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Please, bear with me, Enoch. You'll have to hold my hand through this until I understand what exactly you are saying. Are you saying then the order is premise, theory, "parable"?
Why do you give natural selection "intention"? Is it valid? Also, it seems to me that you are incorporating ideas from the theory of evolution into the universe as a whole by saying that it would "want" the strongest outcome. First, the two ideas (evolution and universal development and expansion), as far as I know are not synonymous. Secondly, I would like to understand your reasoning for saying that the universe would "want the strongest outcome". I would think that it would only work to maintain a balanced one. Furthermore, what is your opinion then on entropy?
Originally posted by Lucid Lunacy
reply to post by cody599
But the bible was written originally in Aramaic
Then Hebrew if I recall correctly
So why bring Greek into it ?
Hebrew then Greek and Aramaic. Then Latin. If I recall correctly.
Originally posted by artemisminion
Ever notice no scientist ever comes to the conclusion of intelligent design from experimentation. They always have a religious awakening and then try to cram science in to it.....
edit on 16-7-2013 by artemisminion because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Philodemus
They hardly ever say the "creative force" is something outside of this universe. I might be wrong though, but that is the impression I get.
In Humanity,
Daniel
Originally posted by bottleslingguy
reply to post by EnochWasRight
the tree of life was a subject way before the Hebrew language was thought of so as far as having an exclusive claim on God, you should give it a rest.
Originally posted by Philodemus
reply to post by EnochWasRightCan you explain how scripture an axiom? I see an axiom to be a statement that identifies the base of knowledge and of any further statement pertaining to that knowledge, a statement necessarily contained in all others, whether any particular speaker chooses to identify it or not. An axiom is a proposition that defeats its opponents by the fact that they have to accept it and use it in the process of any attempt to deny it.
In other words, scripture as an axiom is not conceptually irreducible.
Originally posted by EnochWasRight
From Wikipedia: An axiom, or postulate, is a premise or starting point of reasoning.
My premise is not founded on a pretext. It's founded on a context found in the Bible. When we use this foundation, the contradiction and paradox below is resolved.
An axiom, or postulate, is a premise or starting point of reasoning. As classically conceived, an axiom is a premise so evident as to be accepted as true without controversy
Originally posted by Philodemus
Right. That's my point. Why should we use the Bible?
Originally posted by EnochWasRight
Why do we need the Bible?
Apart from a secondary witness to confirm your inference from the evidence, you cannot know that the reflection you observe has a mirror.
Originally posted by EnochWasRight
God can claim the invariable symmetry of physics.
and ambiguity based on stolen concept;
God is one and his word is one invariable truth. That word is not simply the Bible and it is not found in a creed or ideology. The Word itself are the letters of the tree of life that we use to then reflect the shadows.
a viciously circular argument. sandwiched by:
No other book claims to be written by the hand of man and the mind of God.
As soon as anyone here can produce this level of probability, then this is a proof that we have the source of the word that claims to be the source of the letters of the tree of life (DNA), of which, we would not know to name the tree of life apart from the letters and words we are given.
Originally posted by Philodemus
What is our best image? I see you listed "invariable". What other descriptors can you present?
Also, at the end there you seem to be talking about the divine sense. Can you explain yourself?
Originally posted by EnochWasRight
reply to post by Philodemus
Living in a space that is never in the same state twice does not a firm foundation make. We are traveling and have never been in the same place in space twice. The sun moves. 200+ million years to revolve around a moving core. No piece of matter in the universe has ever been in the same state twice and our best understanding is that we are in a hologram. I think the safe bet is to look for the Creator's signature on the creation.
Originally posted by EnochWasRight
The order starts by knowing that fact exists, but faith is all we have to infer the truth. Apart from help, we are lost.
Which is now an admission on your part that you do not in fact take your Bible literally. Subsequently, if it is figurative we must rely on the fallible interpretation of man. Which gets us now where. You must then resort to "sensus divinitatis". I'm glad that's not my problem.
Originally posted by EnochWasRight
My presupposition is that Evolution is a result and not a cause.
Science clearly implies that there is no cause. They say that Evolution is a cause.
which is, may I say, unintelligible even to a philosophy major.
Of course, collapsing wave function must have consciousness, just as letters must have a medium and catalyst to occupy form. Letters are of little use if there is no meaning under the hood of the hidden value. There must always be three in nature. One brings the other two into balance as value.
Presuppositions can be self-evident. If you have verification that your intuition is correct, then we have an enigma. Who wrote the Aleph Bet? DNA could not have written itself in this universe.
And again, you do not address them in the open were they can be examined. In addition, I address your performative inconsistencies, which you ignored.
Originally posted by Philodemus
That is the basis from which I work. What is the basis from which you work? You've mentioned several ways of knowing the reality in which we find ourselves; from some vague mention of scripture being axiomatic, to knowledge being programmed into our DNA, to some sort of undefined sixth sense which we use to perceive the supernatural, even an implicit affirmation that conscious knows itself without any reference to things outside of it (that consciousness is enough to inform consciousness). I would like to know what your basic concepts are in plain English. I want to know on what do you found your metaphysics and on what do you base your epistemology. Your op was interesting, but there is a vast assortment of assumptions that you cannot expect people to swallow unless you drop some of the cryptic new-age prophetic jargon and say what you mean.
Originally posted by EnochWasRight
Yet, the highest axioms we possess are in the Bible.
[The Bible] is the highest axiom we have and the proof is where it originates.
An axiom, or postulate, is a premise or starting point of reasoning. As classically conceived, an axiom is a premise so evident as to be accepted as true without controversy
a. A challenge to produce an argument against metaphor
b. "Proof" by default (argument ad ignorantiam)
c. Passing the burden of proof to the person who is NOT making the claim