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Whatever cosmic architect drew up these plans Clearly wasn’t thinking about the tenants; — PoeticUniverse Yes. The architect of our cosmic habitation apparently was designing for non-divine inhabitants who are subject to the same natural laws as the house itself : gravity, entropy, cause & effect. ...

This would be a problem for your god as well. As I pointed out before, for you god to exist eternally prior to the universe it would have to have done something, move, think, etc. to exist at all, which would require an inexhaustible source of energy. It seems to me that you're saying that god did ...

Although i agree with you, i'm not sure what to say or how to say it. — punos When bullied by a forum troll, the best thing to say is nothing. That's why I long ago stopped responding to my own philosophical gadfly, who doesn't know what he doesn't know. Since he considers himself to be superior, h...

Really great post! — PoeticUniverse Thank you, although i'm sure others might not agree . — punos On a philosophy forum we expect to have disagreements. But we also have a right to expect the disputes to be articulated in calm rational counter-arguments ; instead of infantile schoolyard name-calling...

God is a something from nothing and isn't necessary as the universe could be eternal without intelligent design. God just complicates the matter. I find it easier to contemplate a perpetual causation than the idea of something from nothing. — Harry Hindu Perhaps, prior to the 20th century, a self-e...

Whitehead invokes God as a fundamental part of his metaphysical system which, I believe, is why he uses the term, " becoming " in describing the behavior of processes. — Harry Hindu I too, postulate a philosophical god-like First Cause *1 as an explanation for the something-from-nothing implication...

Here's the response from Google A.I. Overview : " Process philosophy is often compared to substance metaphysics, which is the dominant paradigm in Western philosophy. Process philosophy differs from substance metaphysics in its focus on becoming and change, rather than the static nature of being ." ...

What exactly is Process Philosophy? But the answers I get make even less sense than the wikipedia entries on it and so I figured I'd try to ask it on here to see if anyone knows what it is and what it means, because I just get more lost on it. — Darkneos Years ago, I too, got lost in Whitehead's co...

I do agree the world is a construction of the mind. We don't even need metaphysics to establish this, — Manuel Yes. Biology & Physics give us a look inside the skull of an observer. From those facts we can construct a mechanical model of how the brain produces ideas. However, there remains an unexp...

What I'm trying to say here is that the "appearance of solidity", and the sensation of weight, and the visual image of a rock, are all mental functions. If you see a gray mass, and you believe it to be solid & massive, you will refrain from kicking it. Unless, of course, you are trying to demonstra...