On 11 Jul 2013, at 21:42, John Clark wrote:
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be>
wrote:
>> You know what partial differential equations are don't you? Well
then, in the above "God" is anything in which a solution to such a
equation describes the future behavior of that thing.
> God would be more like the one knowing the solution of the wave
equation,
Fine, probabilities are good enough for me. If solving the partial
differential God equation told me that there was a 40% chance that
God would kill all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, and a 35%
chance He would create a plague of locusts, and a 25% chance He
would part the Red Sea and one of those things actually happened
then I would become a theist, provided of course that future
solutions of the God Equation produced a similar pattern of
successful predictions.
>>> You confirm again and again that atheists defends the uniqueness
of the God notion:
>> That is correct. Atheists know that the God notion is indeed
unique because atheists are logical and have deduced that there can
be only one greatest being who created the universe because that's
what another English word "greatest" means.
> You admit you are christian apparently.
Yes that's what I thought, you are fine with words meaning whatever
you want them to mean whenever you want them to mean it. And that
makes communication rather difficult.
You are the one saying that God means in english "the christian god",
when "god" is also an english term used for what can be common in many
different spiritual approaches, like "fundamental truth that we can
search", for example.
You don't need such concept to do physics, but you need it to be able
to doubt the physicalist doctrine, when working on difficult problem
like the mind-body problem.
Bruno
John K Clark
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
Groups "Everything List" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it,
send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Everything List" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
