Cosmology: Inflation theory under attack part 3 (Introduction)

by John Kalber, Tuesday, October 31, 2017, 16:53 (2369 days ago) @ John Kalber

Continuing:
My views are rational suppositions that employ physical reality. Faith is belief in defiance of reality. We will never agree on this. Frankly, it matters little – to paraphrase you – what is, is!

For Nature to do its work, the required components must be individually selected in the correct order and - critically - in suitable circumstances. We do not yet know what those circumstances are. Each step is going to result in a different outcome, one of many thousands.

A correct path to the human brain has consumed the lives of millions of intermediate creatures over millions of years, finally to follow the hominid path that has led to several types of near humans that culminated in Neanderthals, Cro-Magnon and Homo Sapiens Sapiens. Only we survived.

When a potentially more complex route is followed the viable outcomes are million fold, offering countless variations even within a species. In building brain parts, the existence of a complexity promotes its acceptance only of further ‘sympathetic’ additions until no further advantage is available.

The 'rules of engagement' to build an infant human are detailed in every reproductive system, sperm and egg. Those same or similar rules came about on Earth under conditions we do not know. If, as I affirm, these ‘building blocks are supplemented automatically, nothing in the way of a directing intelligence is required. No planning is involved, nor even remotely needed. No design factor can exist in these circumstances.

If you made a blank puzzle, its pieces would join together in one way only. A multiplicity of outcomes would arise if a few multi-fit pieces and differently shaped pieces are included. The Universe in and of its nature has plenty of these, so when the puzzle begins to form suitable new pieces are there and will eventually be harnessed to the organism. This process creates bumper harvests of successes, dead ends and failures. And can take millions of years entirely because it is not ‘designed’. In this sense, the choice of route includes an element of chance [or more likely, simply conditions] as to its further advance.

For a superpower to perform like this would make it a super idiot. Further comment would be pointless.

Dhw: Once more, then, the question of whether he exists or not boils down not to his possible nature but to whether you have sufficient faith in what you call “sub-atomical and chemical awareness” to believe that it is capable of producing the mechanisms described above – a question which you consistently ignore. NB This is a major factor in my own agnosticism, since I do not have that faith.

Here we go again. How can you say I have ignored your question yet quote part of my answer? I wrote at length of how I maintain that the conditions in which both inorganic and organic systems come about are intrinsic in a methodology that allows progressive automatic and systematic evolution, no matter how complex the process may become.
If I didn’t believe it, I would not propound it.

You are suggesting that the solutions we cannot otherwise find (especially to the problems of origin outlined above, but also to unexplained psychic phenomena) lie in blind, unconscious, chance-directed “Mother Nature”. Once more, if you believe that, you need just as much faith as you need to believe in “Mother Nature’s” other identity as a seeing, conscious, purpose-directed God.

Nature is not chance directed and there is no reason to think she is. Whilst consciousness does not pertain there is always an element of atomic and chemical awareness at work. Perhaps I should reaffirm my position yet again in the context of my stated views on how the natural world functions.

Everything – everything, exists by virtue of capability extant in the Universe and nowhere else! There isn’t an ‘anywhere else’ anyway!

Each and every nuance of feeling, imagination, emotional stress or psychic phenomena are directly created by the activities of the brain, perhaps in reaction to some stimulus, internal or external, which may [obviously] be affected by outside influences. Whilst we can discuss or write detailed reviews of them, they cannot be seen or felt outside a brain.

There is also an ‘aura’ that surrounds every living being. This is caused by radiation of the bodies energy and has been shown on camera. I do not know its limitations but it may be possible that we know of it when ‘auras’ are in contact. People don’t like it when ‘their space’ is invaded, a feeling that suggests that their own aura has ‘sensed’ another and the brain interprets this contact as ‘undesirable’.

It may be possible that an ‘extended’ aura may contact, for example, a hidden enemy. This could [if true] account for the awareness sometimes claimed for the prowess of some hunted/hunting creature. The ‘awareness’ would be an electrical exchange only capable of reception by the brain. There is no possibility that mental power can exert any force to move any object – telekinesis.