The Nature of this Conflict (Humans)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Friday, January 22, 2010, 00:49 (5419 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: "First of all, I'm not presuming anything. It's all pure speculation, as with your equally speculative materialism."-You are offering a selection of "speculations" or "presumptions" or "axioms" or "imaginings" whatever you want to call them. For all of which there is no evidence. I'm simply taking the facts as we know them and not weaving any romances.-It is you who is "equivocating" over the meaning of "life". We could of course speculate that the parameters of our universe were set by human-like scientists in some previous universe, but this would not explain where life came from, originally, only set it back further in time. You prefer to speculate that there is some form of disembodied life form (a god), but this is far more speculative, since it requires the existence of something that has never been seen and is probably impossible on our understanding of physics.-I see very little difference between these "speculations" and those of people like von Daniken who maintained, from selected evidence, that our history was shaped by alien spacemen, of David Icke, who thinks we are ruled by shape-shifting lizards. They could be right. You could be right. But I need more evidence.

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GPJ