Buddhism – Uncommon Descent

Intelligent Design Philosophy Religion Science

Is Buddhism really the most “science-friendly religion”?

Thompson’s point is applicable beyond Buddhism. “Theistic” evolutionists, for example, start with the premise that God wouldn’t “create” anything. That is really a message about God, not about nature, and it is bound to be a church-closer.

Big Bang Intelligent Design

Why does anyone care what Buddhist or Hindu philosophy says about the Big Bang?

If they are not Buddhist or Hindu. From Zeeya Merali at Aeon: The discussion has gone on ever since. I partook in 2014, while researching my book, A Big Bang in a Little Room (2017), about experiments on recreating the origins of the Universe in the lab. Not only did I meet with Ashtekar at Read More…

Karen McMannus In Hawkings A Brief History of Time, Hawkings wrote that the universe, "Just Is." I wrote him and asked, "why... – Stephen Hawking was Sometimes Embarrassingly Stupid
polistra This also fits the complex-first template. The ipsilateral plus bilateral arrangement requires a lot of coordination and trickery in the... – Would you believe… that the brain-eye...
martin_r News> Isn’t this becoming a trend? just yesterday i posted the same here, and also the day before yesterday... and... – Would you believe… that the brain-eye...
Pearlman per Pearlman YeC: considering the one year that was the 1656 anno-mundi impacts year, aka global flood by Noach accounts... – Günter Bechly: Paper says Cambrian Explosion...
Mung Upright Biped, you need to learn how to lie. – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...
Mung No. My brain appeared circa 1959. – Would you believe… that the brain-eye...
Karen McMannus Speckle – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...
Silver Asiatic Seversky The phenomenon or entity has not been observed to result from natural processes and it resembles what human beings... – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...
Silver Asiatic Seversky What I do not accept – and neither, apparently, do many of those working in this field – is... – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...
JVL Upright BiPed: Yes JVL, you go lay down for a while. Those mean ID proponents are only picking on you... – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...
Silver Asiatic JVL No, that’s not the whole criteria. Well, I actually came up with that scenario to help you out -... – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...
polistra Amazing. We reinvented this function with System Restore on computers. Billions of years late as usual. – More Pseudogene Function
mohammadnursyamsu The fact that organisms exhibit functionally integrated complexity, is evidence that they came to be by sophisticated decisionmaking processes, intelligent... – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...
Upright BiPed Yes JVL, you go lay down for a while. Those mean ID proponents are only picking on you for using... – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...
JVL Upright BiPed: And neither can address it. I think I will quit for a while at least. I'm tired. Tired... – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...
JVL Silver Asiatic: So, it’s not a matter of independently looking at the evidence, but rather of assigning value to proposal... – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...
Silver Asiatic Seversky @444 That's an excellent response - thank you. There are subtle points that miss the target but the detailed... – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...
Upright BiPed . One uses a gratuitous double standard to ignore the evidence, the other merely requires a logical impossibility. Birds of... – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...
JVL Seversky: I think that in spite of your valiant efforts you are not going to make any further headway. IDCists... – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...
Silver Asiatic Here's a possible solution. I framed JVL's position something like this (and he agreed): "I’m not an expert and I... – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...
Seversky JVL, I think that in spite of your valiant efforts you are not going to make any further headway. IDCists... – From Philip Cunningham: The human eye,...