On 11 Jul 2013, at 17:28, John Clark wrote:
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]>
wrote:
>> If I could predict God's future actions by solving partial
differential equations
> I have no idea what you mean by God in that sentence.
It seems odd that now you're the one complaining that the word "God"
is too ambiguous, I thought you were fine with words meaning
whatever and whenever you personally want them to mean whenever.
You confuse "large sense" and "vague sense". It is not the same.
You know what partial differential equations are don't you? Well
then, in the above "God" is anything in which a solution to such a
equation describes the future behavior of that thing.
God would be more like the one knowing the solution of the wave
equation, or responsible for the equation itself, hardly the one
driven by the equation. A bit like the set of all sets cannot be a
set, in most set theories.
Here you assume matter and a material God.
Even Aristotle did not go that far.
And if experiment showed that there was actually something that
corresponded to such a solution then I would be a believer in "God".
Of course in this case the meaning of the English letters G-O-D
would not necessarily be the same, or even be vaguely similar, to
the meaning of that sequence of ASCII characters as used in common
language, but if words can mean whatever you want them to mean that
is no problem.
Words does not mean what we want them to mean, and you just demolished
your own argument.
> you restraint the English language "God" to the post-523
occidental use of the term.
After decrypting the above enigmatic statement as near as I can tell
you are complaining that the common meaning of the English word
"God", the meaning of the word that I have been using, has only been
in common usage for 1490 years. Have I got that about right? Is that
what you're complaining about?
Not just that. They are used since 1490 years by people prerending to
know the truth, and believing in revelation. But the word were used
before by inquirer interrogating all prejudices. I point that those
question make sense again when we work in the computationalist theory.
> You confirm again and again that atheists defends the uniqueness
of the God notion:
That is correct. Atheists know that the God notion is indeed unique
because atheists are logical and have deduced that there can be only
one greatest being who created the universe because that's what
another English word "greatest" means.
You admit you are christian apparently.
> Many Christians have already a larger view.
Many Christians are morons.
Many <anything> are morons. Perhaps.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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