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In reply to the discussion: Perspective... [View all]edhopper
(33,575 posts)48. That would only be true
if supernaturalities had no effect on the physical Universe, including it's creation.
If that is your claim, then yes there is nothing to study, but if that is so, why even propose a super natural entity that has no effect.
I don't buy into the non-overlapping magisteria.
If you are talking about purely philosophical arguments for God, there is a very long thread about this already.
BTW. There have been scientific investigations into the super natural, with uniformly negative results.
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Except the Torah (and the other books beyond those five), the New Testament, and the Quran proclaim
rug
Feb 2014
#3
well no, the cosmology of the time had "the heavens" as a shell around earth.
Warren Stupidity
Feb 2014
#7
I was respoinding to your absurd claim regarding the biblical cosmology.
Warren Stupidity
Feb 2014
#15
I made no claim about cosmology. The absurd claim about biblical cosmology is in the OP.
rug
Feb 2014
#24
When backed into a corner by one's own statements, best to pretend that
Warren Stupidity
Mar 2014
#67
That's an interesting series of charts, and it might help me understand something about
struggle4progress
Feb 2014
#6
That's nice, except this graphic wasn't intended to help you with any of that.
cleanhippie
Feb 2014
#9
An "object" like "the Virgo Supercluster" is just a way of organizing certain detector data
struggle4progress
Feb 2014
#14
You would do better to discuss your own views, rather than putting words in others' mouths
struggle4progress
Feb 2014
#19
That, in my view, is not and cannot be a scientific theory, as I have often said here for years
struggle4progress
Feb 2014
#22
The poster in #18 purports to tell me what my religion says, my views notwithstanding
struggle4progress
Feb 2014
#51
Maybe you need a nap? Maybe have some milk and cookies after you're rested?
struggle4progress
Feb 2014
#61
I consider your philosophy of science murky. Let us try to make our ideas clear
struggle4progress
Feb 2014
#40
I provided a philosophical analysis, explaining why I think physics does not and cannot
struggle4progress
Feb 2014
#45
If something happens counter to known laws then the laws are wrong and will be reworked.
eomer
Mar 2014
#72
Actually, Hawking has shown that nothingness conditions prior to the bing bang
AtheistCrusader
Feb 2014
#46
If you wish to reason from crude summaries, and to introduce further physical hypotheses
struggle4progress
Feb 2014
#54
That presumes that the God of the Bible (or the Torah or Koran or any other faith)
el_bryanto
Feb 2014
#21
People seem to forget that YHWH is a tribal god, born from a polytheistic pantheon...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2014
#70