Future of Humanity Institute – Uncommon Descent

Extraterrestrial life Fine tuning Intelligent Design

Life is rare in the universe—IF there is no design

It would make a lot of sense for astrobiologists to be fans of intelligent design theory. Eventually, they will fall and hit their heads and realize that.

kairosfocus Origenes, PM1 is trying to put a wall of partition between convictions, intuition, reasoning and arguing. This may well reflect... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
kairosfocus PPS, well do I remember the advice that when one gets truly stuck on a geometry problem, take a break,... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Origenes KF ~ Charles Darwin & self-referential incoherence. On the other hand, if we consider the whole universe, the mind refuses... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
kairosfocus PM1, he is tracing the imagined discredit of mind and its convictions to ancestry as he imagines. Notice, he does... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
kairosfocus F/N: I should add from Marx, Communist Manifesto, Ch 2: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch02.htm But don’t wrangle with us so long as you... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
jerry It’s interesting the extent to which people will make up gobbledygook in order to justify being against something. The universe... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
PyrrhoManiac1 In re: 251 and 253, I really do think you are badly misreading what Darwin is actually saying. He is... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Origenes DogDoc @56 I think it might help for you to reconsider each of these questions, but instead of asking how... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
bornagain77 Belfast at 58 and 60. Thanks. – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
bornagain77 And in the following video, the late Isabel Piczek, who made a 3-D sculpture from the Shroud of Turin states... – Has string theory really fallen this...
bornagain77 So again, and mathematically speaking, the main problem unifying Quantum Mechanics with General Relativity is that there is apparently an... – Has string theory really fallen this...
bornagain77 The first paragraph of the article states, "String theory began over 50 years ago as a way to understand the... – Has string theory really fallen this...
kairosfocus PM1, I think I should add some remarks. First, the letter, which is not easy to find as there is... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
kairosfocus Origenes [attn FP, JVL & Sandy]: it is manifest that if chemistry was valid 3 - 5 BYA, it is... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
kairosfocus PM1, precisely. CRD was playing logic with a swivel, when it is massively evident that Math is as abstract, abstruse... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Querius Belfast @60, One who “accepts” Spinoza’s God need not worry about origin of the universe – the universe IS God,... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
kairosfocus FP, piling on on a widespread, intentional slander speaks volumes, not in your favour. We are all aware of how... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
StephenB Origenes: Ted is made by God, so, Ted is a secondary cause. God is the necessary/sufficient cause of the secondary... – Aquinas, Ockham, and Descartes about God....
Querius Dogdoc @56, But assuming that the meaning of the word “god” does entail being the creator of everything, how do... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
Belfast Viola Lee @59. I doubt if anyone here would even fleetingly think that you were one who sneers at another’s... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
Viola Lee I believe one can believe that the Christian God does not exist and the beliefs of Christianity are not true... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...