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Originally posted by RJHindsso magic is more believable than science?
You can believe in your religion of Atheism if you like, however, I think Christianity
is more believable to me. HalleluYah !!! 😏
Originally posted by RJHindsOur understanding of Gravity and Electro-magnetism are both still theoretical.
You are wrong on both counts. There are scientific laws dealing with both
gravity and electromagnetism. Laws have been proven.
http://www.jimloy.com/physics/gravity.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_induction
Originally posted by PenguinOh I have explained it countless times and he still wont listen.
Our understanding of Gravity and Electro-magnetism are both still theoretical.
Newton may have discovered a universal 'law' of gravitation but it is only an approximation and has been proved not to be completely accurate. It has not been proved, but dis-proved (despite being accurate enough for most purposes). Where greater accuracy is required, Einstein' ...[text shortened]... here it is again:
http://chemistry.about.com/od/chemistry101/a/lawtheory.htm
--- Penguin
Originally posted by RJHindsScientific laws generally describe a phenomenon but do not attempt to explain it. Scientific theories attempt to explain a phenomenon and do not have to be proven. they only have to be disprovable and not yet disproved.
Religions do not have to be proven. Scientific facts have to be proven. That
is why evolution is called a theory because it has not been proven in science.
P.S. Atheism has not been proven either. HalleluYah !!! 😏
Originally posted by googlefudgeReality (and thus Truth) to a sentient being is just its experienced reality (a sentient being can neither know its non-experienced reality, nor perceive its experienced reality objectively because the projections of its consciousness are both purely subjective and empty of inherent being).
There can be but one truth (or set of truth) about the reality we live in.
Out of the infinite possible options for what that truth might be the only way of telling is
by testing ideas against reality to see which stand up to scrutiny and which don't.
No religion does this.
But science does.
Science is the only known way of objectively test ...[text shortened]... lity we live in and thus the only path to discovering the truth about the reality we live
in.
Originally posted by PenguinI understand the difference between laws and theories.
Our understanding of Gravity and Electro-magnetism are both still theoretical.
Newton may have discovered a universal 'law' of gravitation but it is only an approximation and has been proved not to be completely accurate. It has not been proved, but dis-proved (despite being accurate enough for most purposes). Where greater accuracy is required, Einstein' ...[text shortened]... here it is again:
http://chemistry.about.com/od/chemistry101/a/lawtheory.htm
--- Penguin
Originally posted by CalJustWhy would you think that? I am fairly sure the OP does not say that nor imply it. Why the strawman? Do you have no defence for what is actually contained in the OP?
Is the basic premise here that just because there are X different versions of Reality (whether 313 or 10,000 is immaterial), they must of necessity all be wrong??
Originally posted by black beetle"Objectivity the way you pose it, is non existent" ("You" being GF.)
Reality (and thus Truth) to a sentient being is just its experienced reality (a sentient being can neither know its non-experienced reality, nor perceive its experienced reality objectively because the projections of its consciousness are both purely subjective and empty of inherent being).
This deeply subjective experienced reality triggers various ...[text shortened]... mic object we agreed to name "same car".
Objectivity the way you pose it, is non existent😵
Originally posted by JS357Black beetle wants to disappear in a big cloud of solipsism.
"Objectivity the way you pose it, is non existent" ("You" being GF.)
Is there a way objectivity can be posed, by which way it is existent? Does this way render objectivity to be other than a word for the subject matter of intersubjective agreement? I ask non-rhetorically.
Originally posted by JS357I mean that objectivity is not existent as if there were a reality out there that can be conceived the same way by all the sentient beings, as our googlefudge insists. I argue that what is meant with the term "objectivity" is merely the consensus of our collective subjectivity as regards either a specific falsifiable theory of reality that can be evaluated as accurate or false herenow according to specific scientific and philosophical procedures that must be followed during its evaluation, or the validation of an orthogonal event
"Objectivity the way you pose it, is non existent" ("You" being GF.)
Is there a way objectivity can be posed, by which way it is existent? Does this way render objectivity to be other than a word for the subject matter of intersubjective agreement? I ask non-rhetorically.
Originally posted by googlefudgeI will surely not disappear in the cloud of the superstitious belief that objectivity is possible for the time being; and methinks that solipsism is not by my side but by yours, because your thesis is that the reality you perceive is separated from your own consciousness and that it exists as if it were identical to its mapping of yours, a mapping that you made up by means of using your perception and its projections. Well, whenever you feel up to it, kindly please feel free to prove here or at another thread that your thesis holds😵
Black beetle wants to disappear in a big cloud of solipsism.
Which is one of the big issues with philosophy and philosophers.