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Old 01-05-2007, 08:55 AM   #37
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Re: F... "Everything Happens for a Reason"

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Originally Posted by cpayne5 View Post
No. You're not understanding what I'm saying, yet.

All of this is a logical IFF, btw, dependent upon the existence of no God/Creator.

If we are nothing more than physical beings composed of physical matter, then we are nothing more. We cannot rewrite anything. We cannot learn anything. We do not have a free will. We cannot predict. We can do nothing on our own. We are simply compositions of matter and the resulting actions or reactions of said matter. Nothing more.

If everything is guided by physics and the properties of every building block to the universe is constant, then there is one and only one course of action all matter can take. Everything is dependent upon everything else (because everything influences everything, according to physics, correct?). There are no forks in the road. None. Zip. Zilch. Nada.

Disclaimer - Again, I do not believe this. I'm just saying that if our world (not only Earth, but WORLD) is nothing more than a physical world, then this is how I believe it would be governed.
I don't understand why we couldn't rewrite things? Please explain that to me. If EVERYTHING is governed by physics and mathematical equations, why couldn't we get to a point where we COMPLETELY understand that mathematical equation?

Wouldn't that be the natural course of action? After all, we're doing research on physics and chemistry and medicine and genetics. We're learning more every day. Wouldn't the only course of action be that we try to figure everything out? And if everything is a mathematical equation, wouldn't we figure it all out eventually?

And once we did, couldn't we do what we wanted?

I get your logical premise: If everything is math, then there is only one answer. But I'm taking it a step further. If we figure out the mathematical equation, we could introduce variables to produce different results.
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