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Post by cotes777 on Sept 2, 2023 3:22:55 GMT
Interesting question HAL. My opinion is faith and "trusting in..." are the same. So, yes, you have faith that your crew is competent. To your first point, it is what you put your faith in that counts [and with humans...when].
I would mention that faith is both spiritual and earthly
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Post by HAL on Oct 21, 2023 14:15:52 GMT
Not quite the same thing, though I do see where you are coming from. Trust that the constructors and maintenance people (and the crew) is based on the training they have been given, This training is a real thing that can be measured. Whereas faith in the religious sense is based on something that can't be measured at all. And it relies upon the fact that it can't be disproved. The competence of the people involved in my case can be measured directly.
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Post by cotes777 on Oct 22, 2023 1:18:24 GMT
Hi HAL - I can appreciate your thinking. Point taken.
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Post by buoyant on Jan 24, 2024 23:22:55 GMT
I'm an atheist but paradoxically doubt the existence of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.
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Post by purr on Jan 28, 2024 18:04:07 GMT
I'm an atheist but paradoxically doubt the existence of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. Buoyant, that does seem a tad paradox-like indeed. Wouldn't an 'unguided' Cosmic Inflation, Abiogenesis and Evolution of earthly life forms imply that we along with everything else are caused by the laws of physics in Space-Time? Wouldn't this make it improbable that Earth species, including Homo Sapiens are the only one in the Universe? Don't you think that similar conditions, physics prevail on other Earth-like planets, with the same opportunity for life to emerge? purr
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Post by HAL on Jan 31, 2024 14:11:13 GMT
I'm an atheist but paradoxically doubt the existence of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. I don't see how atheism would relate to intelligence elsewhere in the Universe.
atheism simply means that one does not accept that there is a God in the religious sense. It does not rule out the possibility of some creator- entity. But does not pretend to know anything of it. Greg Bear, in his novel 'Eon', refers to it as 'The Final Mind'.
Basically it is turtles all the way down.
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Post by LJ on Feb 20, 2024 0:28:04 GMT
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe"As the universe's expansion is accelerating, all currently observable objects, outside the local supercluster, will eventually appear to freeze in time, while emitting progressively redder and fainter light. For instance, objects with the current redshift z from 5 to 10 will only be observable up to an age of 4–6 billion years. In addition, light emitted by objects currently situated beyond a certain comoving distance (currently about 19 billion parsecs) will NEVER reach Earth."
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Post by LJ on Feb 20, 2024 0:32:17 GMT
@ drwu
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Post by HAL on Feb 20, 2024 22:42:52 GMT
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe"As the universe's expansion is accelerating, all currently observable objects, outside the local supercluster, will eventually appear to freeze in time, while emitting progressively redder and fainter light. For instance, objects with the current redshift z from 5 to 10 will only be observable up to an age of 4–6 billion years. In addition, light emitted by objects currently situated beyond a certain comoving distance (currently about 19 billion parsecs) will NEVER reach Earth." Why worry ?
The Earth will have been engulfed by our expanding Sun long before that.
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