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enlightenment said:
Well, dad, you certainly do think outside the box. Now, tell us how you intend to develop this new field of spiritual science. I propose that the first test we do on it is with a levitation experiment. What do you think?
It already is developed. It is what they learn, if interested, in heaven now, as we speak! The only way we can get even a pre taste of it in this sad ol physical only world here now, is to humbly seek Him, look to His word, and see what bits we can learn of it. Taking some attitude of, well, if this science 'wins me a lottery, wipes my unmentionable for me, lifts me up to a roof top, and helps me sell lots of vacuum cleaners, only then, will I descend from my little throne, and consider it--won't get one very far.
 
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dad said:
Ok, longs as it isn't your 'weirdocrapobeliefinanythingbutGodo' usual stuff!

There is no 'weirdocrapobeliefinanythingbutGodo' involved in or associated with science. That is your strawman.

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The so called stuff, based on disbelief in God, and belief only in some alwayswashere physical only, yes, a real flop! Real here and not, hot, sexy science, why, hec, we loves it.
No science is based on disbelief in god. That's another one of your strawmen.

dad said:
Yes, belief is belief. Why don't you crawl out from under you mother science's dress, and admit yours? Or is it so disgusting, you know the reaction it will get?
Science isn't my mother. There's nothing disgusting about either my mother or science. What are you talking about?

dad said:
If you can't prove it, then, excellent! Enjoy your PO belief, and wild dark dreams of some imagined, unprovable, Godless, physical only, decay and death filled past!

Nice little rant. You grow more and more incoherent.

dad said:
By a single one like you!

By anybody.

dad said:
Good. I'm not into religion, just faith in God, and the bible, and tha God of love, and His only begotten Son
You are completely into religion. You even want to abandon science when it conflicts with your religion.

dad said:
Too bad, I can. Just look for the simolarities in thousands of case studies of people even from different religions, and backgrounds, and countries. No, I guess you're right. You can't know
No, you can't. Nobody can.


Yes, unknown to you. Neitehr you nor anyone else knows who wrote the gospels.

dad said:
Don't make it sound like it is something only I believe in. Most people on earth do know there is a spiritual dimension
It IS something you believe in. The fact that most people on earth believe there is a spiritual is no evidence that that belief is correct. Particularly since most of them would wildly disagree with you about it.

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Hey electric, your posts get more shallow each time here, sounds like you ran out of steam.
Nice little ad hominem, to hide (yet again) the fact that despite repeated requests, you haven't come up with a single tangible thing about your 'spiriscience'. It's STILL just 'science except where it conflicts with MY beliefs, then we abandon science because I say so."
 
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Now, would you like some tangible thing about some things about the spititual? Shows how much you retain, of what is going on here. Tell you what, bring me a ghost, dress it up, and I'll tell you if it's real. We'll try to tickle it, pickle it and put it in a test tube.
 
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Let me get this straight:



  • You claim ghosts and spirits are real
  • Someone claims you cannot measure them
  • You claim that you can measure them when thinking outside of some 'box'
  • Then someone asks for tangible evidence of spooky ghosts
  • And you convieniently say that you can't measure it?
 
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dad said:
Who said anything about science? Come on out, and talk like a man
We both did. It's what we've been talking about for this entire thread. Have you forgotten?

dad said:
Now, would you like some tangible thing about some things about the spititual?
I, and others of this thread, have been begging you to provide some tangible thing about some things in the spiritual. You said you could; you haven't. Despite repeated requests.

dad said:
Shows how much you retain, of what is going on here.
Yes. I retain it well. I recall all of your prevarications and evasions.

dad said:
Tell you what, bring me a ghost, dress it up, and I'll tell you if it's real. We'll try to tickle it, pickle it and put it in a test tube.
If that's the best way. YOU are the one who said the spiritual was repeatedly testable - you have yet to come up with a single repeatable test. Now you have the audacity to act as if we are asking for something unreasonable, when all we are asking for is what YOU said you could provide.

But, of course, you can't provide it...or you would have. Still more proof that your 'spiriscience' is just science with exemptions for anything that contradicts your religious beliefs.
 
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dad said:
1: How long did it take? [My opinion so far id that it took from the fall, to the days of Peleg]

Well, it's your opinion and you're certainly entitled to it. Just as it's your opinion that this split happened at all.


2: Why was it a gradual and not instantaneous process? [You would have to know something of the spiritual world to answer that]

So you don't know. How would you go abhout finding out?
"Get through?" You make it sound like it's more difficult for God to interact with the physical-only universe. Surely you're not putting limits on God's powers?


Lifespans beings some ten times longer, gravity being affected, decay process changed, light of a spiritual nature that was not limited in speed, and much more.

So basically, whatever it takes to make a literal Bible true. Pretty darn convenient, this "merge" of yours. Explains everything by explaining nothing.


The laws of the universe themselves were not at all the same as physical only laws now are alone.]
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You could save yourself a lot of time and effort by just saying "Goddidit" like all the other YECs.




From what I've heard, "forever" isn't part of the plan after Christ's thousand-year reign -- at least not on this Earth.



But you're assuming that everyone mentioned in the Bible was everyone who lived on Earth. Adam, Moses, Methuselah, and the lineage to Abraham seems about it -- In short, all those who already, knowingly or not, had a special relationship with God. What about the others?




Which part of your science are you pulling this out of?
 
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dad said:
It does take some adjusting getting your head around the fact that there was a merged universe, doesn't it.
Not at all, I get the gist of your little story just fine. It's even easy to understand that you actually believe it's true. Your emotionally invested after all. The point is that just making things up is not science.

Yes, with God, indeed, literally, all things are possible, He is really Almighty.
Which is why your god is impossible.
 
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dad said:
The laws of the universe themselves were not at all the same as physical only laws now are alone.
That is the point.

For one thing, it destroyes the "the universe is fine-tuned for human life" argument. That is a yec-internal problem, dad does not have to be bothered with it...

But the problem that remains is: the laws are different - in what way?

You have to consider that you cannot just take one "law" of physical science, and change it - they are all interconnected. So if you want to change one laws, you have to change them all.

But in what ways where they different? And here the real, big, bad problem of dad´s ad-hoc spiritual science shows: He does not know how they were different. All that he can say is that they were so different that they allowed for all kind of wierd (of course, physical-only-wierd ) things, like million tons of water (liquid!) hanging around in orbit and trees, mountains and humans growing in seconds to unknown heights - but normal (physical-only-normal ) enough to allow for "life" to exist and be recognizable as "human".

In which way this "spiritual science" is different from magical handwaving is beyond me.
 
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If this world is only physical (meaning that the spiritual is not accessible to us), then there cannot be a spiritual science. Science is something you can perceive and test and manipulate.


Well, amen, dad...and hallalujah. That makes no sense, and you completely failed to answer my question. Please try again.
 
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A levitation experiment? This is to prove God? Well, Jesus levitated up into the sky. There you go, glad thas all you needed.

Now as far as spiritual science in heaven, no, it is not accessible to you. But there are bits we have access to. Differences between the two, for one thing, some properties of the spititual, and the merged for another. A history of the world and universe for another. Lists of local interferances, called miracles for another. Properties of pre physical only light for another. Yes, we do have some real good clues, and enough to study, that will blow the lid off box science!
 
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STILL waiting for any of dad's supposed 'tests' of spiriscience that he bragged exist...
 
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Electric Sceptic said:
STILL waiting for any of dad's supposed 'tests' of spiriscience that he bragged exist...
God can be tested. He works. Laws of the spirit, etc. I gave you a test, now, don't try to slink out of your homework. I asked you to test how men could live forever. This is a basic trait of spiritual beings. Now, can you give us the results of your tests? I have lots more lined up, awaiting your ability to do the easy, basic test here.
Now, if you say you just can't do it, why would you be chompin at the bit, pretending God ought to 'bring em on'?! The issue here is your ineptness, not whether the spiritual exists. Many scientific betters of yours have already admitted this. It does exist, so your empty negative pretense at bravado, merely highlights the contours of your physical only prison.
 
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You have not given any test. You have claimed that the spiritual is testable; despite repeated requests, you have not given a single example of such a test. Perhaps if you ever get out of your box you will be able to actually support your claims or, at least, admit they are false.

Please also note that I have nowhere claimed that the spiritual does not exist; this is merely yet another of your strawmen.
 
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Sorry you are stumped at not being able to do a simple thing like test the basic trait of the spiritual world! There is only so much I can give you, as an unbeliever, because you do not accept things from the bible, or miracles, Jesus spiritual laws, etc. Your abilities are so low, and box bound, that it seems you have made the choices to continue looking only to physical science, and embracing affectionately the so called aspects of it, that try to carry box logic into an unboxed past! Enjoy your faith, cause thats all it is. A faith that renders you forever incapable in this life of progressing to understand even a little more. While many things can be tested, you have positioned yourself so low, as to be unable be shown anything out of the box at all. But don't think that all men are so bound, they aren't.
To summerize, physical only science cannot be applied to Adam's world, because it was together with the spiritual, as evidenced by many goins on then that would be impossible only in our physical only.
My present feeling is that the split started at the fall, and was complete in the days of Peleg, which covers the flood period as well. Then, our physical only universe we now are in. This will start to transition to a combined or merged universe soon, at the start of the millenium. It will be complete, and merged at the end of this period, forever to be merged, and never again will there be a physical only universe!
Nothing in the bible or real science can begin to dispute this! It explains many former mysteries, like what did they eat after the flood, where did the waters go, and come from, tree rings, radioactive decay, light speed, long lifespans, and a host of other juicy things as well!
Oh, electric, if you have some disputes, try biting your tongue on the vitrolic rhetoric, and empty so called science flag waving, and provide some bible or science evidence these things are not so! Sorry you are unable personally, to test it seems even the basics of a spiritual world, but, as your post said, you never claimed that the spiritual does not exist!!!
I'm away this week. Ta
 
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Kindly give one example of Jesus' spiritual laws

Your abilities are so low, and box bound, that it seems you have made the choices to continue looking only to physical science, and embracing affectionately the so called aspects of it, that try to carry box logic into an unboxed past!

Provide a means of testing the "unboxed" and we'll listen.


Enjoy your faith, cause thats all it is. A faith that renders you forever incapable in this life of progressing to understand even a little more.

You have offered nothing. Forgive us if we do not embrace it.


While many things can be tested, you have positioned yourself so low, as to be unable be shown anything out of the box at all. But don't think that all men are so bound, they aren't.

And you have placed yourself so high, methinks the air is getting rather thin...

To summerize, physical only science cannot be applied to Adam's world, because it was together with the spiritual, as evidenced by many goins on then that would be impossible only in our physical only.

To summarize, you have made this all up from whole cloth.


Your present feeling, lacking any objective means to test or confirm it, is about as useful as a three-dollar bill.

[QUOTE}Nothing in the bible or real science can begin to dispute this! It explains many former mysteries, like what did they eat after the flood, where did the waters go, and come from, tree rings, radioactive decay, light speed, long lifespans, and a host of other juicy things as well! [/QUOTE]

"Real" Science? You mean this nonsense you've been making up?



And still you have nothing.
 
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dad said:
Sorry you are stumped at not being able to do a simple thing like test the basic trait of the spiritual world!
I don't know if I'm 'stumped' or not, since you haven't given a single test of any trait of the spiritual world. You keep claiming these tests exist, but you can't provide any.

dad said:
There is only so much I can give you, as an unbeliever, because you do not accept things from the bible, or miracles, Jesus spiritual laws, etc.
"Only so much" appears to be "zero".

dad said:
Your abilities are so low, and box bound, that it seems you have made the choices to continue looking only to physical science, and embracing affectionately the so called aspects of it, that try to carry box logic into an unboxed past!
Nice dodge to avoid - as you have now spent two different threads doing - supplying any support for your claims.

dad said:
Enjoy your faith, cause thats all it is. A faith that renders you forever incapable in this life of progressing to understand even a little more.
I have no faith.

dad said:
While many things can be tested, you have positioned yourself so low, as to be unable be shown anything out of the box at all.
That's nice. As soon as you provide any of these tests you claim exist, then perhaps we'll see. However, since you apparently can't, all of your claims about the testability of the spiritual are dubious at best.

dad said:
But don't think that all men are so bound, they aren't.
So far all you've demonstrated to me about 'all men' is that some of them like to make claims they can't support.

dad said:
To summerize, physical only science cannot be applied to Adam's world, because it was together with the spiritual, as evidenced by many goins on then that would be impossible only in our physical only.
Yeah, yeah, heard all that before. Claims without any supporting evidence are useless.

dad said:
Oh, electric, if you have some disputes, try biting your tongue on the vitrolic rhetoric, and empty so called science flag waving, and provide some bible or science evidence these things are not so!
YOU are the one who makes claims; it is up to YOU to provide support for them, not up to others to disprove them.

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Sorry you are unable personally, to test it seems even the basics of a spiritual world, but, as your post said, you never claimed that the spiritual does not exist!!!
So far the only reason I'm unable personally to test even the basics of the spiritual world is because the person who keeps talking about the repeatable tests of the spiritual won't reveal what they are. He's been claiming they exist for over a week now, but he won't provide any of them. Makes you suspect he's just full of it, wouldn't you say?
 
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A levitation experiment? This is to prove God?

No, it is to prove that something of a supernatural nature exists.

Well, Jesus levitated up into the sky. There you go, glad thas all you needed.

I think I will not accept it just because you said it, especially since you called this "spiritual science." In science, people don't just say things and expect their colleagues to just believe them without the lab test reports or mathematical proof or readouts, etc.

Now, if you called it "spirituality" and left out the science part, then yes you can make all the unsupported claims you want. But science is about
1) Observation
2) Testing
3) Verifying
4) Concluding

Now as far as spiritual science in heaven, no, it is not accessible to you.

Science is something that is accessible. See the four criteria above.


Miracles are physical occurrences incorrectly perceived by ignorant people (and those saturated by a cult or religion) to be supernatural events. Miracles can be observed, but so far they have not been tested and have not been repeated under controlled circumstances to observe whether or not repeated patterns emerge (that I know of).

Properties of pre physical only light for another. Yes, we do have some real good clues, and enough to study, that will blow the lid off box science!

Your "out of the box" spiritual "science" is simply in-the-box theism dressed up to look like something it is not.
 
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