existence

I didn't exist long before I was born and similarly I will not exist after I die. At least that's what many people on this forum think. If so, does it mean that the nonexistence before I was born (let's name it nonexistence 1) the same thing as the nonexistence after my death (let's name it...

I thought that maybe God needs a better champion than Yrreg. This argument does not seem to have been discussed here before, so I thought I would run it up the flagpole www.lastseminary.com/cosmological-argument/A%20New%20Cosmological%20Argument.pdf and see what people made of it. My...

This is an agument for god's existence I heard recently. It starts by proving something must be eternal: What is eternal? There are 4 possiblities (please bring up any others that you can think of) All is material and only material things are eternal (Material Monism) All is spirit and only...

The 4d universe cannot be comprised of multiple indivisible parts/things. Why? ... Indivisibility of a 4d object means that the object is the same throughout, so that there is no way to differentiate 'any part' of it from another. Hence, there is zero distance of length and time within an...

Hi Everyone, I have been lurking around here for some time in hopes of finding the best way to appy for the challenge. Since I am still in the dark on how to do so I am coming here for advice. A little background to me: When I was a young child of the age of 5 I was hit by a car travelling...

I guess I could just do a Google search, but I'd rather hear from people here rather than slog through dozens of pages. Are there sources outside of the Gospels that support the existence of Jesus?

Isn't it amazing that anything exists at all, let alone that it's capable of being aware of itself? The probabilities must have been astounding that anything should just up and appear out of nowhere (in other words from absolute nothingness), and then, for the whole thing to take form and...

Jack Kilby passed away not to long ago. He was the inventor of the integrated circuit, when he was at Texas Instruments. The Chairman of TI said "In my opinion, there are only a handful of people whose works have truly transformed the world and the way we live in it – Henry Ford, Thomas...

http://www.revisionism.nl/Moon/The-Mad-Revisionist.htm

The God described in the New Testament cannot possibly exist. More children - children - were killed in that earthquake and tsunami than the entire population of the town I grew up in. What kind of higher power lets that happen? What kind of higher benevolent power lets water tear...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3971045.stm Wonder what 1inC makes of it all?

If anyone wants to see my argument, Who Created God? beautifully laid out, here it is ... I just got through reading the first half of it, and thus far it describes what I've said or, meant to say, word for word. The guy holds a PhD in micro-biology as well. If nothing else it's a great reference.

1: With God all things are possible. 2: God would have to be with God. 3: Therefore God is possible. SEE! I put it in numbered steps! I proved it!

1) Every truth leads to another one. Otherwise, truth's limit would be a non-truth, in which truth is going to find its beginning and its end. In that case, false propositions would proceed to true ones, and true ones would generate false ones as well. 2) Thus, every truth, whatever it may be...

if time presupposes the big bang then how can the singularity exist to cause the big bang without the presence of time? I guess I'm asking can something exist without the existence of time? Also, In George H. Smith's Atheism The Case Against God (pgs. 240-1)he argues that causality presupposes...

According to this article in The Times a physicist (who is also religious) has used Bayes Theorem to calculate that there is a 66% chance that God exists, given all the data we have. Well, I guess it's a bit better that 50%, but still not too persuasive :) Worth a flutter at the bookies, maybe.

http://www.godlessgeeks.com/LINKS/GodProof.htm

Time = change... Existence in flux. But existence must precede the flux which occurs to it. Change is merely an effect or occurance which happens to existence, whatever It may be. Therefore, there is a timeless existence - and change (time) is something that has been imposed upon it, by...

The existence of some tangible entity or entities is ascertained, I should think. Who here will argue that 'nothing', fundamentally, does exist? So, existence is. There is a reality of something, and not nothing. We can say that existence cannot be finite or bounded in any way whatsoever. A...