A plant can sense the external world: sunflowers follow the sun, mimosas and Venus Flytraps react to touch. Plants do not have a brain.
A reader interested in having a meaningful conversation would understand that what was being discussed were higher forms of life, when the brain was mentioned. Actually, I would go further to say that there exists sentience in bacteria, in their interactions with one another and other elements in the environment that are to them nurturing or dangerous. Atoms, on the other hand, although they exist as unified forms, behaving in a determined manner acting upon and reacting to physical factors, do not have sentience in themselves. A pantheist might argue that their being is part of the totality of a sentient universe. In terms of life, the physical reality is required for the organizational soul of a living thing to express its sentience, its relational nature.Aloysium:
A plant can sense the external world: sunflowers follow the sun, mimosas and Venus Flytraps react to touch. Plants do not have a brain.
A brain is not required for sentience. You might want to rethink your approach here.
I broadcast the science that challenges the secular dogmatic belief. As you can see by my posts, you and other committed dogmatists have to face this.
Look back a few hundred posts and you can hear Penrose himself.
I don’t know the age of the earth and whether or not God waited for so long. I think 6,000 years is too young and 14B too old. They just knocked off 2B years though as they found the universe expansion rate to be accelerating.
We do? Well, that’s news to me, Buffalo. I don’t want to be rude as you seem like a nice guy, but outside these forum walls I’ll be ignoring you. It’s nice that you have a web site to keep you interested. And it’s nicely presented as well. You’ve done some good work there.Wozza:
I broadcast the science that challenges the secular dogmatic belief. As you can see by my posts, you and other committed dogmatists have to face this.
From the Royal Society ( what I have been posting for many years now - a must read) -
Hm. I’m guessing you know lots about creationism. But your knowledge of science in general seems to be a bit fuzzy. Regarding entropy for example. Closed and isolated systems?Wozza:
I don’t know the age of the earth and whether or not God waited for so long. I think 6,000 years is too young and 14B too old. They just knocked off 2B years though as they found the universe expansion rate to be accelerating.
As you can see from the web site in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth (time, space and matter). Exactly when that was we do not know.
I was referring to the age of the universe.
So I posed this question and your side passed.
The earth is an open system. That is all that is needed for the discussion of entropy and life on earth.
So what is your most accurate estimate of the age of the planet? One cannot discuss evolution without some common ground.Wozza:
I was referring to the age of the universe.
Buffalo, I just went back to the begining of the year to see what other interests you have. I like to check on what things people are discussing. Gives me a better feeling for the guy on the other side of the screen.Wozza:
So I posed this question and your side passed.
If the solar system is an open system, where are its boundaries, to where it becomes closed?
I have been posting here for many many years and on many different threads. You do not have to worry about me, but I appreciate it.
The age makes no difference as to the current thread. I believe in a younger earth, but I cannot narrow it down. Recently dino bones have been carbon dated to around 28,000 years bp, so at least that old.
OK. Thanks for your time. I have better things to do with mine.Wozza:
The age makes no difference as to the current thread. I believe in a younger earth, but I cannot narrow it down. Recently dino bones have been carbon dated to around 28,000 years bp, so at least that old.
You really don’t want to answer the question… I know why.
LOL. You don’t know, or don’t want to answer.
Providing you put a drop of rum in!! thanks