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You are disagreeing with the Bible, not I. It says quite clearly that Adam and Eve did not know of right and wrong.

Good and evil is right and wrong. Doing the right thing is good. Doing the wrong thing is evil.

What "right" thing or "wrong" thing are you talking about doing exactly?

Stealing something gets you something for free. So that's good, right?
Or should I say "That's right, good?" or should I say "that's right, right?"
or "that's good, good?" Since you seem to think those words mean
exactly the same thing, in exactly the same context.
 
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You mean there are naturally occuring environments where life is able to exist in accordance to the laws of physics?

I don't consider anything to be naturally occurring except in
conversation with people who think otherwise. :)
 
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Toddlers are examples of humans who have no sense of right and wrong, just like Adam and Eve.
They weren't full adults. They had no sense of what is right and wrong.

That's an interesting point. :thumbsup:
 
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Based on astronomical observations, what is said to be the sum of energy contained within the cosmos? Citation, please.

"Based on observations" there is no clear answer
because observations suggest that up to 90%
cannot be seen.

But limited to what we can see, here are estimates of the mass:
Mass of the Universe

To convert that to energy multiply it by the speed of light....squared.
(One of the estimates is infinite mass)
How to Understand E=mc2: 3 Steps (with Pictures) - wikiHow

That will give you Joules.
A Joule would be a 100 watt light bulb left on for 1/100 of a second.

You were unable to find the answer to that question? I can supply it if you like, but you should be able to infer it from my previous posts.
 
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You were unable to find the answer to that question? I can supply it if you like, but you should be able to infer it from my previous posts.

ZZZZZzzzzz.......
 
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All natural laws oppose life

I think that the fact that life exists, is kind of proof that that statement is as wrong as it gets.

None has been found anywhere nor any laws of nature are known that point to life or give reason why it would occur.

Why would it need a reason?

Also: argument from ignorance.

All laws point to increasing disorder and loss of useful energy
eventually leading to heat death of the universe.

Yes. Nevermind that on this planet, we have a 24/7 influx of workable energy from the sun.

Only intelligence can create order and information systems out of chaos.

The simple example of gravity already shows this to be false: chaotic clouds of matter will collapse under gravity to become ordered into spherical-ish objects

No intelligent systems are known to create higher intelligence through offspring.

Biological evolution.

All information systems are faulty and erode the original information
and are subject to error, degradation of the information, and energy loss.

Except when those faulty systems are filtered out through a mechanism known as natural selection.

Also: you can't possibly justify the certainty expressed in that statement.
Again, appealing to ignorance.

Energy must be conserved and looses usefulness in any reactions.

Indeed. So it's a good thing that our planet gets an influx of workable energy 24/7 from the sun.

These issues all suggest an great intelligence and source of energy
greater that the created result, our Cosmos.

No. The only thing they suggest is your appeal to ignorance.
 
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I think that the fact that life exists, is kind of proof that that statement is as wrong as it gets.

I'll set you in the next star system and let you explore your way back here.
How many years of earth resources would you like me to send with you?
You only get one days resources at a time....via snail mail.

I'm thinking you'll change your mind.
 
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Indeed. So it's a good thing that our planet gets an influx of workable energy 24/7 from the sun.

So where is the known Cosmos getting it's energy from....exactly?
I'm not interested in how tan you are getting today.
I'm interested in where the billions of watts per second came from.
 
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So where is the known Cosmos getting it's energy from....exactly?

It isn't getting it from anywhere. It has been present from the start of the Cosmos.

I'm not interested in how tan you are getting today.
I'm interested in where the billions of watts per second came from.

Did you ever take high school physics where they explained how potential energy is converted to kinetic energy?
 
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And where did the initial energy come from to start the Cosmos?

Assume for a moment it came from something/someone else -- where did that energy come from?
 
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And where did the initial energy come from to start the Cosmos?

No one knows. What we do know is that every second there has been a Cosmos there has been energy.


And?

Try not to get religiosity on me and talk about some Creation story
where things just pop out of nothing in an instant or 7 days or something.

Funny how you try to discredit an argument by comparing it to your own.


When has the total entropy of the Cosmos decreased?
 
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We don't know the workings of Adam & Eves's digestive system or even the nature of food in Heaven. A literal reading suggests that "food" is both physical and metaphorical at the same time.

One illustration of that would be what you experience in a dream state where things seem perfectly normal to you in your dream even as they change form form one "scene" to the next.

But closer to your topic, God sees the past, present, and future all as one event. Everything you "see happening" is already a known event for God.

Knowing the past, present, and future at the same time is not really conceivable by humans.

So speculation.

Got it.
 
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So to God the happenings in the garden of Eden were known long before they happened, what does that make your God?

It's only St. Augustine's musing in the Confessions, and is not supported by the Scriptures. ^_^
 
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