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Nor did I suggest we do.

Not my logic. If you refer to my first post in this thread, you can probably guess my stance on it. Don't try to put words in my mouth just because I'm giving examples of an explanation from a certain point of view.

But your examples are childish and irrational so I just had to point it out.

Also you have no shred of proof that we actually have free will.

If we can't even choose what we will have for lunch, then why do you think that we have free will?

"But no such person exists so it's pointless to speculate about them in this way."

Of course they exist. Just look at astronauts or pilots for example. Astronauts must be extremely resilient and healthy because they must deal with the harsh environment of space and they also don't get to eat and sleep much when they are on a space mission.

The same goes with airline pilots. Some airline pilots work extremely hard. Being an airline pilot is not an easy job either. That's because they need to have good concentration, good alertness and some good skills to deal with difficult situations which can occur in the flight.

If they even make one mistake, they risk the lives of anyone in the airplane (including their own of course), such as what happened to Air France Flight 447 which crushed in the Atlantic ocean, killing everyone onboard the aircraft.

The same goes with bus drivers. Some bus drivers are required to drive extremely long distances every day and they must be healthy and feel well if they must be able do it.

Wikipedia tends to complicate things and after reading a lot of articles on Wikipedia I became totally confused.

So could you please tell me the difference between physics, astronomy and cosmology?

Also what is the difference between astronomy, astrophysics and physical cosmology?

It cannot only be genetics though.

If a person has superhuman abilities and by superhuman I mean like the Cyborgs you see in the Terminator franchise for example) like being strong, resilient, extremely energetic and doesn't need to eat and drink much to stay in top shape, then it cannot be just genetics which gives him these abilities.

Since it cannot be just genetics I think it must be something or someone else who gave him extraordinary abilities.

What I think is that maybe Satan or the Devil or some other very powerful being can interfere with the way our body works and give some people superhuman abilities.

Err - citation please.

 

The genotype - phenotype link is one of the most well supported causative links in science.

 

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/evo101/IIIA1Genotypevsphenotype.shtml

But in school they taught me that genetics is only 50% of who we are.

Look at Arnold Swartzeneger for example. He won first place in competitions with bodybuilders who would destroy him genetically like Sergio Oliva. Still it was his mind and thinking outside the box that let him win. Its more about working on yourself and reaching your potencial than just genetics.

Its also about realising what you have and using it smart.

Look at the movie "Gattaca" for example. It says it all.

Can you please provide your justification as to why it is not possible for genes to contribute to the cause of an individual's health, physique, endurance etc.?

That's because genetics is not all we are. Genetics probably make less than 50% of who we are.

Also the nature of consciousness cannot be explained by physiology alone. What I mean is that the way the human body functions cannot on its' own explain consciousness and personality and sentience.

This is where physics comes into the picture. And by physics I mean electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, quantum electrodynamics, quantum field theory, particle physics, special and general relativity, astrophysics, physical cosmology and quantum gravity.

The workings of the universe is still a big mystery but I don't think that consciousness is the product of the physical body (or of physiology) alone.

Nah I don't buy it.

I think that people invent all sorts of crazy theories to help them cope with the idea that one day we'll going to die. It's probably just a coping mechanism that people invent to help them cope with their death and the loss of loved ones.

But one thing is really certain though. One day we are really all going to die.

In Gamespot several posters brought up the idea that our reality could be a computer simulation.

Personally I think this idea is interesting and could maybe be related to general relativity, quantum gravity, loop qunatum gravity, superstring theory and M-theory.

I mean what the hell is consciousness and how do we even know that there is a world outside from what we sense and percieve. Are we even experiencing the whole of reality or only what our mind and it's limited capacity can make sense of?

http://www.gamespot.com/forums/topic/29381943/have-you-ever-wondered-if-reality-is-a-simulation

Sorry, you can't just chalk this up to simple electrons and organic molecule interactions. Well, I guess everything we experience comes down to chemical interactions, but when it comes to human body and our perceptions, the whole is definitely greater than the sum of its parts. Your fear comes down to two possibilities. The first is that you have been cut with a sharp object before, and it was a traumatizing experience. While we do not remember pain, the experience of being in pain heightens our senses and creates very detailed memories, so much so that the emotional aspect easily overrides logical reason when faced with similar circumstances.

The other possibility is that you have never suffered a serious injury before, and you're simply afraid of the unknown, which is a perfectly reasonable fear. Biochemically speaking, either a fear of the unknown or a fear associated with a previous injury causes a catecholamine release via the fight or flight response mechanism leading to anxiety, increased breathing, and increased heart rate.

Or maybe I am just a biochemical blob. This is why I am so sensitive to small injuries.

It could be that I am just a biochemical blob and that my physiology is just different somehow (or maybe even inferior physiology) than other people who are not "biochemical blobs" like me.

I don't like this idea but it could be true.

That classical answer doesn't sit well with me. It is very easy for a criminal just to say "Blame God, he/she/it was ultimately the cause of the crime I committed.". It can be argued that; we do, and have never messed anything up, and that God is the one who messed up his creations. So why is it not deemed reasonable, by those who are religious, to blame God for everything? Isn't it reasonable to judge God's decision to create us and this universe?

Finally someone rational in this forum. I think that it can be easily argued that it is God's fault that he made us so corrupt and so selfish. So God really has no one to blame but his own mistake for making us the way we are.

I respect your opinion, it has a good argument.

 

Although to answer the original posters question i believe genetics has everything to do with how physically strong and resilient someone is.

 

 

To your argument i would like to bring a few things to the table.

 

Evolution being the largest thing and the definition of life.

 

What is evolution really? The changes of a species for an increment of time? Or could their be something much larger to the picture than the dictionary implies.

 

Personally I think I'm a big highly evolved ball of matter.

 

What defines life, consciousness?

Are trees conscious, probably not. Is the sea squirt still alive after it eats its own brain?

 

Are we really that much more complicated than a rock?

No one knows what life really is.

Also as to us being more complicated than a rock, I think that actually we could be exactly like a rock. Just like a rock we are also made of atoms and molecules (that's because genes are just molecules) and just like a rock we are also governed by the laws of physics such as electromagnetism, thermodynamics, quantum mechanics, general relativity, particle physics and so on.

So maybe 'fundamental' physics like the physics of black holes, quantum mechanics, general relativity, quantum gravity, astroparticle physics and the study of dark matter and dark energy could shed more light on what life really is and how life is connected to the other objects in the universe.

As Joe Rogan puts it, life really is the most uber-bizarre and mysterious thing ever. I mean we don't even understand the universe and how it works and how life is related to the universe.

I think you should really see this video "

I think the classical answer is that he loves us but also gave us free will. And he can't retract that no matter how much we mess it up.

 

 

Free will is an illusion. You have no evidence that we actually have free will.

If a child is being raped by a stranger, I can intervene and stop it if I see it. Now following your logic, God just lets it happen and waits until after death to deal with it. So my rationality tells me that god is not just in any way. In other words God, if he even exists, is a monster.

If God exists, and He created the Universe, He must have done it for a reason.

 

The reason was probably this: the Universe provides Him with a source of entertainment. Like watching a soap-opera.

 

After all, suppose you were God. A huge, omnipotent Being. Wallowing in the glorious radiance of your own existence. This would be nice. But it'd get boring after a while.

The reason was probably this: the Universe provides Him with a source of entertainment. Like watching a soap-opera.

 

After all, suppose you were God. A huge, omnipotent Being. Wallowing in the glorious radiance of your own existence. This would be nice. But it'd get boring after a while.

 

But that's bullshit (no offense of course) because we have no evidence that any God exists except in the imagination of man.

"The Egg" story is of course not realistic at all.

I don't think that the universe is really so kind to us or that it so individual-centered. Evidence shows that the universe can be quite a cruel place sometimes and that's not always so human-centered. I mean the universe lets entire galaxies collide so I don't think it cares about us so much.

We tend to believe that everything in the universe is centered around humans but in the universe this isn't quite so. Maybe we aren't really so important. Or maybe God doesn't really exist after all and it's all just the universe or the multiverse or even human imagination doing its thing.

See for example

Well, there's a very logical solution to this, but I'm guessing your question assumes there is a God?

My question assumes there is a God. So what is really he logical solution to this assuming there is a God and that God is love?

There is no end to the questions but in the bottom line, the question is: If there is a God and like it's written, God is love then why does God allow all the suffering in the world to exist? Why did God allow the Holocaust to happen or the Rwandan genocide or the civil unrest in Syria which killed thousands of people? And why are there so many poor people in the world? Why are there disasters like Hurricanes, Tornados, earthquakes, droughts, heat waves, famines, diseases and disabilities, road accidents, all of which claim thousands of lives in each year.

My suspicion is that perhaps God is not so good (or maybe he is just corrupt) because if he was good then he would have done everything he can to stop all the suffering in the world. But the fact is, he doesn't do that.

Is it true that there is an infinite number of colors but this doesn't mean that the human eye can distinguish an infinite number of colors?

Just as there are infinitely many numbers between 380 and 740 - including all of the fractions, of course - so there are infinitely many wavelengths between 380 and 740 nanometers - the visible spectrum of light. That doesn't even count the different tints and shades obtained by mixing in white, black, etc. So, it can be argued that there is an infinite number of colors, if you look at it that way.

http://www.pburch.net/dyeing/dyeblog/C128544578/E1447734446/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_vision

Yes but this link doesn't answer all of my questions.

I mean how many different colors are there in reality? And how many colors can the human mind (or the brain whatever you want to call it) even recognize? Is it possible for us to "see" colors without the brain? Is there consciousness outside the brain? Is there life after death? What happens to consciousness after we die? What is life and what is death?

Also how do we know that there are fundamental particles? What is the shape and color of fundamental particles like photons, electrons, neutrinos and quarks, for example? What is the shape and color of a neutrino or a quark or an electron? Is the universe infinite and if so, how?

All these are questions that we just can't answer.

Joe Rogan is right. The universe is just bizzarely complicated and the more we think we understand reality, the more we discover that we actually know very very little. I mean the universe must be the most uber-bizarre and complicated thing ever.

Please you have to watch that video by Joe Rogan:

Nothing is just the absence of anything. It is an infinite void.

Could the universe have originated from nothing?

The answer to that would have to be no, for the reasons I stated below.

According to my definition of nothing it is impossible for anything to originate from it.

My definition of nothing is:

1) It must be timeless.

2) It must have always existed and could not have been created.

3) It is unchanging.

4) Nothing else can exist. By definition then nothing must be an infinite void. If nothing exists according to my definition then it would HAVE to be infinite.

5) It is unable to create anything.

I hope I have made this point absolutely clear, this is what having nothing would mean, absolutely nothing anywhere. The only conclusion I can draw from that is nothing cannot exist, because we do.

Could nothing have existed in the past? No. If it existed in the past, then some event must have taken place to end it. And an event would be impossible in nothing, so nothing could never have existed because we do, and as our universe now exists, nothing can never exist in the future either.

Why could an event not happen in nothing? Because apart from the obvious that there is nothing to happen, an event would create and require a moment in time. There can be no time in nothing as relativity describes time as just another dimension.

http://www.thekeyboard.org.uk/Where%20universe%20from.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_comes_from_nothing

Maybe neither exist at all and each are little more than temporary expressions of our own transient mental state.

No I think Satan exists and he is an evil being. I experienced him and he inflicted great pain and misery into my life. I believe that the devil (also called Satan) exists and that he can inflict great pain and suffering, like did to me.

Many atheists say that God is just evil or maybe he just doesn't exist because of the great injustices in the world.

Personally I think that if God exists then he must be evil. I mean why else would God ignore suffering, poverty and injustice?

Also the existience of hell would be the worst thing possible. No contest. Any god that would allow something like that to exist is evil. Immoral. Corrupt. Whichever adjective is needed to convey that whatever Deity is okay with an eternal hell no matter the person is a <profanity removed> of the highest order. Save me a seat if needed.

http://dwindlinginunbelief.blogspot.co.il/2007/01/how-many-has-god-killed-complete-list.html

"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist,, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully." - Richard Dawkins

Ancient aliens, as we envision them based on endless physical evidence found across the planet, does not actually refer to a group of extraterrestrial beings who came here once upon a time, but is more about those who create the consciousness hologram in which we experience and learn. Reality is consciousness created in the matrix of time to study emotions. As we search for the truth behind the illusion about who created humans and other sentient life forms, we look to those who came from the stars - ancient astronauts or creation gods.

http://www.crystalinks.com/consciousness.html

http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2013/02/ancient-astronaut-theory-fact-or-fiction-2569270.html

Actually we do have confirmation that aliens exist and are probably walking among us.

Actually modern humans could the offspring of aliens like in the Horror drama TV series X-Files:

Is it possible that Gods and Aliens really walked the Earth and that modern humans really are the descendants of these ancient gods and aliens?

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ancient_astronauts

Why can't gravity be an electromagnetic force or maybe something to do with the chemical interaction between atoms and molecules?

http://www.bigbangneverhappened.org/