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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_atheism "The number of atheists is on the rise across the world, with religiosity generally declining. Scientists and in particular eminent scientists are mostly atheists, perhaps the only demographic in the West in which this occurs." Anyone e...

The Waning of Materialism Edited by Robert C. Koons and George Bealer http://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-waning-of-materialism-9780199556199?cc=us&lang=en&tab=description Our government here in NZ has been trying a concept called trickle down , an excuse for the rich and powerful to...

finite as in our understanding of the universe , not finite in it's size or limited in any way , this universe carries on forever , you can call that many universes , or we could call it the universe , I prefer the term universe to include everything , everything that we can see and assume , and ev...

I see the term universe to encompass "everything" , the whole universe , this multiverse , universes within universes ,,??? surely thats just changing the meaning of the word universe , as I see it we have one universe , we can talk about this part or that , but it's all part of the one u...

I get you. At the same time, at least I think so, my positions are also irreconcilable with many classic religious positions. That is to say 'the conventional, believing Christian'. Sort of a shame that the 'conversation' could not have expanded further with more interest from that camp. More respo...

Godfree, if you have your own model of the universe that doesn't need to be consistent with other peoples, anything I have to say is irrelevant. Funny fellow , reality is subjective , we all have our own version of reality , I just take it a few steps more and have my own philosophy , model of the ...

What you've written is not really true, for a start it requires energy to turn hydrogen into helium, which means that in terms of energy, every time the lighter elements are transformed into heavier elements, energy is lost in the form of heat and light radiation. This radiation takes the form of p...

"behave like a female"? I have spelled out who and what I am sixteen times on this forum. Right from my very first post on this forum I declared that I am a man in plain text for all to read. Don't believe me? Look it up. You can do better than this, Godfree. You are currently making this...

Godfree, you haven't made any suggestion that would solve the paradox of how something physical can not be created. I know the only solution is that the universe is not physical, it's a mental phenomena, and as with our own mental existence has as its beginning the change from unconscious to consci...

Or we could just be a finite universe in the set of infinite universes. Not that it matters philosophically as metaphysics won't solve this issue. I see the term universe to encompass "everything" , the whole universe , this multiverse , universes within universes ,,??? surely thats just ...

The title had deceived me , I thought there was a chance to get real , clearly Gustav is not interested in a debate or learning what other people think , he is here to preach and dictate to us , if the title of this thread had been a little closer to the reality ,ie , A religious thread , By a Relig...

An exercise to the reader: Step 1. Go find a video on youtube that is scientifically authoritative which says that the universe is infinite in size. Step 2. Find a different video on youtube that is scientifically authoritative, which says that the universe was once the size of a grapefruit/orange/...

there is much of this world that we can't see , black holes , nuclei ,gravity , we accept these things because we can theorize and speculate by observing things around the objects in question, we can speculate that more universe exists , to assume it doesn't , is the insane irrational bullshit ,,!!...

Godfree, if you believe the universe is infinite, how do you explain something that was never created actually existing. If there is no point at which we can say things came together to form the universe, then we cannot say the universe was formed at all, and in that case it doesn't exist. That's c...

Godfree, you are bound in your thinking to your one dimensional concept of infinity. This has led you to miss the whole point of modern science in the present world we live in. There's something in science called "observation", I think you know where I'm going with this, that relates to u...