That's no excuse for inaccuracy.
Why should the fact that you like the idea of freewill make it any more extant. You have to prove that free will exists. Unfortunately this is impossible to do. In order to prove free will you have to show that both choices can be made, which would require some sort of serious screwing with reality.
Just because something seems ridiculous to you does not make it wrong. I suspect that if you told somebody in 1100 AD that in the future there will be a machine that allows people to heat food without fire they would call you an idiot and declare you deranged. But it's happened.
Except you keep misconstruing this philosophy. You cannot access the subconscious mind. That's why it's called the
subconscious. There's no way to predict what's going on because the system that creates what happens is inaccessible.
The problem with your argument is that the end resulted "hallucination" is still a distortion of things one has already experienced through their senses, or thought processes. A concept such as a divine being can't be created as a distortion of anything on earth because it is just too unique and complicated.[/quote]
You are not listening. There is no reality. Ever. None at all. In this system, only the individual's mind exists. Furthermore, it's very easy to extrapolate a divine being from things on earth.
ArticleFeuerbach essentially states that God is just a reflection of man's self. God is man made perfect. Strip away the negative emotions, the mistaken judgements, the frailities of man, and you have God. Nothing more. Why is it that we never see God doing anything a man would not do in holy books. Better than that, why don't we see God doing something that is outside the time period? If God was something other than a reflection of man, these things we would surely see.
Yes. Because all that chance has to do is put things in positions where the physical laws allow other things to happen. They was no planning, the positions of atoms in rocks is all noise. It matters not, so why does it need to be planned. The laws just say that the atoms stay together somehow. Not why, not in what arrangement, just that they stick together.
Competition. There were a lot of organisms, so once a few of them developed by chance the ability to leave the water and seek food on land (because plants had been there for a long time, competing for sunlight), they were able to reproduce significantly. Being able to live on land was a huge evolutionary advantage. Life finds a way. It's what it does.
I find it simply remarkable. You quoted me asking for sources. You actually quoted that exact line. And then your rebuttal doesn't offer a source. Whereas every single time I have offered sources for my arguments. Please make an effort.
This energy came about the same way that you have to justify the existence of God. They exist because they have to. Pure force of logic says "if we are here, there must have been a neccessary cause." Again, just because you cannot understand how something could happen doesn't make it wrong. The way the Zero-Point Field manifest itself now is in small spikes of energy, these spikes balance out when you get to distances we usually work with, so we don't notice most of the time. But if something like that happened before the big bang, when nothing else was there, it could be pretty phenomenal. Universe-creating perhaps?
All of the links in that section were from Wikipedia. You can search for the articles if the link failed. I specifically said there is no matter. What you have is a speck of energy, that's it. It's got a lot of energy in that small size though, and that energy ends up creating the matter, through
pair production.
The books of the Bible were selected by the Second Council of Nicea. Likely they chose those books that fit well with each other. Also, the books offer many contradictions across each other, showing that they were not all neccesarily correct. For example, there are four books, I believe John, Matthew, Luke, and Paul (perhaps I am wrong), which all tell of the same events, yet each one tells them differently. Events are left out or reordered in the accounts, yet they all cover the same time period. That's not very consistent now is it?
The fact that the truth sucks does not make it any less the truth. People die. And death sucks, but people still die. The universe doesn't care.
Regardless of how you describe it, it's still the same that slaving to God is very good and not doing so is very bad. Hmm, those incentives don't seem in any way stacked in favor of those who control what God "says" to do...
