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  1. Autodidact

    Christians: Why aren't you Muslim?

    It's a simple question. A one-word answer would do. I'm not asking how devout your parents were. All I'm asking is, what was their religion? Here are some choices: Christian Muslim Atheist Jewish Hindu. Number of Muslims in England before the 17th century? I don't really know. I'll guess...not...
  2. Autodidact

    Christians: Why aren't you Muslim?

    There are thousands of Muslim immigrants in England, and all over Europe.
  3. Autodidact

    Christians: Why aren't you Muslim?

    What kind of culture did you inherit, Bismillah, Hindu, Jewish, Christian or Muslim?
  4. Autodidact

    Five Reasons to Believe in God

    I'm not following you. There is always only one outcome for any event. (except quantum events.) Can't a choice be a result?
  5. Autodidact

    Christians: Why aren't you Muslim?

    But does not take into account the wars of conquest in which Islam conquered a huge swath of the world, and imposed Jiziyah on infidels.
  6. Autodidact

    Christians: Why aren't you Muslim?

    So you were raised Muslim in a Muslim family?
  7. Autodidact

    Christians: Why aren't you Muslim?

    That's interesting, how there are no more Christians, Jews or Hindus. What religion was your birth family, Bismillah? What religion were you raised in?
  8. Autodidact

    God hates amputees...science cures.

    Oddly, God happens to give us that knowledge right about the time we devout huge amounts of time to applying the scientific method to reality. You know, the method that relies on naturalism, and assumes that we can learn about reality without God coming into it. Funny, that.
  9. Autodidact

    Five Reasons to Believe in God

    Well, if the computer has enough squish, enough randomness and variability built into its program, as we do, then there could be many outcomes, and you could not predict which you would get.
  10. Autodidact

    Five Reasons to Believe in God

    I want you to meet my internet friend, febble. I may have to search for her. This is exactly what she said, when she was a Christian similar to you. She says, when she solved the free will problem by conceiving of it differently, she became an atheist. or possibly an agnostic, don't remember for...
  11. Autodidact

    Five Reasons to Believe in God

    Remember, there is a we, it's just identical with those physical processes. Sometimes you assent, sometimes not. No, we're not the RESULT of biological process, we ARE the biological process. This is an important distinction. No. The biological process is us choosing. Not emerges from. Is...
  12. Autodidact

    Five Reasons to Believe in God

    I'm going to question this. In what way? I'll hold off on saying more until you respond, because I don't want to jump to conclusions.
  13. Autodidact

    Five Reasons to Believe in God

    Mind is an emergent property of the brain. When a brain operates, you get mind. How can it be mindless? You keep talking about a "we" as if it was separate from the body. The neurons firing is US. That's us making a choice. There is no other "we" to control it.
  14. Autodidact

    Five Reasons to Believe in God

    No, us deciding really IS the nuerons firing. Not the outcome. That's us. We're the neurons. We're firing. That's us deciding.
  15. Autodidact

    Five Reasons to Believe in God

    I've never thought that people can choose their beliefs, and find the idea that we can rather odd.
  16. Autodidact

    Five Reasons to Believe in God

    There is no we apart from the neurons firing. Neurons firing = us deciding. Um...I think you're getting past my limited knowledge of neuro-science. Sensory stimuli?
  17. Autodidact

    Five Reasons to Believe in God

    Well, I guess I'd say we're both, because at no point is our physical being static;it's always processing. So we're a physical being that is actively doing stuff. e.g. breathing. Lungs, bronchial tubes, etc., flexing, filling. All of that, the body doing its thing; that's me. All over, quite a...
  18. Autodidact

    Five Reasons to Believe in God

    I do. And I think my friends all us Aristotelians do. I think of virtue as the science of happiness, happiness as the purpose of our lives, and virtue the best way to achieve it.
  19. Autodidact

    Five Reasons to Believe in God

    Us. That whole process = us making a choice. I don't know that it's inevitable. I have always thought, since reading IIRC Epicurus, that it makes absolutely no difference to anything whether all of life is predetermined or not. Notice, as soon as you say, "conscious control," you are...
  20. Autodidact

    Speciation

    O.K., so when your source, the one you quoted, treated bacteria as a "kind," he was...what? And when you referred to a creature as being possum kind, even though not a marsupial, you were...what? And when you claimed that something is in the cat "kind" because it kind of looks something like a...
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