RE: Is nihilism the logical extreme of atheism?
October 12, 2014 at 9:30 am
(This post was last modified: October 12, 2014 at 9:32 am by Chas.)
(October 10, 2014 at 10:04 am)fr0d0 Wrote: The point you mention here, concerns the ability of any creator to create something superior to itself. So far, humans haven't created better humans. Taking it back to a primary level, a substance cannot create something not contained in the source. The singularity had to contain all of the information necessary to form everything in the universe. It isn't possible for the universe to create anything that it doesn't already have the physical information to create.
The level of wrongness contained in your statements show your utter lack of understanding of what information is. Information is created all the time, order emerges from chaos.
And what, exactly, is "physical information"?
(October 12, 2014 at 5:36 am)fr0d0 Wrote: The nylon eating bacteria might be s new species, but it's not something that the universe didn't already contain the information to spawn, do you see?
Where, exactly, was this pre-existing information?
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
