He's not a human, why would he conform to our trends and habits. That doesn't even make sense...
What proof do you have of this?
Because it is his god. Are you suggesting you know more about stigs' god than he does?
In that regard, how would science explain Moses hearing a voice in a burning bush? Or a space monster giving Moses two stone tablets with commandments on them? Or, perhaps more relevant, how does science explain the mass delusion of billions of people who believe they have experienced and hear from God regularly?
When ancient scribes copied earlier books, they wrote notes on the margins of the page (marginal glosses) to correct their text—especially if a scribe accidentally omitted a word or line—and to comment about the text. When later scribes were copying the copy, they were sometimes uncertain if a note was intended to be included as part of the text. Over time, different regions evolved different versions, each with its own assemblage of omissions and additions.
Do you believe there are things in this world - not necessarily god, or to do with a particular belief system - that can't be explained through science? Anything at all?
In that regard, how would science explain Moses hearing a voice in a burning bush? Or a space monster giving Moses two stone tablets with commandments on them?
Graphic granite is a term used to describe a very distinctive igneous texture seen in some samples of granite. The texture comprises angular crystals of grey quartz (ranging in length from 1 to 12 mm) embedded within coarse-grained, light-grey to pink alkali feldspar. The size, shape and orientation of the quartz grains (in relation to each other) gives the outward appearance of cuneiform characters, which were used in the alphabets of several Mesopotamian cultures. The name "graphic granite" is derived from the Greek graphos, meaning "writing" (not because the rock is fond of excessive violence or sexual situations). The quartz crystals are actually rod-shaped, and the wedge pattern is best observed in cross-section.Contrary to outward appearances, graphic granite is not an example of a porphyritic texture. "Porphyritic" is a genetic term, implying that the individual minerals crystalized from the magma at different times and temperatures. In fact, graphic granite is only formed when alkali feldspar and quartz are crystallizing at the same time and at constant rates. These conditions describe a point where temperature and the bulk composition of the magma are in equilibrium; when these factors are plotted in a phase diagram, this point (the eutectic) is readily identifiable.Other terms used to describe graphic granite include: Hebrew stone, Hebraic pegmatite, corduroy rock and runite (from the Norse runes, which the wedges also resemble).
The detailed study of volatiles of Dictamnus gymnostylis Steven. (Dictamnus albus L., original polymorphic species) considered by many to be the Burning Bush of the Bible, was conducted. In addition to methyl chavicol (~15%), (E)-anethole (~7%) and psoralen (~7%), the presence of over 60% of 1-allyl-4- (3-methyl-2-butenyloxy) benzene (dictagymnin) was confirmed. It was shown that this chemical rather easily decomposes into chavicol and very flammable hydrocarbon 2-methyl-1,3-butadiene = isoprene (b.p. 34°C). The secretion of isoprene, which can be especially intense on hot windless days, leads to formation of the isoprene cloud that may inflame without any harm to the source plant.
Or, perhaps more relevant, how does science explain the mass delusion of billions of people who believe they have experienced and hear from God regularly?
Science doesn't even pretend to hold all the answers, and we are some way off from developing a grand unifying theory of everything. There is a higher chance, in my opinion, of Science achieving this than of God being proved.
Even if we achieve a GUTOE it still won't answer the subjective human experience.... Here, religion is a very real thing. As real as gravity to some. It provides an invaluable tool for large numbers of people to make some sense of their universe, and find a way to live in it. Science is about the objective universe. God isn't needed there.
How do you know he's not a human....a super-evolved human with a time machine? That's plausible.
It's plausible...but to assume he is and try and predict his behavior or personality based on that assumption would be rather unscientific.
Actually, no...that would be a good Scientific first step!
I lol'd tbh. Of course, that makes perfect sense. If there's no God then a talking burning bush and a space monster giving you tablets with rules on them are perfectly normal. No need to question anything at all there.
which is the very reason why we can predict human behavior.
my point is that these things dont happen that is why there is no need to question them - if they did happen then there would be a need to explain them, but nothing ever happens that needs god to explain.
False
why we can predict patterns that humans will likely follow under a set of circumstances.
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a Holy curiosity.""What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it? I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.""If one purges the Judaism of the Prophets and Christianity as Jesus Christ taught it of all subsequent additions, especially those of the priests, one is left with a teaching which is capable of curing all the social ills of humanity.It is the duty of every man of good will to strive steadfastly to make this teaching of pure humanity a living force, so far as he can.""As a child, I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene.Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot. No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.""All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.""One has a feeling that one has a kind of home in this timeless community of human beings that strive for truth. … I have always believed that Jesus meant by the Kingdom of God the small group scattered all through time of intellectually and ethically valuable people.""The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.""In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognise, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views. Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious.""I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research. Only those who realize the immense efforts and, above all, the devotion without which pioneer work in theoretical science cannot be achieved are able to grasp the strength of the emotion out of which alone such work, remote as it is from the immediate realities of life, can issue. "What a deep conviction of the rationality of the universe and what a yearning to understand, were it but a feeble reflection of the mind revealed in this world, Kepler and Newton must have had to enable them to spend years of solitary labor in disentangling the principles of celestial mechanics! Those whose acquaintance with scientific research is derived chiefly from its practical results easily develop a completely false notion of the mentality of the men who, surrounded by a skeptical world, have shown the way to kindred spirits scattered wide through the world and through the centuries.""Only one who has devoted his life to similar ends can have a vivid realization of what has inspired these men and given them the strength to remain true to their purpose in spite of countless failures. It is cosmic religious feeling that gives a man such strength.""He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilisation should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.""I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed empty to me. The trite objects of human efforts -- possessions, outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible.""Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.""Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.""The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.""The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate."
...YesI put a mouse at one end of a tube, and some cheese and the other end, i'd say he'll go for it.Its hardly prediction under set circumstances. Human behavior cannot be predicted and it is naive to think so.
Counselling, marketing, and education are all based on predicting behavior to some extent. Of course humans are variable and can never be predicted absolutely, but the relative success of each of the above areas demonstrates that, yes, humans do follow patterns and can be predicted with some accuracy.
What is different about human nature from 30 years ago?
here are some more quotes from Einstein; one of the greatest scientists that has lived in recent history (and arguably one of the greatest of all time).
In a manuscript he wrote in 1704 in which he describes his attempts to extract scientific information from the Bible, he estimated that the world would end no earlier than 2060. In predicting this he said, "This I mention not to assert when the time of the end shall be, but to put a stop to the rash conjectures of fanciful men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, and by doing so bring the sacred prophesies into discredit as often as their predictions fail."
Not much, more so the fact we have become better at going about it.
