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Author Topic:   Edge on ""WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IS TRUE EVEN THOUGH YOU CANNOT PROVE IT?"
NosyNed
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Message 1 of 3 (173809)
01-04-2005 3:54 PM


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(NOTE this is NOT the thread to comment on any of these)
This is the yearly edge question some of the responses are:
quote:
Life is ubiquitous throughout the universe. Life on our planet earth most likely is the result of a panspermic event (a notion popularized by the late Francis Crick).
Craig Ventnor
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I believe, but cannot yet prove, that acquiring a human language (an oral or sign language) is a necessary precondition for consciousness—in the strong sense of there being a subject, an I, a 'something it is like something to be.'
Daniel C Dennett
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As a Christian monotheist, I start with two unproven axioms:
1. There is a God.
2. It's not me (and it's also not you).
Together, these axioms imply my surest conviction: that some of my beliefs (and yours) contain error. We are, from dust to dust, finite and fallible. We have dignity but not deity.
David Myers
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I believe, but I cannot prove, that all life, all intelligence, all creativity and all 'design' anywhere in the universe, is the direct or indirect product of Darwinian natural selection. It follows that design comes late in the universe, after a period of Darwinian evolution. Design cannot precede evolution and therefore cannot underlie the universe.
Richard Dawkins
(added ventnors in by edit)
This message has been edited by NosyNed, 01-04-2005 16:46 AM

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01-04-2005 4:03 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by NosyNed
01-04-2005 3:54 PM


I think you managed to miss out the quote from Craig Ventnor.

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01-04-2005 4:44 PM


I firmly believe, although I cannot prove it, that no form of extraterrestrial life has intentionally initiated travel that has resulted in a visit to Earth by that life form.

  
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