Recent content by LindaGarrette

In a sense, everyone is agnostic because no one knows there is a god. Some people believe there is and they are theists. Others don't believe and they are athiests. Pretty simple.

No one knows what caused the universe to come into existence. It could have been the result of colliding d-branes. Nevertheless, there is no evidence of any uncaused event in space/time. The jury is still out on QM. Most of what you are suggesting is conjecture. Without the law of...

What is an "internal cause." How is that not deterministic? A cause is a cause. We use the term "chance" (rather losely) to describe an event that has no evident cause, evident to us, that is because we don't have perfect knowledge of all the precedent events. "Accident" is another term...

Let's look at that another way, where we could have control over the variables. Tossing a coin in an open system yields about half the time heads and half the time tails. But if you remove all the variables, the toss would end up the same every time. The reason you don't want to understand...

Do you have a serious comment?

You are right about that... there is no evidence of "free will." You would never be able to find evidence that you would do anything differently a second time around, given the same exact circumstances. The evidence is quite the contrary. As in all systems where we know the factors, an...

What is that "something within us?" It would have to be something metaphysical since everything we do can be explained by natural laws. To have free will (be able to choose randomly) would be pretty disasterous. Suppose you were deciding what to have for lunch. The physical limitations are...

Can you give an example (in numbers) of the value of E changing as v approaches c? I just need some illustration to get my mind around it.

Many scientists (including Sherlock) may disagree, but I think everything is causally determined, even at the quantum level. Only because there isn't enough evidence to the contrary. But, the effect of any quantum interaction on space time reality would be irrelevant. (Oops, Looks like my...

QM does not effect space/time reality. They are two separate issues. Even so, there is no evidence that quantum events are not caused, only "uncertainty." (I don't mean the Heisenberg usage, here.)

That is not correct. First of all, There is no adequate hypothesis to explain "uncertainty." There is a lot of conjecture. Second, even if there were uncertainty at the quantum level, any effect would be canceled out in space/time reality. These are two separate issues which should not be...

You are quoting me out of context and not paying attention to what I said. Obviously, determinism means predictability, otherwise, scientific experiments would have random results. I specifically excluded quantum effects. Space time calculations and observations have nothing in common...

This pretty much sums up my conception of the process. There just can't be any impossible or mysterious factors involved. We just haven't identified all the properties and restrictions on their motion. Unless I miss the point, communication at a distance is merely speculation, right? :shy:

Infinity is a mathematical construct which does not exist in space/time reality. To prove there is a god, you have to state the hypothesis in a negative form: There is a god because no evidence exists to the contrary. (Like, all crows are black because there is no evidence to the...

Those events do not exist in space/time and cannot be observed. You need to come up with a real example.