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  1. PolyHedral

    Timeframe of Jesus' death

    I'm looking for the approximate amount of time between Jesus stating that he knows he's going to die (I'm not absolutely sure he says this, but I think he does) and how long it takes him to actually get crucified. Also, if he ever states that he'll be resurrected, I'd like to know the...
  2. PolyHedral

    Is God a man behind the curtain?

    This is for people who believe in a God who delivers messages to people, in the vein of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Ba'hai. (Hinduism counts as well, from my understanding!) How do you know that any or all of those messages are correct, metaphysically? How do you know that the God behind...
  3. PolyHedral

    Self-verifying Holy Texts!

    I came up with the idea a few days ago on the chat, and I shall explain it in more detail here. Assuming that you are a sufficiently powerful God, then it is possible to construct a Holy Text that irrefutably, objectively verifies itself, with no later intervention needed on your part. To do...
  4. PolyHedral

    Infinity: An Explanation

    (The concept of infinity seems to be a popular one recently, so this post should hopefully clear up some misconceptions about its actual properties. To start with: it is a thing. We can deal with it. There's nothing mysterious about it.) The concept of infinity seems intuitive enough...
  5. PolyHedral

    Object-Orientated Philosophy

    Back in the mists of ancient history, Plato suggested that there was a realm of abstract ideas, which he called "Forms", and the Forms "existed" in some sense seperately from any real instance of the Form. That is, "appleness" is a Form, and it "exists" independently of any actual apple. (How...
  6. PolyHedral

    Hindu idea of "unchanging" self

    From what I understand, the Hindu belief system gets the idea that consciousness is a thing external from a person from the logic that what we normally think of as "I" changes as time goes on. It then goes on to say that the self is, actually, unchanging, and so what we normally think of as...
  7. PolyHedral

    James Cameron is a better God than Yahweh!

    Surprisingly, I am being entirely serious. Keep reading. It is very likely that you are among the 100 million people that paid to see Cameron's latest work, Avatar. On the off-chance you aren't, don't worry. I'm not here to discuss the plot; I want to discuss the world he built and the Na'vi...
  8. PolyHedral

    The Unbroken Thread

    hOLAGYmUQV0 YouTube - Symphony of Science - 'The Unbroken Thread' (ft. Attenborough, Goodall, Sagan) Personally, I think you spoil the beauty of the unbroken thread if you throw up your hands and say "God did it!" It's trivially simple for a being to throw together some blueprints of creatures...
  9. PolyHedral

    "We've tended in our cosmologies to make things familiar."

    Should we have? :D
  10. PolyHedral

    How can God be omniscient?

    How can God be omniscient when there are certain areas of knowledge which are provably impossible to know for certain? (Layman's version in order: some mathematical functions cannot be calculated in any circumstances, it is impossible to know both position and momentum infinitely precisely, and...
  11. PolyHedral

    Question about the second coming

    How specific is the Bible about the Second Coming? Does it say that Jesus, specifically, will return, or only a vague "Messiah"? (Or the Son of Man, or whatever title. I'm wanting to know if it specifies Jesus by name) Please support your answer. :D
  12. PolyHedral

    The universe exists because I can describe it

    Look at this. Obviously, it's an animation of a bouncing ball. However, imagine for the moment the ball can think, and has a memory. It would probably realize that it's position changes as time goes on, and, if it thought about it a bit more, it might even try and describe its movement...
  13. PolyHedral

    God does not judge

    First, have a little bit of background, so you can see where this argument is coming from. I am a computer programmer, and have become quite skilled at this art. (Yes, it is an art, for all but trivial designs.) However, a large part of programming is not actually writing the program, but...
  14. PolyHedral

    There is no Watch-maker

    Because watches evolve, if you set them up right. mcAq9bmCeR0
  15. PolyHedral

    I have found a most wonderous image of God!

    And I only have to make two assumptions for it. Count them: 1) Humans do not get themselves killed before developing both a) post-human intelligences, and b) molecule-assembling nanomachines, and that 2) Faster-than-light transportation, on nanometer or larger scale, is somehow possible. The...
  16. PolyHedral

    God, in His infinite wisdom, has made a mistake

    The Earth has finite resources available on it. This leads to what most of us see as inevitable: when there is not enough of a resource to go around, usually food or shelter, fights break out, people usually get hurt, and someone is left deprived. Even worse, this encourages the attitude that...
  17. PolyHedral

    How do you distinguish...

    the Abrahamic God from a sufficiently advanced alien? What question can you ask that only God can answer? What demonstration can only God perform? EDIT: Assume that the alien has access to an arbitrarily large amount of resources, and all conceivable technology, (apart from stuff that...
  18. PolyHedral

    I look on the Emperor

    And I see what he is wearing. But that is not what interests me. What interests me is the fact that almost nobody else agrees with me, or each other, about what he is wearing. Some people are even saying that the Emperor's clothes are so magnificent, they encompass all possible outfits at once...
  19. PolyHedral

    The Machine

    Imagine you have a machine. It is a very small machine, about the size of a fridge. However, it can do something very interesting: It can build any design that will fit it in it, and it is precise down to the atomic level. It will even build its own parts. (Though some assembly is required.) The...
  20. PolyHedral

    sandy, you asked for it... (nature of Hell)

    (Split from "The Design of Torture", here) Voila. Now that there is a new thread, I'd really like to know what you think.
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