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Invitation for Atheists to Debate a Christian via Skype
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RE: Invitation for Atheists to Debate a Christian via Skype
(June 13, 2019 at 4:29 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:
(June 13, 2019 at 2:11 pm)SenseMaker007 Wrote: No, it isn't. The consensus is that acausality works by laws different to causality. Not that it just happens for no reason at all. Chaotic and unpredictable doesn't imply zero laws. If the consensus was that there were no more laws to be discovered on the matter then scientists would just give up searching for them. The whole point of science is to search for explanations.

I think the consensus is the concept of causality does not closely reflect any actual fundamental mechanism, it only empirically describe highly probable sequences of macroscopic appearances.  

At the deepest level, things literally happen just because of nothing.  It just happens.   But the outcome of happens follows interrelated probabilities and do so by no discernible mechanism.   Hence no cause, but property.    When enormous numbers of these properties occurs and are viewed over large scale, they take on the appearance of larger events that appear to be strongly inclined to occur in particular sequences.   Our cognitive mechanisms than assign the earlier evens as causes of latter ones.   That framework in fact is pretty good and predicting things.   But not perfect.    But that framework will eventually break down if larger events are interatively broken down into their consentient subevents

As you know from QM, the probability that a bound electron in a hydrogen atom can be found in certain locations is zero, while at the same time transitioning "across" that region without any issues.
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RE: Invitation for Atheists to Debate a Christian via Skype - by Jehanne - June 13, 2019 at 8:51 pm

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