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It is not the lack of ability to demonstrate the justification specifically in this case but the more general claim that everything must have a cause except your god which you claim is the exception. that you cannot demonstrate the existence of this exception only compounds the problem with your claim to its exceptionality.
This is a consequence of using imprecise language. You should be clear about what you mean, and if you can't be, you should expect miscommunication to occur.
I don't have a problem with any of that except that we do understand the mechanism in the main.
Why would he grant that? He disagrees with you. So do I.
That's special pleading right there. Why do those properties matter in this context? You never say. The only difference between a god and a multiverse is that the former is considered a conscious, volitional agent. That changes nothing in this discussion. Either can serve as a source for our universe. Either could have always existed, been caused by something prior (oh look! causality connected to temporality), or come into being uncaused (please forgive me, @ratiocinator; I understand your objection; maybe the third is incoherent).
As I understand it, Mexican food has been so corrupted by outside influences that you won't find anything specifically Mexican, rather just many things using available ingredients prepared by people with some relationship to the general area. In short, if you use ingredients generally available and make soup, then it would qualify as somebody probably made it that way at some point.
OK, thank you. I'll try again. Maybe I'm just not expressing myself well enough. So I'll try again. Let's see -- do you think scientists know how the first living cell came into existence? Maybe there are dead cells, I suppose there are. But do scientists really know how the first living cell that started the path of evolution came about? Did you understand that?
Yes, I say this with a smile on my face.
Sometimes speakers and writers do use words incorrectly. It is fair to recognize that. This seems more like an attempt to justify belief and place blame on the reader rather than use the best facts and respond constructively when the speaker/writer errors are pointed out.
Is this a threat or a plea?
I find this the most ironic.
I think the mistake results from the fact that what you present is best described as a belief system with claims delivered as revealed truth.
I'd ask for examples and an explanation for why this is relevant in a discussion of biology or science, but I have zero expectation that I would receive a valid response if any.
The errors exist and need correcting. The understanding isn't theistic. I think you say that because most of your claims are rejected as unsubstantiated belief by an non-expert.
Some of us theists understand the science.
More irony. You get requests for this more than any person on here I think. And ignore them routinely from the evidence of these threads.
It isn't nonsense. The nonsense is declaring it false without an validation. I get that you believe you know that every individual is a different species, how nonsensical and illogical that is. Revealed truth is not science.
No evidence to support that and much to call it a very poor and useless conclusion.
You don't seem to agree based on what you want to believe and not on a knowledge and understanding of the subject.
Another example. You claim that Homo sapiens are extinct for thousands of years when the species was only described 250 years ago based on the existing species. It doesn't make sense to claim that we are extinct, when we are here now. Then you create your own taxonomy with a secret definition and use it as if it has some widely recognized meaning. What does that communicate? To me it communicates a lack of understanding and a flight of fantasy that has no value in science.
More claims about Homo sapiens that are inconsistent with the evidence.
Based on this and other posts, I can't imagine how you intend to keep people interested in discussing anything with you. Your posting is closed to anything that you don't believe or didn't come up with no matter how farfetched it is.
OK, thank you. I'll try again. Maybe I'm just not expressing myself well enough. So I'll try again. Let's see -- do you think scientists know how the first living cell came into existence? Maybe there are dead cells, I suppose there are. But do scientists really know how the first living cell that started the path of evolution came about? Did you understand that?
Because that is not what I am asking. I'm asking what you think about the first cell, living that is. It certainly can be-seems to be-connected with abiogenesis, but I'm not asking about abiogenesis.
Reviewing your post, John53, I often wonder how people think Moses knew that life began on this earth. For instance -- discerning life around us before there were instruments capable of detecting age in fossils and other elements, we see earth, soil, rocks, animals, vegetables, stars, etc, many might wonder how did it all get here? They might also think maybe green grass, etc., animals, were always here.
I have had some hope, perhaps misguided, that stark criticism might inspire a reduction in the reliance on the seeming science fan fiction dogma and encourage a paradigm shift to a more rational approach. It was a Hail Mary with little chance of success.
Yeah, I guess I am lucky, 35k people but a college town so we have Korean, South-east Asian, Halal stores etc and Hispanic and SouthAsian each get a whole long Isle plus in our giant grocery stores. That said, I couldn't get Kafir lime leaves except online and a friend does have to drive 50 miles for the African market if he wants goat etc. Anyhow, you have Nagi whose recipes I will attempt with modification whenever I Google the list of stuff in my regrigerator but don't know what to make and one of her's comes up.
That sounds like an opportunity and the basis for a burgeoning business. You could be the Australian king of Mexican food.