(April 18, 2012 at 4:08 pm)WallaceT Wrote: There's nothing pointlessly random about physics? Very interesting view indeed.Interesting how? Please expand. Physics operates in discernable, predictable ways. If it didn't, we wouldn't be around to know about it. Not for long anyway.
(April 18, 2012 at 4:08 pm)WallaceT Wrote: "the rational position is to presume the entity does not exist". I don't agree I think the rational position is to presume nothing.I never said to presume nothing. Let's try it from another angle. We have a system - the Universe - which operates quite happily all by itself. Physical matter obeying physical principles. If someone proposes an entity additional to the system, but for which there is no evidence, the rational position truly is to presume the entity does not exist.
I think perhaps part of the problem is due to your partial quoting of my post to make your point. Please refrain from doing this, as there is a risk of misquoting, inadvertantly or otherwise. This is a form of quote-mining and it's not only dishonest but very rude. You get the benefit of the doubt this one time but that's all. Ok?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
