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To: Solon who wrote (45869)	1/31/2014 1:18:26 AM
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Craig certainly a crackpot, but did absolutely nothing to dispel the methodological naturalism that operates in science, it is just an approach which rejects the idea of intentional spirit/mind & simply a pure way of aquiring knowledge. Watching him apply his selective logic is like watching an old cow having a hard birth with extended involuntary contractions that ends up pushing the uterus out of the body in a twisted bloody mess! But its nice to see him forray into the great pansychism of universal mind & cosmic Buddha cosciousness! Now perhaps he will assent to animals having spirits, having sentience too and go out & join a hippe commune? If the universe has a purpose intent, perhaps that could entirely be summed up by the first hydrogen atoms forming, that primordial first unit of the past is prologue for all else to follow. There is certainly something magical about the entire affair, but if there is an intentional mind behind all things, it certainly took a sweet long time till it produced us. It could be that it just is the nature of the Universe to produce conscious self aware beings, just a nascent property of the potential of this tendency to self organize which leads to emergent complexities on darling little green worlds like ours.

To: Solon who wrote (45869)	1/31/2014 1:22:26 AM
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The trouble with Craig's segue into this one neurosurgeon's assumed experience of the afterlife while in coma, neglects to mention all those 1000's of rest homes finding millions of the very elderly on the path to death that utterly lose all of their sentience & deterioration of faculties before the end comes. Perhaps before Craig expounds more on a unicorn's life after death, he should spend a little more real time in hospital death wards & homes for the elderly and see what really happens on regular basis.

To: Solon who wrote (45869)	1/31/2014 1:38:18 AM
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There's one truth to which all philosophers, scientists & idealists have no choice to agree Gods or not, its only as long as the Sun keeps shining will we retain the ability to defy entropy, no Sun, no life. Here's probably the one discussion that brings all the various philosophical forms into play, " panpsychism or panprotopsychism its all there, pro & con, interesting that it comes full circle. en.wikipedia.org In philosophy, panpsychism* is the view that mind or soul (Greek:* ????) is a universal feature of all things, and the primordial feature from which all others are derived. The panpsychist sees him or herself as a mind in a world of minds. Panpsychism is one of the oldest philosophical theories, and can be ascribed to philosophers like Thales, Plato, Spinoza, Leibniz and William James. Panpsychism can also be seen in eastern philosophies such as Vedanta and Mahayana Buddhism. During the 19th century, Panpsychism was the default theory in philosophy of mind, but it saw a decline during the middle years of the 20th century with the rise of logical positivism. [1] The recent interest in the hard problem of consciousness has once again made panpsychism a mainstream theory. Illustration of the Neoplatonic concept of the World Soul emanating from The Absolute