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Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out
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RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out
(September 24, 2014 at 4:32 pm)Blackrook Wrote: Science cannot explain everything. For example, science cannot explain why humans have a conscience.

Wtf are you talking about? Ofcourse science can explain why we have a conscience.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscience#Secular_views

And this is just the summary - for details, look into sociology, psychology and neurobiology pertaining to conscience. Try the links to all those helpful little references.

(September 24, 2014 at 6:20 pm)Madness20 Wrote: The thing is, objectivelly there's nothing to really "deny" the possibility of a god.

Not true - the denial of that possibility rests within the definition of god you subscribe to.

(September 24, 2014 at 6:20 pm)Madness20 Wrote: That's for sure, but "cosmological" possibility of a transcendant, timeless structure as creator of our everything

Take this definition, for example - you use the term creator, implying that you consider this timeless structure to be an agent i.e. being conscious and capable of action. However, both consciousness and action are temporal concepts - they cannot exist in a timeless state. So this definition of god refutes itself.
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Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by Minimalist - September 24, 2014 at 2:45 pm
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by FatAndFaithless - September 24, 2014 at 2:47 pm
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by Simon Moon - September 24, 2014 at 2:54 pm
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by Minimalist - September 24, 2014 at 2:50 pm
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by Whateverist - September 25, 2014 at 12:29 am
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by Tonus - September 24, 2014 at 2:52 pm
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by Dolorian - September 24, 2014 at 3:16 pm
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by Thumpalumpacus - September 24, 2014 at 9:04 pm
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by Surgenator - September 24, 2014 at 2:57 pm
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by Crossless1 - September 24, 2014 at 3:51 pm
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by JesusHChrist - September 24, 2014 at 4:05 pm
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by Blackrook - September 24, 2014 at 4:32 pm
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by FatAndFaithless - September 24, 2014 at 4:35 pm
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by Blackrook - September 24, 2014 at 4:43 pm
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by FatAndFaithless - September 24, 2014 at 4:44 pm
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by Surgenator - September 24, 2014 at 5:02 pm
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by Brakeman - September 24, 2014 at 9:51 pm
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by JesusHChrist - September 24, 2014 at 4:46 pm
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by Jenny A - September 25, 2014 at 12:00 am
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by genkaus - September 25, 2014 at 1:51 am
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by Madness20 - September 25, 2014 at 8:32 am
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by Tonus - September 25, 2014 at 8:40 am
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by Madness20 - September 25, 2014 at 11:02 am
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by Tonus - September 25, 2014 at 12:52 pm
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by genkaus - September 26, 2014 at 4:18 am
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by Madness20 - September 26, 2014 at 5:57 am
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by genkaus - September 26, 2014 at 6:20 am
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by Crossless1 - September 24, 2014 at 4:58 pm
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by Madness20 - September 24, 2014 at 5:37 pm
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by Clueless Morgan - September 24, 2014 at 6:00 pm
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by Madness20 - September 24, 2014 at 6:20 pm
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by Clueless Morgan - September 24, 2014 at 8:01 pm
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by Lemonvariable72 - September 24, 2014 at 6:06 pm
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by Exian - September 24, 2014 at 6:11 pm
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by Madness20 - September 24, 2014 at 6:29 pm
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by Cyberman - September 24, 2014 at 6:08 pm
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by Minimalist - September 24, 2014 at 6:25 pm
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by Exian - September 24, 2014 at 6:26 pm
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by Exian - September 24, 2014 at 7:24 pm
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by Aoi Magi - September 25, 2014 at 12:11 am
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by Cyberman - September 25, 2014 at 12:48 pm
RE: Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out - by MusicLovingAtheist - September 26, 2014 at 12:21 pm

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