Geoffrey Simmons – Uncommon Descent

Animal minds Intelligent Design Science fiction

A science fiction writer explains why he thinks life is more than just matter

Geoffrey Simmons, author of The Adam Experiment, points out that many animals and even bacteria show behavior that seems like thinking.

PyrrhoManiac1 @68 However, as I pointed out @ 52, to me, the fundamental problem with the Christian God (I’m not familiar... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
kairosfocus Origenes, yup. A clue as to what is going on. KF – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
kairosfocus PM1, Marx is simply trying to discredit his critics as class conditioned, but of course HIS reasoning is science. See... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
PyrrhoManiac1 I'm reluctant to get into yet another go-around about Marx or Marxism. All I'll say (for now) is that it's... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Origenes KF @259 It seems that Darwin's horrid doubt about the human mind ONLY comes up when things point to intelligent... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
AnimatedDust CD @ 58: That question is answered very early in the first chapter of Genesis. The short answer is because... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
jerry but why he needed to create it in the first place But He did! So deal with that. Not make... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
chuckdarwin Belfast/58 The qualitative difference, then, between an Abrahamic God, and a universal intelligence, or spirit, or force which runs the... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
AnimatedDust Jerry @ 65: Well said. Either we conform our desires to the truth, or we conform the truth to our... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
PyrrhoManiac1 @58 Thanks, that is a helpful exegesis of Spinoza's position. I would add a few further points, hopefully this clarifies... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
jerry But demanding that scientists prove the unguided OoL by producing life in a lab certainly speaks volumes about the reasoning... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Origenes StephenB Ori: Ted is made by God, so, Ted is a secondary cause. God is the necessary/sufficient cause of the... – Aquinas, Ockham, and Descartes about God....
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...