They are both made out of carbon atoms but they clearly have a real distinction and are not identical in the nature they express. One has the essence of a diamond and one has the essence of coal.Both diamonds and coal are made of carbon atoms. Do they have the same essence or different essences.
There’s no 4.5 billion years, ‘Time’ is an experience by consciousness and an earth year is a reference by a conscious observer on earth.The earth is still 4.5 billion years old and non-avian dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago.
That’s a very relativistic statement. I suggest studying Thomistic Metaphysics.There’s no 4.5 billion years, ‘Time’ is an experience by consciousness and an earth year is a reference by a conscious observer on earth.
That sounds like your own doctrine. The Magisterium of the Catholic Church has developed and refined its doctrines across 21 centuries and hundreds of millions have subscribed to them at some level. While all humans on earth enjoy a certain degree of freedom and autonomy, we don’t get to create our own truth.The closest each of us has to a creator is our own previous lives and the accumulated karma from those lives
Correct, we define what time is and time doesn’t define us.That’s a very relativistic statement. I suggest studying Thomistic Metaphysics.
New thread needed. In brief:What is the essence of those objects? Are they essentially firewood? Are they essentially holy images? Or are humans merely projecting their own internal ideas onto those external objects?
He said: If a genetic glitch happens to give one animal a slightly thicker coat and it gets warmer then he’s at a disadvantageYou were disputing it. Freddy was discussing small microevolutionary changes in animals’ coats. You said: “Nothing like that is happening now in the real world.” I pointed out that you were wrong, with an obvious example.
I am happy that you recognise your error.
So, compression and heat can change Essences, since compression and heat can change carbon-as-coal to carbon-as-diamond, hence changing its Essence. How can Accidents, such as compression and heat change an Essence?They are both made out of carbon atoms but they clearly have a real distinction and are not identical in the nature they express. One has the essence of a diamond and one has the essence of coal.
It is not. It is standard Buddhist doctrine and very similar to Hindu ideas on Karma as well. Those ideas have been developed in India for longer than the Catholic Church has been developing its ideas.That sounds like your own doctrine.
You do not perceive directly. Light reflects off an object. The light enters your eye and is converted into electrical nerve impulses. Those impulses arrive at your brain which matches the incoming pattern of electrical impulses to its set of stored patterns and assigns what you are seeing to the matching pattern: “tree”.I perceive it directly, just as I perceive directly the existence of all the physical objects that surround me.
New thread, please.You do not perceive directly. Light reflects off an object. The light enters your eye and is converted into electrical nerve impulses. Those impulses arrive at your brain which matches the incoming pattern of electrical impulses to its set of stored patterns and assigns what you are seeing to the matching pattern: “tree”.
Environments are changing. While all organisms are fit, there is room for improvements in fitness to match the changing environment, as with my example of genetic resistance to COVID-19. That is a recent change to the environment and opens up a way for the human genome to be improved to match the new change.I dispute that ,because there is no animal living today that is not fit for its environment .
A new thread would be a good idea. It would be better if you asked your question on that new thread rather than on this one.New thread, please.
And how do you know that the “stored patterns” are really “trees”? How do you know the thing still exists when you aren’t looking at it?
These vestigial features have been debunked. You can do a search on it for more info.I’m curious as to how ID hypothesis explains vestigial organs, pseudo genes and goosebumps. Why do we have gills at a point in our fetal development? Why are babies sometimes born with a tail…a whale with a leg (interior or exterior), useless wisdom teeth often causing severe problems? How does ID explain these?
We are in agreement about the appendix?Can you explain how they’ve been debunked? I’m not talking about the appendix.
So lets look at some others.Of course, there were several organs that were originally thought to be vestigial until we learned otherwise. This includes the appendix.