Hi Stephen, On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Stephen Paul King <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Brent, > > I have had a couple of experiences that proved to me that there exists > something like the theist God. Things that I can not explain otherwise are > some kind of "divine intervention" that saved my life. Could there be an > explanation that is completely secular? > Could it be explained by MWI + anthropic principle? You died in a large number of branches, in the ones where you survived something very unlikely necessarily happened? > I am open to such, but its like arguing that something like the > spontaneous unscrambling of an egg actually happened but one does not have > a collection of unimpeachable witnesses available. > > Ever you have an experience that is like Mitra's history rewrite idea > http://arxiv.org/abs/0902.3825? I have! > I love this idea and I bet on its validity. That being said, how can you know you had such an experience? Could you elaborate? Cheers, Telmo. > > > On Monday, October 6, 2014 2:15:44 PM UTC-4, Brent wrote: >> >> Here's an interesting interview of a philosopher who is interested in the >> question of >> whether God exists. The interesting thing about it, for this list, is >> that "God" is >> implicitly the god of theism, and is not "one's reason for existence" or >> "the unprovable >> truths of arithmetic". >> >> Brent >> >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> >> >> >> http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/05/can- >> wanting-to-believe-make-us-believers/ >> >> >> Gary Gutting: "This is the 12th and last in a series of interviews about >> religion that I >> am conducting for The Stone. The interviewee for this installment is >> Daniel Garber, a >> professor of philosophy at Princeton University, specializing in >> philosophy and science in >> the period of Galileo and Newton. In a week or two, I’ll conclude with a >> wrap-up column on >> the series." >> >> ... >> >> Daniel Garber: "Certainly there are serious philosophers who would deny >> that the arguments >> for the existence of God have been decisively refuted. But even so, my >> impression is that >> proofs for the existence of God have ceased to be a matter of serious >> discussion outside >> of the domain of professional philosophy of religion. And even there, my >> sense is that the >> discussions are largely a matter of academic interest: The real passion >> has gone out of >> the question." >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
