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  1. Laughing Coyote

    circumstantial evidence to Gods existence

    But why, necessarily need this be Hindu, or that many elements of Hinduism that are supposed to follow from this actually do? Each of the things can be proven false from the standpoint of Hinduism can be done so from the standpoint of metaphysics coming out of the Greeks (which has shared...
  2. Laughing Coyote

    circumstantial evidence to Gods existence

    What does that prove? Each of the other combinations would have the same possibility. Yet one must come up.
  3. Laughing Coyote

    circumstantial evidence to Gods existence

    The concept of the deity being outside ourselves and outside the earth is a characteristic of prophetic religions, which generally appeared in the Neolithic with invention of an agriculture based on annual grains (which require regular plowing up and obliteration of the ecosystems that we live...
  4. Laughing Coyote

    circumstantial evidence to Gods existence

    What you are saying is that what is required is accepting vera causa. But if not, what basis do you give? How can you know a miracle, or something we call chaos theory, is actually miracle or chaos and not simply something beyond our capability to understand it? I think the ecologist Wes Jackson...
  5. Laughing Coyote

    circumstantial evidence to Gods existence

    He's content with it because Descartes dispensed with metaphysics, which questions what we mean by knowable. ;)
  6. Laughing Coyote

    circumstantial evidence to Gods existence

    Courts don't ascertain truth, they rather provide a means to make decisions over how convincing an argument seems to be, consistent with the ability of the judge to appraise the consistency and ability of the jury (or judge, depending on whether court or jury is making the decision) to appraise...
  7. Laughing Coyote

    circumstantial evidence to Gods existence

    It's evidence of something, but you still need some kind of further evidence for asserting it is something called "God," and even more so that it is what one a priori assumes to be the nature of God. Without that you are prematurely jumping to conclusion.
  8. Laughing Coyote

    each year many unborn babies are deliberately aborted.

    For God life is sacred, yes, but from God's perspective the living planet itself as a living entity is what is sacred. Regarding individuals and particularly those that treat the planet as profane, God is indifferent or even antagonistic. Humans as a whole will soon find this out as we destroy...
  9. Laughing Coyote

    each year many unborn babies are deliberately aborted.

    Actually most eggs which are fertilized never set themselves in the wall of the uterus.
  10. Laughing Coyote

    Do the Jews, Christians and Muslims worship the same God....?

    It is kind of strange, isn't it? God supposedly created everything. One would think that in the variety and the complexity of the creation you would be led to think that if anything, God is infinite possibilities. Yet each of us groups of humans, all of of common descent whether you believe in...
  11. Laughing Coyote

    Do the Jews, Christians and Muslims worship the same God....?

    Alfred North Whitehead in "Science and Modern World," discusses in great detail something similar (though I'd describe it as something more than cult, given science's institutional development and general recognition), in the sense of Science being in the Prophetic tradition. Science has...
  12. Laughing Coyote

    Do the Jews, Christians and Muslims worship the same God....?

    I'd think that Muslims, who split off from Judaism only see him as just one of the prophets, whereas Mohammad is said to be the bearer the last authentic word from god, which like previous prophets trumps the ones that come before. Philosophy does something analogous: with the rise of new...
  13. Laughing Coyote

    Do the Jews, Christians and Muslims worship the same God....?

    It is a little more complicated than Jews simply rejecting him. In the early years until Paul, Christianity was basically a Jewish sect as I understand it until the Roman citizen and Jew, Saul of Tarsus, had his Epiphany and began ministering to both Jews and Romans. I have heard Rabbis say that...
  14. Laughing Coyote

    Do the Jews, Christians and Muslims worship the same God....?

    . ... and branched, and branched and branched.
  15. Laughing Coyote

    Are Humans Animals

    It is more complicated than trial and error, although trial and error are the basis of learning. New possibilities appear through error in reproduction, called mutation, and life puts them to use to solve problems or take advantage of new possibilities. It is like things happen seemingly...
  16. Laughing Coyote

    Are Humans Animals

    What is the basis for this assertion? How do you define "kingdom" in your usage here? Why do you say minerals are a kingdom of life? I'll point out that evolutionary biologists now accept existence of 6 different kingdoms "Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Archaea/Archaeabacteria, and...
  17. Laughing Coyote

    Economic consequences of Evolution vs. Creation.

    That's curious. Name one.
  18. Laughing Coyote

    Economic consequences of Evolution vs. Creation.

    It is curious how people who know nothing about the science of evolution put up straw men which they can then easily knock down without having to make any effort to undertstand evolution. Your initial premise that you give for truth of theory actually has nothing to do with science and is just...
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