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Let's unpack the "pet-the-tiger-by-running-from-it" argument. We pet things by, at a minimum, getting close to them and touching them. If someone thinks they can get close to something and touch it by running away from it - how are they going to eat? How will they form a rela...

@shizzleman8 Admittedly, a deeper understanding of consciousness is something that we are still striving to attain. Chalmers posits "qualia" while others reject such notions.

As far as mind-body dualism, that's a fascinating debate. I've been listening to a lot of Podcasts on Hume, Locke, an...

@hexusziggurat This beginning is the expansion of space-time itself. No moments in space-time occurred before this expansion. In other words, there were no moments in space-time in which the universe did not exist.

"Before" t=0, the singularity was there as a ball of infinite curvature. Space...

I've actually been listening to Dr. Craig's Reasonable Faith podcasts lately. I don't agree with his arguments, but I do respect him.

The man has put a lot of thought into his belief system. He earned a PhD - a tremendous accomplishment that only a fraction of the world's population has achiev...

@axe414 That's a poetic way of putting it, but I don't think faith is a legitimate pathway to truth.

I need some kind of evidence. I need outside referents accessible to all. I don't need appeals to the unfalsifiable, untestable, undetectable, etc.

I DON'T need absolute certainty, but I DO ne...