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oldcelt
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Free will is an essential component of all I listed. Do higher animals have a soul? What, precisely is a soul?
Yes, we are highly advanced animals…just look at the similarities of our physical design.
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Yes, we are highly advanced animals…just look at the similarities of our physical design.
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tonyrey
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No response.How did self-awareness appear in the first place?
No response.What about free will? Why aren’t apes considered responsible for what they do?
No response.Do they have a soul? Do we have a soul? Or are we **just **advanced animals rather than persons?
How is free will derived from empathy, compassion, hatred, etc?Free will is an essential component of all I listed.
What, precisely is a soul?Do higher animals have a soul?
It is what makes us a person, the source of our power of insight, ability to distinguish good from evil and capacity for love.
Yes, we are highly advanced animals…just look at the similarities of our physical design.
- Do similarities of our **physical **design mean we are solely “naked apes”?
- What is the basis of** human **rights and the principles of liberty, equality and fraternity?
- Are persons fictions?
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mamlukman
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Last week’s Economist gave a two-page summary of the theories of “multiverses.” This goes back to the part of the discussion where people–including me–were arguing that God could simply foretell the whole range of implications and consequences of every freely made choice.
The Economist put it this way: the first type of multiverse is simply our universe multiplied. We can’t see the other universes, but they’re out there and follow the same laws of physics. Type 2 = different universes following different sets of physical laws. Type 3 = different versions of our own universe–every possible choice creates a different universe, slightly different from the one we live in (this is the multiverse related to the topic). So there are virtually an infinite number of universes.
The Economist put it this way: the first type of multiverse is simply our universe multiplied. We can’t see the other universes, but they’re out there and follow the same laws of physics. Type 2 = different universes following different sets of physical laws. Type 3 = different versions of our own universe–every possible choice creates a different universe, slightly different from the one we live in (this is the multiverse related to the topic). So there are virtually an infinite number of universes.
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Hunho
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The Economist is way behind; science fiction and comics have been playing with the multiverse and omniverse concepts for decades. I’m not aware of any theological work in that area, though. I wonder what God thinks of the idea? Are parallel universes just our (human) fiction or are they God’s reality?Last week’s Economist gave a two-page summary of the theories of “multiverses.” This goes back to the part of the discussion where people–including me–were arguing that God could simply foretell the whole range of implications and consequences of every freely made choice.
The Economist put it this way: the first type of multiverse is simply our universe multiplied. We can’t see the other universes, but they’re out there and follow the same laws of physics. Type 2 = different universes following different sets of physical laws. Type 3 = different versions of our own universe–every possible choice creates a different universe, slightly different from the one we live in (this is the multiverse related to the topic). So there are virtually an infinite number of universes.
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