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(...) Can God actually be limited to our subjective experience? Assuming that our path is unique in the near infinity of possible universes, all of which God understands totally, is it actually possible for God to comprehend how linear this (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Franks writes: Some more thoughts: (...) Here's another "convenient" explanation. Life consists of the most successful organisms as constrained by environment and history. Obviously some organisms are very (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) And the improvements often come in big jumps -- or lots of little jumps. It happens when a gene successfully strays away from the local maxima that it's been stuck on and climbs to a new local maxima. In n-dimensional space, there are very few (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I just do not see it that way, except to the level of having faith in the basic evidence of one's senses, in the chain of verifiabillty (I am reasonably certain that Brazil exists based on verifiability), and in the prowess of logic. No theory (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, this is an interesting take! Do expound, sounds like fertile ground for discussion, unlike creationism. I would think that property and rights are inventions before I'd think they were myths. ++Lar (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Hi, (...) If you think of the number of animals that have existed over the previous X million years, and the small fraction of these whose remains have survived to exist as fossils, and the smaller fraction of these which actually have been found (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Big ugly trolls (was Re: New stuff on my webpage ...)
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(...) (Comments addressed to Richard, but obviously people can jump in if they think there is something relevant to add. Since I gratuitously posted my initial response to the newsgroup I think it's fair that I should post my more rational apology (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Democracy, individual human rights and the concept of "property" are all myths too, and myths with much shorter history in human culture than the idea of a divine creator. They're also less rational than belief in God. If we accept a literal (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I have seen no such claims in any scientific source. (...) I listed those for human evolution from hominids to current man. That's the family/genus/species record. (...) A cat didn't evolve into a dog or vica versa. (...) It's hard to see with (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Essay on Emerson vs. Thoreau; civil disobedience
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(...) Go ahead and do so... (...) I am having a lot of trouble with this notion. It smacks of might makes right. <snip> (...) Yes, it so much more convenient to already have "lost", don't you think? ++Lar (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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