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Intelligent Design/Fine Tuning Question
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<blockquote data-quote="food4thought" data-source="post: 60846375" data-attributes="member: 3467"><p>I hope you and Aiki don't mind of I toss in my two cents worth on these questions.</p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p>One thing jumps to mind, but you may not accept it. Human thought is an immaterial thing, yet it has been shown that thought has a physical effect on the brain as well as leading to actions in reality that affect the material world. Honestly, there are many who hold a completely materialistic view of human being, and would say that thought is a result of changing brain activity... I believe that our immaterial soul produces thoughts which express themselves physically in changing brain activity. At this point, and perhaps forever, we can not prove which of these is true. At the very least, our ability to act contrary to our thoughts implies that something beyond mere physical reactions in our brains exists in our personalities, which leads one to lean towards believing in an immaterial soul.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p>If directed panspermia were the case, we would just be moving the origin of life question back one species. How did the alien life come to be? Ultimately, this hypothesis just moves the whole question out of our range to know empirically since we have no access to alien biology or to any idea of what conditions are/were on their home planet. This concept does not answer the origins of life and is beyond proof... why has it been introduced?</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p>I am just beginning to study logic, so I don't know for sure whether that is a true logical statement or not. I will say that logic applied to reality can indeed tell us quite a bit. Your statement implies that there is no reality to apply logic to, yet this is flatly contradicted by my ability to determine logically that at least I exist. So logic can prove my existence, and thus some reality does exist. At the least, your statement is pointless unless I am missing something from the preceeding discussion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="food4thought, post: 60846375, member: 3467"] I hope you and Aiki don't mind of I toss in my two cents worth on these questions. One thing jumps to mind, but you may not accept it. Human thought is an immaterial thing, yet it has been shown that thought has a physical effect on the brain as well as leading to actions in reality that affect the material world. Honestly, there are many who hold a completely materialistic view of human being, and would say that thought is a result of changing brain activity... I believe that our immaterial soul produces thoughts which express themselves physically in changing brain activity. At this point, and perhaps forever, we can not prove which of these is true. At the very least, our ability to act contrary to our thoughts implies that something beyond mere physical reactions in our brains exists in our personalities, which leads one to lean towards believing in an immaterial soul. If directed panspermia were the case, we would just be moving the origin of life question back one species. How did the alien life come to be? Ultimately, this hypothesis just moves the whole question out of our range to know empirically since we have no access to alien biology or to any idea of what conditions are/were on their home planet. This concept does not answer the origins of life and is beyond proof... why has it been introduced? I am just beginning to study logic, so I don't know for sure whether that is a true logical statement or not. I will say that logic applied to reality can indeed tell us quite a bit. Your statement implies that there is no reality to apply logic to, yet this is flatly contradicted by my ability to determine logically that at least I exist. So logic can prove my existence, and thus some reality does exist. At the least, your statement is pointless unless I am missing something from the preceeding discussion. [/QUOTE]
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