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Originally Posted by Richard of Chelmsford
I would like to make an extensive posting, which may involve four or five separate topics.
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Personally speaking, such extensive postings tend to turn me off. If possible, I would much rather see four or five separate topics brought up and discussed in four or five separate postings.
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Originally Posted by Richard of Chelmsford
The thing is, I have formulated a theory. Let's call it a philosophical theory, not a scientific one because for all I know it might be bursting at the seams with impossibilities.
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Well, philosophies are like, uh, opinions - everybody's got one. If there's no way to discriminate between good ones and bad ones, it's difficult to come to conclusions. Still, I'm curious as to what's on your mind. If your "theory" can't be falsified, you'll certainly hear about it.
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Originally Posted by Richard of Chelmsford
Also, there might be a faint anti-religious content.
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Well, I'm with Paul Kurtz, who says....
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Originally Posted by Kurtz
"...the desire to seek a kind of accommodation by mutual tolerance is understandable, even commendable. Nonetheless speaking as a secularist and skeptic, I believe this should not preclude others within the community from questioning the claims of Biblical, Koranic, or other absolute faiths, particularly since massive efforts are constantly undertaken by missionaries to recruit members to the fold... This posture is especially questionable given the constant effort by militant religionists to apply their doctrines in the political process, thus seeking to impose their views on others."
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Originally Posted by Richard of Chelmsford
What it is is an idea as to the answer of the question. 'Why is there something and not nothing?'.... I think I know.
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Well, going back to your anticipated "extensive posting"....
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Originally Posted by Timothy Ferris
"Ernest Rutherford used to advise his students to distrust any concept (or their command of any concept) that they could not explain to a barmaid. Leon Lederman said, 'If the basic idea is too complicated to fit on a T-shirt, it's probably wrong."
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