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  • Would you accept that here "intelligence" can be...

    Would you accept that here "intelligence" can be used as a synonym for his "reliability of belief-producing faculties"? I don't think I'm being too broad with the term.

    If we naturally evolved,...
  • If by infinite universe, you mean an infinite...

    If by infinite universe, you mean an infinite number of universes in a multiverse all with different physical constants at their beginning, then yes.

    But not in our singular universe. Our universe...
  • It doesn't have to be an all military solution. ...

    It doesn't have to be an all military solution.

    As an example, Chechnya during it's brief independence was totally lawless, a lair of gangsters and Islamic terrorists.

    Yet Russia today manages...
  • Yeah true, and it's a conflicting goal: Stop the...

    Yeah true, and it's a conflicting goal: Stop the terrorists by making friends with drug growers, or stop the drug growers and see them side with the terrorists.

    But if the US were to tolerate it,...
  • Who cares? If all the degenerates can do is...

    Who cares? If all the degenerates can do is peddle drugs, then let them be hand-to-mouth subsistence farmers.

    If they want to actually have a real economy, do what every successful once-was-poor...
  • Why not? The US is a superpower and has the...

    Why not?

    The US is a superpower and has the military capacity to punish non-compliance, who better to use that on than Islamic terrorists who profit from hard drugs that corrupt and kill people in...
  • It would be much better if his argument were...

    It would be much better if his argument were simplified to being that we are "too intelligent" (or too whatever particular characteristic) to be a product of naturalistic evolution, and then made his...
  • This just dropped: ...

    This just dropped:


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72WhEqeS6AQ
    Buck 22 - Achy Breaky 2 (feat. Billy Ray Cyrus)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72WhEqeS6AQ

    Surely rock bottom?
  • Fine tuning doesn't say anything as strong as...

    Fine tuning doesn't say anything as strong as that, it's not a Leibniz "best of all possible worlds" argument.

    It's merely that the fundamental physical constants of the universe all have to be...
  • In that context, true randomness would deny...

    In that context, true randomness would deny agency/free will too. If your action is caused by something truly random, it's not a freely willed act of you as an agent, is it?

    I'm not sure the issue...
  • Yeah, there have been cases where casino players...

    Yeah, there have been cases where casino players have used a laser system hidden in mobile phones linked to an app that predicts where a ball is more likely to fall on a particular roulette wheel...
  • Matter is just information. Our perception of...

    Matter is just information.

    Our perception of matter and the world is how we process that information. Vision is as a result of the electromagnetic force, a photon exchanges information between...
  • By "integrated" are you referring to integrated...

    By "integrated" are you referring to integrated information theory (a theory of mind)?

    If so, brb reading up, looks interesting.

    I'm more coming from the "it from bit" of digital physics...
  • Have a read of the fine tuning arguments to flesh...

    Have a read of the fine tuning arguments to flesh out your argument.

    Your second sentence isn't really valid. The fine tuning argument is that without the fine tuning of the universe's fundamental...
  • I lean towards a philosophy of information that...

    I lean towards a philosophy of information that supersedes a materialist vs immaterial (idealist?) divide, that is, everything that exists is information.

    It's materialist in the sense that...
  • Have a more in depth read into what the fine...

    Have a more in depth read into what the fine tuning argument is. I don't think you understand just how fine tuned the universe is to life, and how the values of fundamental constants were even...
  • Governments have always had the right to wage...

    Governments have always had the right to wage war, war involves killing the person you are waging war against. What does the fact that the person the war is being waged against happens to also be a...
  • OP cut out the actual argument in his ellipsis: ...

    OP cut out the actual argument in his ellipsis:




    It seems a terrible argument that greatly over reaches: that if evolution were true, we as products of this flawed process that cares nothing...
  • I don't understand how this or the OP are an...

    I don't understand how this or the OP are an argument for anything to do with a supposed incompatibility of materialism and evolution.

    The behavior is a common trait amongst herd animals, which at...
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    I don't think you are correct. Unless there is...

    I don't think you are correct. Unless there is some case law to the contrary, an ordinary reading of the Florida law would make the ruling of an alternative verdict the prerogative of the jury,...
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