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Name:	Shibl Mourad    E-Mail:
City:	Montreal, Quebec Canada
Comment:	15   Tuesday April 29, 2008 - 00:15am   Hi Paul, In "Against the Idea that Religious Belief is Needed to Have Ethics" you deconstruct the question "how atheists can have ethics" to show that it includes many fallacies. I propose a framing of ethics that can resist your deconstruction :) One of the big problems of society is demonstrated by the Prisoner's Dilemma. In some cases rational actions of individuals leads to inferior results than irrational actions. In other words it is in the interest of all of us if we acted irrationally in certain specific ways. These irrational-but-useful codes of behavior are what we call ethics. Note that the content of the code depends of the conditions of the environment and the objectives of individuals. So if individuals value the taste of Caviar then an ethical code would be not to fish for young Sturgeon. How can a society achieve this irrational behaviour? Either by creating punishment for it, but this require a level of organization and has a high cost. Or by creating irrational beliefs that are transmitted across generations that make a rational evaluation of the situation when combined with irrational beliefs lead to the desired conduct. (I do not want to stricken by thunder hence I do not fish for young Sturgeon) So now I can ask the question again: How can a society without irrational beliefs and the resources for law enforcement escape the Tragedy of the Commons?
Name:	Shibl Mourad    E-Mail:
City:	montreal, quebec canada
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Comment:	14   Monday April 28, 2008 - 07:09pm   In your article "Can God Exist Outside Space-Time?" you suggest that since causality exists in time we can not say that God caused the Universe to exist if he is outside Space-Time. One scenario where this would be possible is if God exists in another universe that has its own space-time. In that universe he could have created our Universe including our Space-Time.
Name:	Vladimir
Comment:	13   Thursday June 14, 2007 - 01:04am   "The claims simultaneously give God huge powers that transcend logic while removing him to the realm of fiction, or at best the realm of unsupported hypothesis" What if God is so powerful that His power would not be diminished by existing only as a hypothesis and not in reality?
Name:	Alex Przybyl    E-Mail:
City:	hamburg, NY united states
Via:	search engine
Comment:	12   Thursday October 26, 2006 - 05:06pm   well. . . why must god be above logic? A claim like that truely is ilogical... god didnt "creat" logic. . logic exists because god exists. Logic is an eternal truth that can't be given a start and end point. (just like god (eternal)) to say that god is above logic is like saying that a human has full control over their DNA. DNA is an unchangable part of a human...if the dna is changed then a different human is created. Just as if god were to change logic he would no longer be god. he would be something else that we as humans could not relate to due to our dependance on one god with one standard for logic. therefor god is not above logic. But instead his existance is prooved by logic.
Name:	Nat Napoletano    E-Mail:
Company:	Lockheed Martin
City:	Akron, OH USA
Comment:	11   Friday October 13, 2006 - 05:11pm   Hi Paul, Nice summary of the state of epistemology. Thank you for all of your hard work and generosity. -Nat
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Comment:	10   Thursday May 11, 2006 - 01:21pm   Hi there, interesting site. Is this what you are suggestion with your evolution thingie? Let A be an alphabet of instructions. Let E be a set of fitness functions. Let B be an alphabet of machine instructions for a virtual machine. Let a be an element in A, and b an element in B. Let F be a bijective map from A to B. b = F(A) = xi*a (mod /A/), where xi is random number. 1. To generate a compiler machine, generate a set X of random numbers xi...xn where n equals the cardinality of A. Do this any times. 2. For each compiler machine, change a random xi to a random number. 3.1. Select a random e from E. 3.2. Generate a set S of random strings from the alphabet A. 3.3. For each string in S, copy x times and change a random element in each string. This create a new set Z. 3.4. do for each string z in Z, for each element c in z. F(c)i. This generates a set of output strings with the alphabet B of the same length as the input strings. Run output string on the virtual machine, and run result through the fitness function e. etc...
Name:	zak³ady bukmacherskie    E-Mail:
Comment:	09   Wednesday September 7, 2005 - 11:55am   Very interesting site :)
Name:	mike (aintbelieving)    E-Mail:
Company:	Free Thinkers Association
Club:	Free Thinkers
Via:	hari told me
Comment:	08   Thursday June 30, 2005 - 03:15am   good reading paul! i hope you will consider writting for Free Thinkers Association. we are not ready to launch as you will see. i am still 'collecting' content. i hope you will give me your honest opinion(s). thanks
Name:	Flug Düsseldorf    E-Mail:
City:	Düsseldorf
Comment:	07   Friday June 10, 2005 - 04:44pm   Thanks
Name:	Steam Engine
Comment:	06   Sunday May 15, 2005 - 07:02am   Super Site:-)
Name:	Letras de Musicas
Comment:	05   Sunday May 8, 2005 - 05:23am   Esse site é demais, parabéns a todos vocês!
Name:	Phylos Qin    E-Mail:
Comment:	04   Friday March 18, 2005 - 03:01pm   Wow, what a fantastic site!!!
Name:	Artillo    E-Mail:
City:	DE USA
Via:	Second Life Forums
Comment:	03   Friday March 18, 2005 - 03:42am   Wow glad I dropped by this site! Many useful resources! Thanks! Artillo
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Comment:	02   Thursday March 10, 2005 - 00:28am   You never cease to astound me by your intelligence. And you're a swell cat, too. Miss talking to you. Love, Wednesday
Name:	Tim Mousel
Comment:	01   Monday March 7, 2005 - 05:33am   Great website!

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