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  1. opaltiger

    Life after Death?

    And yet you admit there is randomness in the universe. Randomness seems to heavily imply spontaneity to me. You are looking at this in a much too polarised way. Of course our choices have causes: but do certain causes demand a certain choice? I don't think so. You might say that because of...
  2. opaltiger

    Life after Death?

    Stop backpedalling. You unequivocally said there was no spontaneity in nature. There is. The moment randomness is introduced into the equation, we cannot have predeterminism, and that very much implies that we are capable of making choices. The capability to make choices is free will. But let's...
  3. opaltiger

    Life after Death?

    Clearly you have never heard of quantum mechanics.
  4. opaltiger

    Life after Death?

    You don't get to make statements like that without backing them up.
  5. opaltiger

    Life after Death?

    Only because you completely misunderstood what he was saying. MD meant that a world with free will that is nevertheless predestined (i.e. God knows everything that will happen) can be no different from a world with no free will, since in both cases individuals will carry out a certain action no...
  6. opaltiger

    Life after Death?

    It depends on the kind of deism. Einstein was all "I see God in the natural laws of the universe etc etc" (paraphrasing) which is just slightly more poetic atheism.
  7. opaltiger

    Life after Death?

    Note: throwing around dystopian novels is not a valid debating tactic. The world cannot be perfect with free will. eta: exciting idea: you can't understand god because she/he/it doesn't exist!
  8. opaltiger

    Life after Death?

    Omnipotence contradicts itself. Omniscience contradicts itself. Why are we even having this discussion?
  9. opaltiger

    Life after Death?

    ... well, yes. Something that is eternal by definition has no cause; but I find that easier to believe than something not eternal which has no cause. To put it another way, I find it easier to believe that the universe has always existed (in some form or another) than to think it was created by...
  10. opaltiger

    Life after Death?

    ... I have absolutely no clue what you're on about. But. Either you have something from nothing, or an eternal something. The latter sounds a lot more convincing, since something existed before the Big Bang, too. eta: hahaha pascal's wager. that is not going to convince anyone. it is deeply...
  11. opaltiger

    Life after Death?

    Once you realise that time quite literally started with the Big Bang, but that there was something present before that too, it's not too big of a conundrum. If we've got something before time, eternal existence is nothing. eta: plus at that point our understanding of the term "eternal" is really...
  12. opaltiger

    Life after Death?

    Violation of the law of conservation of energy. There must be something in the universe that either a) hasn't got a cause or b) exists eternally. My money is on the latter.
  13. opaltiger

    Life after Death?

    I would propose it is marginally more likely to return from Hell than to return from not being.
  14. opaltiger

    Life after Death?

    Of course! And that's the problem. The whole idea of the Bible as a book that guides people morally etc etc. falls apart if they are free to ignore any bits they don't like (and I sincerely doubt there is one person in the world who doesn't ignore parts of the Bible.
  15. opaltiger

    Life after Death?

    I would love to see your source about this "energy field".
  16. opaltiger

    Life after Death?

    This is a complete fabrication. Kindly stop repeating it.
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