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Where did Intelligence begin, in matter or fundamental energy?

The first Intelligence began in.....

  • Carbon based life less than 5 billion years ago, on earth.

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  • Carbon based life in outer space.

    Votes: 4 14.3%
  • Fundamental or nearly fundamental energy.

    Votes: 2 7.1%
  • This is a new question that I am only now facing.

    Votes: 2 7.1%
  • This question is flawed.... God had no beginning.

    Votes: 16 57.1%

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DennisTate

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A certain possible problem that is confronting us
puts us into a situation where we have to come up with a response.

An astonishingly well informed online friend of mine sent me a personal message
several months ago and mentioned that there is really about 4.3 TRILLION USA Petro-dollars out there floating around.....
and I think he implied that if all that money hit the markets too fast.....
in a disorganized manner..... .a devaluation of the dollar could happen.....
that could produce quite a crisis.......
but... .what if seventy percent or so of that money were redirected into win - win - win - win
projects... such as finding truly good sources of green energy?

Theoretically...... this could positively transform the world economy.

I am thinking that I may send you a copy of the link to the original message as a personal message......
I am pretty sure you will find it interesting.....
and I think you will see why that message ate and ate at my thinking.... until I had to at least try to do something with it.............

Pope Francis, President Trump, 4.3 Trillion Petro-Dollars and JUBILEE!

 
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Good grief, where do you get this stuff?

Thanks, but no thanks.
 
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Good grief, where do you get this stuff?

Thanks, but no thanks.

In this particular case in a non-Christian political forum frequented by lots of writers with an IQ that I suspect could be nearly double what I am working with?!
 
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In this particular case in a non-Christian political forum frequented by lots of writers with an IQ that I suspect could be nearly double what I am working with?!
IQ isn't that important, it's what you do with it that counts. I tend to be skeptical of people who flaunt their high IQ - it's an easy claim to make, and suggests a lack of confidence (or an excess of [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse]ry).
 
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Yes...... that often does seem to be the case.....
but there seems to be exceptions to virtually every rule.... and I have ran into a few regarding this as well....
 
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I got back a fascinating reply on another discussion that I feel fits perfectly over here in this topic.

He was commenting on a video...... but I haven't had a chance to listen to it yet so I am not sure if it fits here or not.... .but the quotation sure s
Handbook for the New Paradigm - George Green - Part 1 of 6

 
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There is indeed conscientiousness involved with the fundamental levels of the physical universe. There are some, or maybe many, here who speak of requirement of physical proof of God being needed to be sufficient basis for belief in God. But God is not physical and is sovereign over everything and does not become subject to physical tests. There are bases God has showing for bases anyway with miraculous events, such as Jesus Christ who spoke about God and of the resurrection rising from his tomb after he had been killed. I believe though that there is basis from mathematical logic that God certainly exists.

We have conscientiousness that we trust that we can come to know the truth of things, including of what there is about the universe, how do we explain that from the physical processes? Does complexity from natural processes produce such? That there is already the conscientiousness that would explain it. But energy itself is not that, and any material of the physical universe has some energy to do anything at all. The conscientiousness is something else, and the physical is subject to conscientiousness.
 
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I didn't find it particularly interesting; Part I was a ramble based on a popular misunderstanding of quantum physics (strongly promoted by woo-merchants). Part II was a ramble based on vague mysticism. Meh.
 
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If God is not physical and not subject to physical tests, then physical events cannot be evidence for God.

I believe though that there is basis from mathematical logic that God certainly exists.
Excellent, let's hear it! Just a reference or link will do.

Do you really mean 'conscientiousness'?
 
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I mean consciousness, of course. Word suggestion on my phone doesn't show the whole word, I might trust it and sometimes I don't look back adequately to edit though I should as such a case shows me.


It is unnecessarily limiting to say that God cannot have effect on physical things because God with being sovereign won't be subject to physical testing. It is too bad if that logic can't be grasped by some, but there can be more than what is physical affecting the physical, that is what the seeming effect of consciousness suggests. The presence of God is still shown without God submitting to being tested with physical tests yet. There are things revealed in history that are explained well with seeing God's actions, especially when there are many predictions of what happens before such.

I have heard from an accomplished mathematician that there is mathematically effective proof of God. He had the name Robert A. Herrmann.

For one thing there is still this for a site I can link to for a reference.
Scientists use mathematical calculations to PROVE the existence of God
 
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I mean consciousness, of course.
I thought so; just a heads-up.

OK, so how does the 'non-physical' affect the physical? What forces or particles interact with the protons, neutrons, and electrons we're made of to cause this?

What 'seeming effect of consciousness' suggests more than 'what is physical affecting the physical' ?

The presence of God is still shown without God submitting to being tested with physical tests yet.
If God detectably influences the physical world, detecting that influence is an empirical test for God. If God doesn't detectably influence the physical world, it's just another untestable hypothesis. You can't have it both ways.

Ah, no. Beware of tabloid headlines - they're designed to get your attention and draw you in. What happened is that some scientists proved Kurt Gödel's theorem (in the mathematical sense) regarding the existence of God. That doesn't prove that God exists.

Gödel's theorem was a logical representation of Anslem's 'Ontological Argument', and consequently suffers the same logical flaw, the equivocation of God-that-exists and God-that-can-be-conceived.

The theorem is proved, but it's assumptions are flawed - Here's a summary.
 
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Since none of that happened,
what's next then ?
 
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We have consciousness that we trust that we can come to know the truth of things, including of what there is about the universe, how do we explain that from the physical processes? Does complexity from natural processes produce such? That there is already the consciousness that would explain it. But energy itself is not that, and any material of the physical universe has some energy to do anything at all. The consciousness is something else, and the physical is subject to consciousness.

FrumiousBandersnatch said:
OK, so how does the 'non-physical' affect the physical? What forces or particles interact with the protons, neutrons, and electrons we're made of to cause this?

This is standard typical response by those who would suggest there is no way for what is nonphysical to act on anything physical. That would be the case if what is nonphysical is in fact nothing, which is all that can be imagined if all that there is would only be what is physical. But there is the Creator, with power that is outside of anything that is defined as physical, that explains how all things physical came into being. So it is that there is creative power with this case. That power is not limited from action on physical bodies. There can be action on all particles within bodies like there would be from gravitation for example. It would be contrary to physical rules but creation of the physical was outside of physical rules, which rules also came from such creation. I would not imagine limits to the unlimited that necessary being is.

What 'seeming effect of consciousness' suggests more than 'what is physical affecting the physical'?

I was thinking of the suggestion of that where there is communication of the observer and occurrences at the quantum level that have been studied, but I see miraculous events in testimonials can be such.


I would say that if God was observed where God chooses to act, which is the only way the nonphysical Creator is going to be observed, the unbelieving observers will note the occurrence but that such is God will never be truly considered.

With the logic I know of that there is the Creator, the mathematical demonstration that the God-that-can-be-conceived would be no greater than God-that-exists would apply. Should I even think your understanding of the mathematical logic of it is greater than that of the mathematicians who find these conclusions?
 
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Energy is an indirectly observed conserved quantity, a property that things have according to their physical context and make-up.

This is standard typical response by those who would suggest there is no way for what is nonphysical to act on anything physical.
That's because actions on the physical are physical interactions and physical interactions are interactions between physical things - and we know what physical interactions are significant at everyday human scales. You can't have it both ways - if it's physical, it can interact with the physical, if it isn't, it can't. That's what physical means.

Gravitation is physical. The rest is word-salad.

I was thinking of the suggestion of that where there is communication of the observer and occurrences at the quantum level that have been studied...
If you mean the idea that consciousness influences quantum events, that's a (sadly common) misunderstanding of quantum theory.

I would say that if God was observed where God chooses to act, which is the only way the nonphysical Creator is going to be observed, the unbelieving observers will note the occurrence but that such is God will never be truly considered.
It would still be a test for God, whether the results were accepted or not. However, if there was a plausible natural explanation (as there usually is when such claims are investigated), it would clearly be sensible (by the abductive criteria) to accept the natural explanation.

As I said, the ontological argument fails by equivocation.
 
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I wasn't saying anything that contradicted what energy is. Somebody thought consciousness could be the energy, which I was excluding in the response. But you don't explain such consciousness.


That is just not true at all, if all that is physical came from the Creator which is what I see as the necessary existence, which isn't physical, this means the energy for anything among all that is physical is created too. The Creator is not limited from such creation.


No, it's not. It is what you dismiss, to not deal with. This explains all that is physical. I have been in communication previously where you had also posted where I was speaking about the basis with there being necessary existence, which is not considered by any of those responding from their atheist position.


Then it could have been going on already, if there was study where the miraculous (which what such occurrence from God choosing to act is) happens, and God is not considered in what is involved. And God can act in the miraculous with ability as Creator, with energy or matter created, or with any of it transformed, or, which may be more often, with using what may only be seen with natural processes involved, but far too unlikely for such occasion when it happens, especially for those occasions when it was prophesied enough for far ahead of it happening.


No it doesn't, because necessary existence, which I have already been bringing up, is never being dealt with when we consider these things.
 
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True.... and I would not attempt to rule out the idea of G-d organizing an essentially infinite number of Big Bang type events as Atheist and near death experiencer Mellen Benedict was shown:


Mellen-Thomas Benedict's Near-Death Experience

 
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This as testimony of personal experience isn't so reliable. The idea that there are many universes produced was not from real basis other than the physical constants that are parameters in this universe that are independent of each other are just right for this universe to function with stars, galaxies, and any kind of possible life at all in worlds among that, and the parameters wouldn't be right for it with any different value, and many other universes thought to explain one working in this way, that design would not be considered to explain it. There is avoidance with all this, even with thinking of alien intelligences that were with technology that was God-like, of the necessary existence, which would be eternal and unlimited, that without there being such that could create other existing things there would always be nothing at all.
 
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Would you be offended if G-d has recorded every tiny detail of every moment of your life including the number of hairs on your head in any given instant??

Reverend Howard Storm's Near-Death Experience

3. The Life Review of Howard Storm
 
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Thanks for admitting this openly.
It explains a lot I didn't understand about your posts before.
Sometimes it takes 2 years to get to the source of someone's ideas,
and seemingly a lot of wasted time and questions before getting there.
 
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