Will I finally know why the chicken crossed the road?

(May 1, 2019 at 4:50 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:

(May 1, 2019 at 4:47 pm)madog Wrote: haha  ... has he got a new series  ... not been keeping up 

Yeah.  The new Doctor's a woman.

Still haven't decided if I like her or not.

She irritates me. She has one move. She squints at the problem says something ditzy, then throws up her arms and says some pseudo intellectual nonsense the announcing her brilliance.

(May 2, 2019 at 4:52 am)downbeatplumb Wrote:

(May 1, 2019 at 4:50 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Yeah.  The new Doctor's a woman.

Still haven't decided if I like her or not.

She irritates me. She has one move. She squints at the problem says something ditzy, then throws up her arms and says some pseudo intellectual nonsense the announcing her brilliance.

It comes with experience.... over 1000 years of it.

(May 1, 2019 at 6:05 pm)CDF47 Wrote: I explained how. I see it similar to how we could know everything about a computer simulation including the numbers of hairs on a virtual person's head.  Similarly God knows everything about us.

A. computer simulations are not outside time and space

B. computer simulations have long gone beyond mere predictability a long time ago.

Take for example simulators of collisions between galaxies. Why would those exist if it were possible to know in advance what the result would be? Are you really that much of a moron?

(May 2, 2019 at 1:45 am)no one Wrote: You can explain how 2+2=4 to a barstool until the cows come home, doesn't mean it will understand. 

(April 23, 2019 at 11:04 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:

(April 23, 2019 at 10:08 pm)CDF47 Wrote: I am not an evolved ape. 

Science does not say that.  Look at the Day-Age Interpretation of the Bible.  I think you must know by now that you were created.  How could you not?

Actually prophecies in the Bible came true. It is the only source that can truly make that claim.

Ma' tyer yebyets

(May 2, 2019 at 6:39 am)Abaddon_ire Wrote:

(May 1, 2019 at 6:05 pm)CDF47 Wrote: I explained how. I see it similar to how we could know everything about a computer simulation including the numbers of hairs on a virtual person's head.  Similarly God knows everything about us.

A. computer simulations are not outside time and space

B. computer simulations have long gone beyond mere predictability a long time ago.

Take for example simulators of collisions between galaxies. Why would those exist if it were possible to know in advance what the result would be? Are you really that much of a moron?

Galaxies collide...big deal.

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(May 2, 2019 at 8:06 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:

(May 2, 2019 at 1:45 am)no one Wrote: You can explain how 2+2=4 to a barstool until the cows come home, doesn't mean it will understand. 

That's the truth.lol

By the end of this post I will have made a prophecy that came true. My prophecy is that I'm going to announce that my prophecy came true, and then I'm gonna to point out how accurate my prophecy was.

You see, a prophecy in the sense of predicting that something will happen, which then happens, doesn't require supernatural knowledge. You could make a lot of guesses, and count on people's tendency to remember the hits and forget the misses. Dion Fortune built her career on that. You could pass on an oral tradition and incorporate new events in a way that seems to the casual observer that they were successfully predicted when they had already happened at the time of the story's revision. You could have a canny enough grasp of current events to be able to discern the long-term results, or understand how history repeats itself (there will be wars and rumors of wars, famines and plagues, Kingdoms coming to ruin, summers and winters, etc.). You could take it on yourself to make sure the events you've predicted actually happen (as I'm about to do). I've not exhausted the non-supernatural possibilities at all.

You could even understand that prophecies aren't necessarily predictions at all, they can be inspirational, or admonitions, a prophecy is supposed to be a message from a deity. Maybe you should start a thread about prophecy if that's what you want to hang your hat on. Anyway, my prophecy came true. 100% accuracy, and it wasn't even in the Bible.

We already covered the prophecy ground over a thousand pages ago.  Honestly, we've covered all of the IDiot ground.

CDF cannot accept that the "prophecies" in magic book are not only not prophecy, but that they also do not come true - even when presented with evidence demonstrating that fact.  He resorted, instead, to the incomprehensible claim that a city in a picture simply wasn't there.  For example.

CDF cannot accept any scholarly position on the contents or composition of magic book.

CDF cannot accept that there is a known mechanism for "design" in nature, by which gradual changes in a population are sifted through a life and death pass/fail selection process.  

CDF cannot accept that "information" has known vectors of origin outside of any mind, by simple material interactions, of which DNA is a wildly over-representative subject.

CDF cannot accept that the laws of heredity establish his relationship with other primates, rather than his being a descendant of a mud man and rib woman.

CDF cannot accept that mt-eve and y-adam were not breeding partners.  

CDF cannot accept that speciation has been observed in the lab and in the field.

CDF cannot accept that ID was an intentional political wedge rather than a scientific hypothesis.

Finally.....

CDF cannot accept that anyone else is less credulous than himself.