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Actually it is quite readable as you said. But for me, in order to really appreciate what you said, I would need to have some background knowledge of things like how Godel Incompleteness can lead to "unpredictability and complexity of strong emergent behaviour". I also am not able to...

You're welcome. I wanted to read your paper too, even though it is way over my head.

I googled for the link. Here it is: http://vixra.org/pdf/1101.0044v1.pdf

Hi Amergin, Based on your view of "God", how do you regard sentience? Is it something that emerges from matter? Or do you regard sentience as distinct from matter? Or that there is something even more basic than sentience and matter, from which both sentience and matter arise?

In Buddhism, there is no such problem as there is no belief in a permanent unchanging soul nor is there a belief in an almighty creator god. All that we experienced with our senses, are causality-based. "Soul" is merely a label by people in general on a causal-chain. "God" is merely a label...

I am quite surprised to see your trend of thought because this is similar to certain school of thoughts in Buddhism.

So man defines God and decides what he can and cannot will.

Contradiction in terms only if you define God as good. Philosophically however, there is no reason why God can't be defined as evil.

If anyone who declares absolutely that a good God does not exist, is intellectually dishonest, then similarly anyone who declares absolutely that an evil God does not exist, is intellectually dishonest.

Scientists glimpse universe before the Big Bang "...The discovery doesn't suggest that there wasn't a Big Bang - rather, it supports the idea that there could have been many of them..." and so the debate continues.

Study could mean greater anticipated global warming "Global climate models disagree widely in the magnitude of the warming we can expect with increasing carbon dioxide. This is mainly because the models represent clouds differently. A new modeling approach successfully simulates the observed...

You may wish to check out this: http://www.interfaith.org/forum/reincarnation-13236-2.html#post234632

Eclectic only if the pieces from different faith traditions fit together without internal contradictions. But, one tends to invest a lot of emotions into one's beliefs, and that makes it hard for one to detect logical holes in one's beliefs.

Confused. (My apologies if this offends.) Try asking yourself what are the fundamental beliefs in each of the faith traditions and see if they agree. You will find that that will be contradictions that you either have to live with or resolve in your own way, unfortunately.

Drought may threaten much of globe within decades "...warming temperatures associated with climate change will likely create increasingly dry conditions across much of the globe in the next 30 years, possibly reaching a scale in some regions by the end of the century that has rarely, if ever...

Carbon dioxide controls Earth's temperature "Various atmospheric components differ in their contributions to the greenhouse effect, some through feedbacks and some through forcings. Without carbon dioxide and other non-condensing greenhouse gases, water vapor and clouds would be unable to...

Nick, Intrepid, perhaps you should find out for yourself what the Buddha himself actually said.

This is not the orthodox Buddhist conclusion. The orthodox Buddhist conclusion is to remain silent as nirvana/enlightenment is not accessible via language. It is very clear in both the Pali suttas and the Mahayana sutras that words like existent, not existent, both existent and non-existent...

I read somewhere that it was due to the process of taking birth that caused the loss of memory and not because "they are no longer THAT particular person." However, through meditation training, it is possible to recollect past lives.

Buddhism teaches that there is a process of transmigration from one existence (or life) to another existence (or life), but there is no unchanging individual (or soul). This is consistent with the teaching on impermanence - that a thing changes from moment to moment. So each individual is a...