Yes I would not be surprised if consciousness proves to be a bigger challenge to explain than origin of life.
Posts by cofty
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405Origin of Life
by cofty inin recent years significant progress has been made in solving the question of how life originated on our planet.. how do you think theists will respond when it finally happens?
as a former christian i know my reaction would have been something like "well that just goes to show that it takes intelligent life to make life", but for two reasons that defense doesn't work.. firstly it would prove that life is not an ethereal force that originates with god.
there is no 'ghost in the machine', no elan vital.
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Why Do People Become Jehovah's Witnesses?
by minimus inbesides being raised in the religion , why do people become jws?
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cofty
Certainty
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Origin of Life
by cofty inin recent years significant progress has been made in solving the question of how life originated on our planet.. how do you think theists will respond when it finally happens?
as a former christian i know my reaction would have been something like "well that just goes to show that it takes intelligent life to make life", but for two reasons that defense doesn't work.. firstly it would prove that life is not an ethereal force that originates with god.
there is no 'ghost in the machine', no elan vital.
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cofty
Their challenge will change from "You can't say how life got here," to "You can't prove that your successful lab experiments are the way life actually got here." - Aha
True. Of course any naturalistic origin of life that works proves that no magic is necessary.
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Origin of Life
by cofty inin recent years significant progress has been made in solving the question of how life originated on our planet.. how do you think theists will respond when it finally happens?
as a former christian i know my reaction would have been something like "well that just goes to show that it takes intelligent life to make life", but for two reasons that defense doesn't work.. firstly it would prove that life is not an ethereal force that originates with god.
there is no 'ghost in the machine', no elan vital.
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cofty
I'm amazed at how far we have come in such a short period of time - Azor
I think it is easy to forget that. Science is still relatively new and the progress that has been made in the last century is astonishing.
What do you mean by "codex" by the way?
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Origin of Life
by cofty inin recent years significant progress has been made in solving the question of how life originated on our planet.. how do you think theists will respond when it finally happens?
as a former christian i know my reaction would have been something like "well that just goes to show that it takes intelligent life to make life", but for two reasons that defense doesn't work.. firstly it would prove that life is not an ethereal force that originates with god.
there is no 'ghost in the machine', no elan vital.
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cofty
JW believers and their atheist counterparts seem to share the same belief ... - SBF
Troll
It's literally impossible to have an interesting conversation without you spouting your usual bullshit. So fucking boring.
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Origin of Life
by cofty inin recent years significant progress has been made in solving the question of how life originated on our planet.. how do you think theists will respond when it finally happens?
as a former christian i know my reaction would have been something like "well that just goes to show that it takes intelligent life to make life", but for two reasons that defense doesn't work.. firstly it would prove that life is not an ethereal force that originates with god.
there is no 'ghost in the machine', no elan vital.
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cofty
In recent years significant progress has been made in solving the question of how life originated on our planet.
How do you think theists will respond when it finally happens? As a former christian I know my reaction would have been something like "well that just goes to show that it takes intelligent life to make life", but for two reasons that defense doesn't work.
Firstly it would prove that life is not an ethereal force that originates with god. There is no 'ghost in the machine', no elan vital.
Also the excuse doesn't work because origin-of-life researchers are simply working to recreate the conditions that existed in a prebiotic earth to observe how life arose without intelligent agency.
"Life is nothing but an electron looking for a place to rest" - Albert Szent-Györgyi.
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Is changing the "truth" / presenting "new light" really so bad?
by Zana inplaying devil's advocate here.... what's the difference between the gb changing bible interpretations compared to parliaments all over the world changing laws?
although the us constitution (=bible) remains untouched, congress passes i don't know how many new laws every year.
and of course people are expected to follow them.
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cofty
Is changing the "truth" / presenting "new light" really so bad?
Yes
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Is the Jesus of religion conservative, and the Jesus of the New Testament liberal?
by Fernando inis the jesus of religion conservative, and the jesus of the new testament liberal?.
your thoughts?.
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cofty
Really? He said "you must be perfect". You don't get any more demanding than that.
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Is the Jesus of religion conservative, and the Jesus of the New Testament liberal?
by Fernando inis the jesus of religion conservative, and the jesus of the new testament liberal?.
your thoughts?.
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cofty
Jesus is the ultimate sock puppet.
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Found Another Medieval Coin This Evening
by cofty ini got in an hour metal detecting this evening and found this almost immediately.. it is a silver penny of henry ii minted in london by "davi" between 1180 and 1189. this adds a king i didn't have in my collection.
i now have the series of henry ii - john - henry iii - edward i - edward ii - edward iii.. i now need richard the lionheart to fill in the gap.
he was the brother of john and reigned after the death of henry ii.
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cofty
Landy - I found it. Got me 3 minutes on the jet wash