@kellyjay saidIn the first place I don't have a 'belief system' whatever that is, which relates to anything supernatural. And indeed my mind is simply the end result of 'all the reactions that brought me here', so is yours, and so what? What kind of control do you think you have had over the development of your mind? Some of that which we are is genetically determined, the rest we learn from experience, but we are all of us capable of free thought, you no less than I, and visa versa.
I don't think you are thinking these things through, shackles according to your
belief system is bottom-up determination due to chemical reactions taking place,
there are no choices here only A followed by B followed by C and so on. You mind
would simply be the end result of all the reactions that brought you here, nothing
more, a different reaction a different you, nothing about you could avoid that.
@kellyjay saidYou're also fine with saying that snakes can talk, and that a talking snake is the same as an airplane, that the earth is 6000 years old, and that things written a couple of thousand years ago are true, regardless of how they fly in the face of current proven scientific knowledge. I think we can take anything which you are fine with saying with a large pinch of salt.
I'm fine saying that the universe is fine-tuned to support life, I'm fine with saying
that the functionally complex systems that direct life's processes are by design. I'm
fine with saying that an uncaused, cause that transcends space, time, matter, and
energy created space, time, matter, and energy they did not create themselves. Do
you have an explanation, or must you punt, hoping someday someone will come
up with one?
@indonesia-phil saidEven so, would you still be willing to play Canasta under patio lights with @KellyJay?
You're also fine with saying that snakes can talk, and that a talking snake is the same as an airplane, that the earth is 6000 years old, and that things written a couple of thousand years ago are true, regardless of how they fly in the face of current proven scientific knowledge. I think we can take anything which you are fine with saying with a large pinch of salt.
@indonesia-phil saidYou have a hypothetical possibility that explains the universe it’s fine tuning, and a hypothesis that covers the origin of life and all of the mysteries surrounding that which only has elements which everyone would agree are less supernatural than a snake talking?
You're also fine with saying that snakes can talk, and that a talking snake is the same as an airplane, that the earth is 6000 years old, and that things written a couple of thousand years ago are true, regardless of how they fly in the face of current proven scientific knowledge. I think we can take anything which you are fine with saying with a large pinch of salt.
Why is there something rather than nothing?
