Spirits and Souls 18 Jun 201122 Jun 2018 Does Calamities of Nature read this blog? Or just Sean Carroll? Epistemology Humor Metaphysics Philosophy Religion Science Philosophy
Humor Atheists should not be seen or heard 11 Mar 2009 According to this cartoon, hat tip to Tangled Up in Blue Guy : [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8CtVhVImBM&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] Read More
Epistemology Phylogeny, induction, and the straight rule of homology 8 Jan 201122 Jun 2018 Continuing my “natural classification” series, which I am writing with Dr Malte Ebach of UNSW. After having experienced the circulation of the blood in human creatures, we make no doubt that it takes place in Titius and Maevius. But from its circulation in frogs and fishes, it is only a… Read More
Politics People or classes? 10 Oct 2007 It seems that almost nobody can mention Jews without making an inadvertent or deliberate ass of themselves. Most recently, Richard Dawkins put his foot in it in this Guardian article. He said: When you think about how fantastically successful the Jewish lobby has been, though, in fact, they are less… Read More
And if souls can’t be proven with science you have to rely on faith. My faith says if it can’t be proven, it doesn’t exist. Pick your faith.
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/reality.png Hindus have 36 crores of gods – 360 million deities. How is India doing? It is governments’ task to prevent mankind from knowing things, and religions’ task to substitute inert filling.
Saw a spirit one time, there is no way you can duplicate that in any lab, it’s a type of energy / existence / presence nor can you beckon one to appear at will.
It could easily have been an artifact of your own brain. That’s the problem with “proving” such things… If they can’t be measured there’s no way to know if they exist outside the observer’s brain.
Anything which has an observable effect in the natural world can be investigated by science, even ideas. Don’t be surprised, though, if the result is sometimes “It’s most likely a figment of your imagination.”
Junbug20 said: Junbug20: Saw a spirit one time, there is no way you can duplicate that in any lab, it’s a type of energy / existence / presence nor can you beckon one to appear at will. I saw a lion hiding in the grassland, hunting a heard of gazelle. There is no way you can duplicate that in any lab. You cannot cause it to happen at will. Does that mean it’s supernatural?
I have had some very real lucid dreams where I was telekinetic. I remember these dreams more clearly than yesterday. I could move any object at will. I even did “scientific” experiments in the dream and it didn’t matter how massive these objects were, although they did accelerate with increased will. I have also had clear dreams where I could change my surroundings with a single thought, which is more scary than you might think. For all practical purposes, I was God Almighty. My will was law, and I reigned supreme. Scoff if you will, but if these dreams were once reality to me. But in these dreams I wonder how much I would learn and how much diversity there would be? Would I become trapped in myself? As an omnipotent being, would I understand good and evil? Forgive me for using a biblical analogy, but like Lot’s wife I would look back and never change and be nothing more than a self-satisfied piece of salt. I would never be challenged to explore another potential reality, or any higher level of meaning. The same could be said of an addiction to science.
Okay you can rule out science in that case, but why would anyone use Faith as a means of working the problem out?
Correct point but trivial. Science can not and doesn’t try to explain every faith and nonsense. Hey, there are three gods and two witches in your chimney now. Science has no opinion on this either. But intelligent people do.