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Concept of 'hypercosmic God' wins Templeton Prize (Quantum Mechanics meets Metaphysics?)
New Scientist ^
| 16 March 2009
| Amanda Gefter
Posted on 03/16/2009 4:29:12 PM PDT by GOPGuide
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To: Lucky Dog
Aristotle's “Metaphysics”
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posted on
03/16/2009 6:49:32 PM PDT
by
Hoosier-Daddy
("It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
To: workerbee
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posted on
03/16/2009 6:51:29 PM PDT
by
Hoosier-Daddy
("It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
To: Hoosier-Daddy
Aristotle's Metaphysics
That was the first argument I presented, albeit, in a slightly different form from the original.
To: GOPGuide
To: GOPGuide
I was just having fun! No yelling intended! I just love this stuff.
To: SunkenCiv
bookmarking for later . . .
Thanks for the ping . . . good topic!
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posted on
03/16/2009 7:30:25 PM PDT
by
callisto
(CONGRESS.EXE corrupted... Re-boot Washington D.C? (Y/N))
To: GOPGuide
I am an agnosticYou'll get hit both ways then.
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posted on
03/16/2009 7:44:47 PM PDT
by
1010RD
(First Do No Harm)
To: SirJohnBarleycorn
You are right. Well thought and well said.
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posted on
03/16/2009 7:46:13 PM PDT
by
1010RD
(First Do No Harm)
To: callisto
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posted on
03/16/2009 7:46:37 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
To: LomanBill
But, he started out as Jehovah. He made himself known at a time and place and to a people first.
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posted on
03/16/2009 7:48:43 PM PDT
by
1010RD
(First Do No Harm)
To: GOPGuide
"And for precisely this reason, it would be nonsensical to paint it with the figure of a personal God or attribute to it specific concerns or commandments."To someone who has encountered a personal God, a personal God makes perfect sense. To someone who has looked into the biblical model of what it means to really love others, commandments makes sense for they help teach us what love is and is not.
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posted on
03/16/2009 7:52:55 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
(Impeach and Deport)
To: MHGinTN
References, please?
Cheers!
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posted on
03/16/2009 7:57:19 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: Hot Tabasco
That happens to me all the time. I come up with the best ideas and then I find out some degreed type gets all the credit.
There aughta be a law!
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posted on
03/16/2009 7:59:37 PM PDT
by
1010RD
(First Do No Harm)
To: wildandcrazyrussian; GOPGuide
Moreover, if our current reality, let’s call it mortality, is just a temporary state, then we cannot truly rely upon the “laws” we’ve experienced to describe all the available information in the cosmos.
That is there is a cosmos, whose laws are unknown to us, governing our cosmos which is temporary.
An analogy would be trying to understand juggling by just noting a nanosecond of the balls trip upwards. We’d miss a big part of the act, no?
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posted on
03/16/2009 8:02:23 PM PDT
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1010RD
(First Do No Harm)
To: ETL
What a great name. Is it really Johnjoe?
It would take a hillbilly to lead science out of the painted corner, no?
Isn’t the argument against evolution one of first causes? How does the inanimate, non-biological become animate and biological?
Or how does the stone come to life?
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posted on
03/16/2009 8:06:40 PM PDT
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1010RD
(First Do No Harm)
To: editor-surveyor
Great point. This has limited our ability to “discover” or uncover science for a long time. Breakthroughs come when someone can relate it out, no?
How do you resolve it? Is it possible to investigate/analyze/understand the indescribable?
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posted on
03/16/2009 8:09:08 PM PDT
by
1010RD
(First Do No Harm)
To: DannyTN; LomanBill; editor-surveyor; SunkenCiv
I find it fascinating that, in the first attempt to reconfigure G-d, the technical predisposition is to presume omnipotence while simultaneously precluding Divine persona, as if We are saying that He can be anything but a person. It is a strange compulsion to place limits on the unlimited.
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posted on
03/16/2009 8:10:18 PM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(The environment is too complex and too important to manage by central planning.)
To: workerbee
I didn’t realize that God was into baubles.
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posted on
03/16/2009 8:11:40 PM PDT
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(The inmates are now officially running the asylum.)
To: MHGinTN
You are on to it. Time is the issue.
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posted on
03/16/2009 8:13:01 PM PDT
by
1010RD
(First Do No Harm)
To: editor-surveyor
Yet, if time is the issue and the final anomaly is discoverable only at death, the results of which cannot be reported, then what?
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posted on
03/16/2009 8:15:28 PM PDT
by
1010RD
(First Do No Harm)
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