Philosophy - December 2007

Thank you!

2007-12-01 12:20:45 · 5 answers · asked by Alexander K 3

...if the honey bees become extinct.

Several Countries are already pollenating fruit trees and vegetable plants by hand, becuase of the extinction of the honey bee. The problem seems to be spreding globally.

Will farmers be able to produce food fast enough, with the aid of bees?...in order to feed the current population?

2007-12-01 12:07:58 · 9 answers · asked by Stony 4

...from the most microscopic thing to the cosmos?

2007-12-01 11:53:57 · 17 answers · asked by Alexander K 3

I mean... it is posible that the Internet can reach a point, where all the computers conected to it, became some sort of neurons working together as a super brain, carrying most of the human knowlege and eventually became conscious of its own existence?

2007-12-01 11:49:20 · 6 answers · asked by vasheim 2

Although the strike is coming to an end...hopefully...I'm just curious to know what you think will be some of the long-term affects and if video streaming will become more popular

2007-12-01 11:09:09 · 1 answers · asked by lovely 2

2007-12-01 10:57:18 · 8 answers · asked by gldnsilnc 6

Yesterday, as I was eating dinner at a party, I became somewhat disgusted at the thought that all living human beings have to eat parts of animal carcusses or weird looking plants to obtain energy. Food actually looked disgusting to me for a change, which is pretty rare considering my love of food! It was a very strange feeling that I have never really felt before in my life.

2007-12-01 10:46:30 · 8 answers · asked by YahooAnswers 5

and if anything, then we are nothing!
How many of us can live with that simple truth?

2007-12-01 10:45:23 · 5 answers · asked by Freeman 5

2007-12-01 09:52:47 · 10 answers · asked by j_emmans 6

that people who laugh a lot live longer than people who don't laugh as much?

2007-12-01 09:52:31 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I want to know--critically black and white--How does it make you feel?
Scared? Why?
Joyful? Why?
Content?

by William Watson:
"Yet I know that I dwell in the midst of the roar of the Cosmic Wheel
in the hot collision of forces, and the
clangor of boundless strife,
mid the sound of the speed of worlds, the rushing worlds,
and the peal
of the thunder of life."

I personally feel comfort in those words knowing that there IS "the thunder of life," not just some drab existential environment that goes on and on. We are not just "dust in the wind."

2007-12-01 09:52:05 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

What is the difference in short words?

2007-12-01 09:51:33 · 1 answers · asked by sweetness 2

....sometime before you die????

2007-12-01 09:44:23 · 16 answers · asked by King of Biscuits 6

Isn't life soooo simple.??? YES. it is. we make it so complicated. the hardships in our lives are created and destroyed only by our own ignorance. PEOPLE ARE SO STUPID. we have so much. we should be joyful and happy just because we are alive and healthy. instead, we search for imperfections in our lives and dwell on them. Life really is simple. All we need to do is apprecaite it. We need to live knowing that we don't have forever. We need to cherish every stupid little moment and take advantage of EVERYTHING. why don't we? why don't i?maybe it is just human nature. but i am determined to defeat it. it is far too much of a waste to let it control my life.

i would like to know people's opinions on this.

WHY ARE WE CONSTANTLY DIS-SATISFIED? WHY IS IT SO HARD TO FIND A STATE OF CONTENTMENT?

2007-12-01 09:44:00 · 9 answers · asked by Hey You 1

You might say "it's in my head." That is common for people to assume this.

But really, how do you know that is true?

Although the brain itself is within the skull, that does not mean that the mind is. The mind is impalpable.

So, where is it? Is there an actual physical location of the mind itself?

If you think that the mind is within your physical head, that is an acceptable response. But please elaborate on your reasoning behind that assumption.

2007-12-01 09:37:05 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

You guys already know everything about the Brit sent to prison for giving a teddy bear the name of prophet Mohammad. The papers say it is outrageous an old woman will be sent to prison for such an innocent mistake. I am pretty sure she did not mean to insult Islam or something, but is it not a little bit rude to go abroad pretending British standards will prevail whatever the country you might be in? I feel really sorry for this woman, but I think she should have gathered some information on Sudan and what Islam is like before venturing herself into it. The Sudanese have been somewhat lenient on her ever since the usual punishment for this sort of things is either 40 slashes or a year in prison. What do you guys make of it?

2007-12-01 09:32:58 · 29 answers · asked by george 3

I just dont get it.....why is it that one day your on top of the world and the next day you could be down in the pit? why the rollercoaster ride?

2007-12-01 09:28:32 · 17 answers · asked by nn_flz 1

What is your opinion on the law of attraction that states everything is made up of energy and by thinking and feeling in certain way we can be, do and have what we want.

2007-12-01 09:27:37 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-01 09:26:54 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

"It's not what you know, it's who you know!"

2007-12-01 09:24:27 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-01 09:23:35 · 21 answers · asked by Douglas J 1

2007-12-01 09:11:20 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

for foundational principles, etcetera. just a question, not a judgement

2007-12-01 09:03:34 · 3 answers · asked by Book of Changes 3

Hi all

can you define what the intuition is generally?

thank you

2007-12-01 09:02:50 · 7 answers · asked by YOON JIn 1

Most leaders of political or religious causes leave an image of themselves for people to remember them. Did Jesus leave an image of himself and why did he or did he not?

2007-12-01 08:18:03 · 7 answers · asked by uglyjesus57 1

The Scientific World is turning to God.
“As people have certainly been influenced by me, I want to try and correct the enormous damage I may have done.” (Anthony Flew)
The newspapers these days are echoing with these regret-filled words by Antony Flew, in his time a well-known atheist philosopher. The 81-year-old British professor of philosophy Flew chose to become an atheist at the age of 15, and first made a name for himself in the academic field with a paper published in 1950. In the 54 years that followed, he defended atheism as a teacher at the universities of Oxford, Aberdeen, Keele and Reading, at many American and Canadian universities he visited, in debates, books, lecture halls and articles. In recent days, however, Flew has announced that he has abandoned this error and accepts that the universe was created.
The decisive factor in this radical change of view is the clear and definitive evidence revealed by science on the subject of creation. Flew realized, in the face of the information-based complexity of life, that the true origin of life is intelligent design and that the atheism he had espoused for 66 years was a discredited philosophy.
Flew announced the scientific reasons underlying this change in belief in these terms:
“Biologists’ investigation of DNA has shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce [life], that intelligence must have been involved.”[1]
“It has become inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing organism.”[2]
“I have been persuaded that it is simply out of the question that the first living matter evolved out of dead matter and then developed into an extraordinarily complicated creature.”[3]
The DNA research which Flew cites as a fundamental reason for his change of opinion has indeed revealed striking facts about creation. The helix shape of the DNA molecule, its possession of the genetic code, the nucleotide strings that refute blind chance, the storage of encyclopedic quantities of information and many other striking findings have revealed that the structure and functions of this molecule were arranged for life with a special design. Comments by scientists concerned with DNA research bear witness to this fact.
Francis Crick, for instance, one of the scientists who revealed the helix shape of DNA admitted in the face of the findings regarding DNA that the origin of life indicated a miracle:
An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.[4]
Based on his calculations, Led Adleman of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles has stated that one gram of DNA can store as much information as a trillion compact discs.[5] Gene Myers, a scientist employed on the Human Genome Project, has said the following in the face of the miraculous arrangements he witnessed:
“What really astounds me is the architecture of life… The system is extremely complex. It’s like it was designed… There’s a huge intelligence there.”[6]
The most striking fact about DNA is that the existence of the coded genetic information can definitely not be explained in terms of matter and energy or natural laws. Dr. Werner Gitt, a professor at the German Federal Institute of Physics and Technology, has said this on the subject:
A code system is always the result of a mental process… It should be emphasized that matter as such is unable to generate any code. All experiences indicate that a thinking being voluntarily exercising his own free will, cognition, and creativity, is required… There is no known natural law through which matter can give rise to information, neither is any physical process or material phenomenon known that can do this.[7]
Creationist scientists and philosophers played a major role in Flew’s acceptance of intelligent design, backed up by all these findings. In recent times Flew participated in debates with scientists and philosophers who were proponents of creation, and exchanged ideas with them. The final turning point in that process was a discussion organized by the Institute for Metascientific Research in Texas in May, 2003. Professor Flew participated in the discussion together with the author, Roy Abraham Varghese, a physicist, and the molecular biologist, Gerald Schroeder. Flew was impressed by the weight of the scientific evidence in favor of creation and by the convincing nature of his opponents’ arguments and abandoned atheism as an idea in the period following that discussion. In a letter he wrote for the August-September, 2003, edition of the British magazine Philosophy Now, he recommended Schroeder’s book “The Hidden Face of God: Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth” and Varghese’s book “The Wonderful World.”[8] During an interview with the professor of philosophy and theology Gary R. Habermas, who also played a major role in his change of mind,[9] and also on the video “Has Science Discovered God?” he openly stated that he believed in intelligent design.
The “Intelligence Pervading the Universe” and the Collapse of Atheism
In the face of all the scientific developments outlined above, the acceptance of intelligent design by Anthony Flew, famous for defending atheism for many years, reflects a final scene in the process of collapse which atheism is being subjected to Modern science has revealed the existence of an “intelligence pervading the universe,” thus leaving atheism out of the equation.
In his book “The Hidden Face of God,” Gerald Schroeder, one of the creationist scientists who influenced Flew, writes:
A single consciousness, a universal wisdom, pervades the universe. The discoveries of science, those that search the quantum nature of subatomic matter, have moved us to the brink of a startling realization: all existence is the expression of this wisdom. In the laboratories we experience it as information that first physically articulated as energy and then condensed into the form of matter. Every particle, every being, from atom to human, appears to represent a level of information, of wisdom.[10]
Scientific research into both the functioning of the cell and the subatomic particles of matter has revealed this fact in an indisputable manner: Life and the universe were brought into being from nothing by the will of an entity possessed of a superior mind and wisdom. There is no doubt that the possessor of that knowledge and mind that designed the universe at all levels is Almighty God. God reveals these truths in many verses of the Quran.



Footnotes:
[1] Richard N. Ostling, “Lifelong atheist changes mind about divine creator,” The Washington Times 10 December 2004; (http://washingtontimes.com/national/20041209-113212-2782r.htm.)
[2] Antony Flew, “Letter from Antony Flew on Darwinism and Theology,” Philosophy Now; (http://www.philosophynow.org/issue47/47flew.htm.)
[3] Stuart Wavell and Will Iredale, “Sorry, says atheist-in-chief, I do believe in God after all,” The Sunday Times, 12 December 2004; (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1400368,00.html)
[4] Francis Crick, Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981, p. 88
[5] John Whitfield, “Physicists plunder life’s tool chest”, 24 April 2003; (http://www.nature.com/nsu/030421/030421-6.html)
[6] San Francisco Chronicle, 19 February, 2001
[7] Werner Gitt, In the Beginning Was Information, CLV, Bielenfeld, Germany, pp. 64-7, 79
[8] Antony Flew, “Letter from Antony Flew on Darwinism and Theology,” Philosophy Now; (http://www.philosophynow.org/issue47/47flew.htm.)
[9] “Atheist Becomes Theist: Exclusive Interview with Former Atheist Antony Flew;” (http://www.biola.edu/antonyflew/index.cfm.)
[10] Gerald Schroeder, The Hidden Face of God, Touchston

2007-12-01 08:11:43 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Examples would be welcomed, for example, it may be difficult to prove God exists beyond a shadow of a doubt, but impossible to prove He does not exist.

2007-12-01 07:58:39 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do you wish people were forms of energy so we didnt have to look at all the strange looking people...

2007-12-01 07:37:06 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

if you are a science fiction author , how would you design your own house accoirding to your predictions about the future?

2007-12-01 07:10:26 · 4 answers · asked by super_miss73 1

would you still seek it out?

2007-12-01 07:03:47 · 5 answers · asked by bagel lover 3