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  Church of Reality

  If they weren't sentient than they wouldn't be self-aware.  They would have no conception of past, future, and self.  They would be mindless.  To clarify, lots of animals have sentience.  I have heard that even bees might have sentience.  I personally value humans more than other Earth's other sentient beings because I am human and I rationalize that on average our intellectual lives have greater depth.

  The most dominant life-form is already not us.  It is bacteria.  No I don't believe bacterias have rights.

  Posted 09 Aug 08 in The Church Of LOTU

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  Can Christians Be Converted To Reason?

   When it's said that in infinite time, all possible things will eventually happen, does "possible" include things that violate fundamentals of physics? 

  No, but physics allows for some crazy stuff that is highly improbable.  However, as counter intuitive as it may sound, in calculus you can actually come up with finite answers to values of functions as the variables go to infinity.  As X goes to infinity, 1/X goes to 0.  1/1,1/2,1/4,1/8,1/10 etc.  Yeah time is heading toward infinity, but so is distance. The furtheraway one thing becomes from another thing, the less likely they will instantaneously converge by quantum chance.  As distance increases probability of convergence goes down.  I think distance has time beat by a wide margin in regards to the new big bang question.

  I was watching a doco about dark matter last night, and this particular scientist has come up with a theory that does away with dark matter, but it also breaks Newton's laws. His answer to that is that the laws break at values too big or too small (string theory). 

  The dark matter map constructed in 06 didn't rule out that a modified theory of gravity could be true but it nevertheless confirmed that dark matter was necessary to explain some observations, or so said the project head.

  As to what dark matter might be, my gut impulse that it is basically just matter that only interacts via gravity and the nuclear weak force.  This would explain why it doesn't form into celestial objects:  it has no friction to subdue conservation of momentum.

  Posted 27 Jul 08 in The Church Of LOTU

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  First meeting of LOTU, June 28, Brisbane

   

  This is the first church that I have ever encountered that makes it mandatory to have a Facebook account to find out the location of the meetings.

  Facebook, or an email address and amiable identity.

  Posted 22 Jun 08 in The Church Of LOTU