an earlier link from Reg points out, imperfect/preliminary theories and models are how science keeps moving closer to more accurate and useful theories and models. I think of rough sculptures, hewn over time to look more…"
Unseen replied to Michael's discussion 'You think there's a multiverse?'"I'm a science appreciator rather than a scientist, but I've seen just about every show there is about cosmology, quantum mechanics, relativity, etc., and from what I have gathered, for many physicists and cosmologists, a multiverse fits it…"
Unseen replied to Michael's discussion 'You think there's a multiverse?'"That is a truly ignorant statement. It says that you probably know very little about it."
Michael replied to Michael's discussion 'You think there's a multiverse?'"Given what we don't know about the universe via the scientific method, it seems today's philosophy is more than mental masturbation and post-modern obfuscation."
Logicallunatic replied to Michael's discussion 'You think there's a multiverse?'"Given what we now know about the universe via the scientific method, it seems today's philosophy is nothing more than mental masturbation and post-modern obfuscation. "
Michael replied to Michael's discussion 'You think there's a multiverse?'"This what I have read lately"
matt.clerke replied to Michael's discussion 'You think there's a multiverse?'"What makes you say that? Could we not make some minute adjustment to some constant or another and still produce life?"
Unseen replied to Michael's discussion 'You think there's a multiverse?'"If you're faith-based rather than knowledge-based, you can't make any claim to knowledge."
Michael replied to Michael's discussion 'You think there's a multiverse?'"trancsendent fundamental is not necessarily a Christian God as a said before, this is God in the philosophical sense. A principle that brings us into being."
Michael replied to Michael's discussion 'You think there's a multiverse?'"That debate rages, but sofar for carbon based units, this is the only universe there could possibly be."
Michael replied to Michael's discussion 'You think there's a multiverse?'"Christianity is Faith based. "If you faith is as a mustard seed, you will say unto yonder mountan get ye to hinder place". Absolutely ridiculous base on the known universe.
Yet I can rule out the existence truth that transcends this…"
Michael replied to Michael's discussion 'You think there's a multiverse?'"In truth everything must abey some law, whether is percieved as supernatural or not.
Dark matter is invisible, can't be touched, weighed or put in a mass spectrometer nor in a Large Hadron Collider, It has Universe transending qualities with…"
Unseen replied to Michael's discussion 'You think there's a multiverse?'"Realities aren't statements or propositions, those two things which are the only things that can be true or false, and that due to accurately corresponding, or not, with the things to which they refer.
God, if he exists, is an entity and…"
Michael replied to Michael's discussion 'You think there's a multiverse?'"Often capitalized : a transcendent fundamental or spiritual reality"
Unseen replied to Michael's discussion 'You think there's a multiverse?'"Truth is a property of statements/propositions. Is God a statement or proposition?"
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Do Quasi-Chrystals allude to a Higher Reality?
Posted on August 24, 2012 at 12:38pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Quasi-crystals and their nonperiodic indeterminate assemblages appears to point to a higher quantum reality first posed by Dr. Roger Penrose in his book, "The Emperors New Mind". In short, it is impossible for crystals having 5 fold symmetry to grow without first knowing a prior what the final over all arrangement will be. Yet unmistakably they do grow in nature. This phenomenon could be explain by conjecturing a higher quantum reality in which all conceivable arrangements exist in Hilbert…
Continue A Rendering of the last 2000 Years not found in Christian Annals ( Pagan Christianity )
Posted on August 14, 2011 at 10:30pm 1 Comment 0 Likes
Borrowing from Stephen Hawking, here is a "A brief history of Time":
It actually started in the first Century. First signs of pagan Christianity appeared in Israel. There was Hellenistic Church constructed complete with a mosiac of Christ represented as Helios in a mosaic on the floor. Even the use of images is alien to Hebraic Christianity, particularly with the prohibition in the Ten Commandments.
Things came to a head with Emperor Constantine, who sees a cross in the sky and…
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- At 11:07am on April 27, 2012,
Ed said… so you don't really believe any of this invisible supernatural gobbledyegook either I assume...
- At 1:28am on July 1, 2011,
jared huffman said… - so do you not have an opinion as to old or young earth and evolution and all that. i see no evidence biblical that satan was cast to earth long before adam and eve arrived, is your statement just speculation or .... specifically what is ur opionion of adam and eve real? first people? did other species evolve unto them?
- At 9:19pm on June 30, 2011, jared huffman said…
- hey what is ur position as to the age of the earth and the first two chapters of genesis and adam and eve and all that
- At 4:06pm on June 13, 2011, jared huffman said…
- i understand what you are saying. i think the physical sperm analogies might be lacking a bit but they obviously always are. I see the subordination in the biblical texts that you talk about when christ is a man. However, his preexistence before he became a man and whether he was subordinate or not would be purely speculation and honestly not that important. There may be some subtle implications of all this theologically but I don't think it really should constitute to much criticism of the trinitarion doctrine seeing that ultiimately I still have to believe jesus is fully god. Whether, he was in some sense subordinate as the godman seems to not matter that much. All that to say I get what your saying though.
- At 9:12pm on June 11, 2011, jared huffman said…
- so what is your opinion of the trinity. how do u explain the father son holy spirit thing along with the deity of christ
- At 1:50pm on January 21, 2011,
Dave G said… - Michael, you had two identical forum posts, probably due to a Ning glitch. I removed the duplicate for you and left the other in place.
- At 7:37pm on March 15, 2010,
M said… - Did you figure out these correlations on your own?
- At 1:36pm on March 12, 2010, M said…
- I was actually excited about someone's reply to your post, not the post itself. All apologies for the mistake. Am I interpreting correctly that you are one of those folks that "decode" the Bible?
- At 10:47pm on March 10, 2010, M said…
- I'm not attempting to be impolite or chaotic, but why are you here, exactly? Are you looking to convert (yourself or us)? Argue? Entertain yourself? Just curious.
- At 10:09pm on March 2, 2010,
Skycomet the Fallen Angel said… - Thank you for the compliment. ^_^
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