Computer \"reads\" memories... (Humans)

by David Turell , Thursday, March 25, 2010, 14:04 (5356 days ago) @ xeno6696


> Yes, life is complex. I understand that. I don't understand why that is sufficient reasoning to say that this complexity is sufficient reason to posit an external deity.-I believe that your time is spent so much on your chosen education and career that you have not had the time to study how complex a single cell can be. I cannot see how chemistry can go from inorganic to this degree of complexity, which is constantly increasing as research continues, without an guidance.
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> It's like... to me you're saying "Because we can't fathom how life could be created by chance, we MUST have SOME explanation, and my chosen explanation is God." 
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> My position (and I venture dhw's, tentatively) is that we can never be justified in making that claim. Court cases are overturned all the time! -My mind and logical thinking cannot be compared to court cases, where one set of individuals disagree with another group usually on technical legal grounds.- 
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> So to me, I'm scrambling to explain why positing a deity does ENOUGH. What does it explain that chance doesn't? -My answer is that my expectation is 'chance' can NEVER explain it, and will never, so we have left onlly design.-> 
> Especially if multiple universes pan out to be true:-When will that be? String, membrane theory is unproven after 35 years of work. It may predict 10^500 universes, outside ours, never to be proveable! Try leaving ours. Atheist pie in the sky. ->
> Though I have yet to delve into the math, I'm really beginning to think that the basic accepted explanations of quantum mechanics (superposition vs. many worlds) are completely off the mark. I can't explain why yet.-I'm hoping you can one day. I still am sure there is only one of me, here and now. A herd of me would need a wrangler in control, not possible. )