RE: Quick Poll - Do you believe in God?
June 2, 2015 at 5:44 am
(This post was last modified: June 2, 2015 at 5:45 am by Tonus.)
(June 2, 2015 at 4:02 am)Little Rik Wrote: Actually you should blame yourself for saying things that don't make any sense.I am pointing out how vacuous that statement is. It is, in fact, easy to get anything in life. A drink of water, for example. Quite easy to get. Your poor communication skills are not my problem, but they do impede your attempts to get any sort of point across. And your unwillingness to accept correction or clarification of your points simply leads you to dig in deeper on the silly things you say, which leads to even sillier statements.
All i do is to remind you of your lack of reasoning when you say.....It's pretty easy to get anything in life.
Little Rik Wrote:This reinforce the fact that you are dead wrong when you say that everything is easy.I didn't say everything is easy. I said it's easy to get anything. I can easily explain what I meant, as I did above. You don't even seem to understand what you wrote, much less explain it coherently. As I keep pointing out, this is not my problem, it is yours.
Little Rik Wrote:All the researches have so far find out is that brain and mind are connected to each other.They have found much more than that. They are mapping the brain's functions and learning where all of the centers of its activity are located... including the mind.
Little Rik Wrote:One can not do without the other.Without the brain, there is no mind. You may claim otherwise because it fits your outmoded beliefs, but wanting something to be true is insufficient.
Little Rik Wrote:That does not mean that the mind is a function of the brain.That is exactly what it means. We know that damaging certain parts of the brain can cause behavioral changes in people, which means that parts of the mind are located in specific regions of the brain. In other words, our mind is not one single cohesive entity: it is an amalgam of parts working together, usually efficiently but with quirks. But often the loss or damage of one part affects us in ways that are noticeable, and even if one part isn't working right it can cause psychological problems. A person may be suffering from a delusion of some kind, but otherwise appear normal because most of the mind is working normally while one part is not. As we keep learning more and more about the human mind, people like you will have to become more stubborn and more resistant to reality in order to continue to promote your beliefs. But stubbornness and ignorance do not make your beliefs true.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould