Excuse me bro, but there seems to be a mysterious, shiny, black object up your ass. It seems to be manipulating your brain into thinking it's more important than it really is.
I'm unsure about the 8th. Or maybe the 9th. If you can represent the lifetime of a universe as a point (he calls it an infinity), and you can draw a line to another universe with, say, a different gravitational constant, what does that line represent? Is a point half way down that line a universe which had a gravitational constant half way between the other two? If so, what does a branch from that line represent? A change in a different constant? So now all you're doing is mapping 2 starting parameters onto a 2 dimensional space... if there are x starting parameters then they could fill an x dimensional space (in addition to the 6 already discussed). Maybe I missed something in the annotations - need to watch it again. --- Anyway, on the discussion of atheism/agnosticism, I tend towards Dawkins' view: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum_of_theistic_probability Like Dawkins, I'm a 6. Though nowadays much less argumentative than him: people are pretty much fixed in their beliefs. Live and let live.
here is my creed IPU and this one is much easer to understand Carl Sagan's cosmos is still awesome to watch.
God is dead, we no longer need an imaginary entity dictating what is right and wrong. Perhaps, there IS a force/intelligence/concisiousness that dictated the laws of our universe, but honestly, I feel the truth is currently unfathomable by our contemporary bio chemical thought processes. Perhaps with many billions of years of evolution we can re-evaluate our relevance in the universe.
Yea see that's where I'm undecided..because I'm Catholic, but I don't exactly believe in 'God' Rather, I think there's a higher force/intelligence that people named God..or something like that..haha.
so basically we are smarter animals, we get it, not really belief, more fact I'll go for that one you see i believe that we slowly became more intelligent, not stronger, so that we could be the most successful species I agree partly with the peace thing, it was expanded to teach people good and bad (in their opinion) and instill good values in people, but mainly I feel it was communities having things explained to them which they didn't understand, so they said God did it, then the bigger communities made religions I feel that the reasons for many different religions is related to there being communities all with different ideas, in different places, so they never encountered each other before they became religions Well religion is made for comfort yes (or atleast heaven) and the more appealing religions got more members, but also needed ways of controlling and exploiting their members I'm atheist, and the idea of most religions seem, well, ridiculous to me. I'm sorry if i offended you, but that is my opinion, and I don't judge, dislike or challenge religious people (unless they press their views on me)
The earth is more intellegent than us, in fact, we're all part of the same global entity. Don't you see how we're all connected? I'm you and you're me. Listen to that cat stevens song.
