Re: Animated Series

In reply to "someone37" who wrote the following:

Hi,
 
I have just managed to finish making a 9 part animated series, which discusses
religious issues as well as discussing more philosophical and science related
issues.
 
And the reason I think it is relevant to this group, is that an option that
might not be so often explored is that while God exists, there may be issues
with more traditional understandings. And the philosophical support for a
belief
in God, can help shape whether evolution ought to be thought of as by design
rather than random.
 
Here's the link for the video series:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGlmuzlMofn040paBFUSSNtPsOnusw4Bj
 
I'd start at the beginning, but some might rather just skip to number 4.
Obviously the series is quite long, but I'd be surprised if people didn't
learn
anything in each of the videos 2-6.
 
[by the way the "Moderation and Posting to Talk.Origins" link seems to be
broken
on the talk.origins.org welcome page.]
 
 
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I'll give an example of an argument which is featured in video 4. Belief, and
how it can relate to this talk.origins group. It isn't one of the main
arguments, more just a side issue.

It is that while you (presumably) can tell from your experience that at least
part of reality experiences (you), and can therefore deduce that your experience
influences you, there isn't a way to compute whether reality is experienced or
not. The reason is that any computation can be done with an arrangement of NAND
gates (they are functionally complete) is because a claim that it could would be
tantamount to suggesting that NAND gates could only be arranged in a certain way
if the reality was one in which things experienced. But that would seem to be a
problem for an account which suggested that the chemicals arranged themselves
into some replicating cell which could evolve though mutation, and that we are
some resulting biological machine whose brain can compute that part of reality
experiences.


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