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December 28th, 2012, 8:27 pm
Spectrum wrote: (quote not shown) I get the profile being able to be connected to this disease or that disease because genes and disease are both within the realm of micro-biology. They are the same kinds of things. Actions of a whole entity and the physical structure of a gene are not the same kind...
December 27th, 2012, 6:03 pm
Spectrum wrote (quote not shown) It just seems that the DNA itself is simply a chemical structure and much of the intelligible content derived therefrom as related to the animal in question is mentally connecting physical structure X(DNA) with behavior B(act of the whole animal). There is nothing ac...
December 26th, 2012, 5:50 pm
Spectrum Wrote: (quote not shown) Why is the best approach to appeal to the physical structure in order to differentiate humans from animals? This alone doesn't give an explanation. It only gives you this raw material structure vs that raw material structure. When using this method you still have to...
December 25th, 2012, 6:16 pm
Beauty can be two-fold: One, it can be viewed as existence itself. In this way a thing is beautiful in that it is a being which is expressing its existence forth. This existence can have different grades, so to speak. An example of this is the existence of an orange that has a certain fulness of bei...
August 7th, 2012, 7:13 pm
Rederic wrote: (quote not shown) Evolution and intelligent design/divine intervention do not contradict each other at all. Its more a question of did a transcendent being give being to matter or did it create itself or "it was just there"? Did a transcendent being set matter in motion or d...
August 5th, 2012, 5:10 pm
Philosch wrote: (quote not shown) I agree, at the VERY LEAST our capacity for the transcendent mystery is a new, thus higher evolutionary stage. Teacher4U wrote: (quote not shown) As regards Jesus took the blow, so don't worry about it: That is mostly a Protestant view, which I do not agree with per...
August 3rd, 2012, 6:15 pm
In a finite world things are composed of many parts which are organized in a particular way so as to "be," this or that. They are a complex unified whole. Each unified whole can be related to itself, its parts, its parts to its other parts, to other unified wholes, to the parts of other un...
August 1st, 2012, 7:40 pm
Teacher4U wrote: (quote not shown) As for tolerance: They teach tolerance for persons, though not necessarily for their views in the sense that they still hold their own views to be right and beliefs which contradict those to be wrong. Just like you believe what you believe, and don't back down beca...
July 30th, 2012, 5:10 pm
Baruchspinoza wrote: (quote not shown) Sorry, was busy weekend. What I said was akin to saying the Phenomena of sensation or intellection in humans which WE ALL experience and or observe. There is an important distinction here: 1. The phenomena of humans potentiality to experiencing the phenomena pe...
July 27th, 2012, 6:49 pm
BaruchSpinoza wrote: (quote not shown) The evidence for "this capacity or potentiality," comes from what people experience internally, and the significance which it has on their being, existence, and actualization. As far as its concerned here it doesn't matter whether the posited object o...
July 27th, 2012, 6:07 pm
newme wrote: (quote not shown) What we are counting and the meaning they have is irrelevant when considering the idea of units or units of things They represent units of whatever particular object they are used to represent. The meaning they have is conveying the number of units in a particular circ...
July 27th, 2012, 5:48 pm
Know one ever knowingly does evil. It is always under the aspect of "good."
July 26th, 2012, 8:33 pm
BaruchSpinoza wrote: (quote not shown) We are not primarily talking about an alter or trance state, though these may be an aspect to it, but an internal capacity to be fulfilled or actualized. This capacity is not merely an idea, but something which our whole being has the potentiality to, just like...
July 25th, 2012, 5:55 pm
BaruchSpinoza wrote: (quote not shown) Divine here refers to peoples sense of the divine, which is a sense of infinite love and being. A certain mystical sense of a potentiality to connect with something beyond finite reality, which potentiality can actualize a more profound part of our nature when ...
July 24th, 2012, 4:06 pm
BaruchSpinoza wrote: (quote not shown) The people are hungry for food example: People have a desire to eat, not because they have a desire to eat, but because it is core and proper to their nature to require food. It is also possible that people have a desire to connect with the divine, not because ...
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