Forum: Current Events, Philosophy, & Religion
04-25-2009, 12:13 AM
|
Replies: 40
Views: 4,763
|
Forum: Current Events, Philosophy, & Religion
04-20-2009, 12:29 AM
|
Replies: 40
Views: 4,763
|
Forum: Current Events, Philosophy, & Religion
04-20-2009, 12:07 AM
|
Replies: 40
Views: 4,763
the two big ones i was thinking of are bohmian...
the two big ones i was thinking of are bohmian mechanics (which tries to give an actual particle trajectory account of quantum observations, even gets around Bell's theorem by giving up locality) and...
|
Forum: Current Events, Philosophy, & Religion
04-19-2009, 11:53 PM
|
Replies: 40
Views: 4,763
there are several interpretations of quantum...
there are several interpretations of quantum mechanics that retain causality, so it's not quite time to throw it out the window. however, even if you say quantum processes are indeterminate, that's...
|
Forum: Current Events, Philosophy, & Religion
04-14-2009, 06:49 PM
|
Replies: 40
Views: 4,763
|
Forum: Current Events, Philosophy, & Religion
04-14-2009, 04:20 PM
|
Replies: 40
Views: 4,763
|
Forum: Current Events, Philosophy, & Religion
04-14-2009, 11:39 AM
|
Replies: 40
Views: 4,763
just because you can show one event 'caused'...
just because you can show one event 'caused' another, that is, that when one event occurs the other usually happens after it, doesn't mean you've explained either event, or the connection, does it?...
|
Forum: Current Events, Philosophy, & Religion
04-14-2009, 11:04 AM
|
Replies: 40
Views: 4,763
well if you say that everything contingent...
well if you say that everything contingent requires an explanation, and God is the only necessary entity, then you've set it up so that every explanation eventually leads back to God, and you really...
|
Forum: Current Events, Philosophy, & Religion
04-14-2009, 10:57 AM
|
Replies: 40
Views: 4,763
|
Forum: Current Events, Philosophy, & Religion
04-14-2009, 10:52 AM
|
Replies: 40
Views: 4,763
It's a skewed reasoning since it leads to...
It's a skewed reasoning since it leads to infinite regress when you ask for an explanation of God's existence, I don't see any problem with side-stepping God and saying the Universe perpetuates...
|