(August 30, 2010 at 12:42 pm)Existentialist Wrote: But you're talking about an infinitesimal probability of the existence of God which is an infinite concept. Which concept wins in that calculation? In such an environment, certainty is essential.
It's situations like this when mathmatics gives physicists infinities as a result of an equation that's suppost to be a part of physical reality, it's always regarded as a major problem with the mathmatics that must be ruled out because, in reality, there are no infinities. (Physicists have the same regard for tacheons, but it's not as widespread and some theories can produce them and some cannot.)
Which I suppose proves, if anything, that nothing that exists can be infinate anything and even when physicists speak of infinite anythings, they usually just mean there's more of (something) than anything else (such as when they describe certain properties of black holes).
So... yeah. No infinities.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
