Wed 16 Jun, 2010 11:51 am - Mahatma Gandhi
Gautama Buddha
Rabindranath Tagore
Jesus The christ
Karl Marx
Bertrand russell
Spinoza
Albert Einstein
Confucious
Ralph Emerson (view)
Sat 5 Jun, 2010 11:45 pm - [QUOTE=Reconstructo;173480]All of these are great. I think they all give humans an occasional glimpse at how intense their emotions and sensations can be. We don't lack for answers. Our... (view)
Sat 5 Jun, 2010 02:09 pm - [QUOTE=Reconstructo;173116]Thanks for your input. I find it interesting that you distinguish between spiritual and sensual perceptions. In what ways could you or would you further define these... (view)
Fri 4 Jun, 2010 08:25 am - [QUOTE=jeeprs;172919]
I think they evolve constantly, but I don't know if that is the same as saying they are simply 'ad hoc' expressions.
Surely science depends on the ability to... (view)
Fri 4 Jun, 2010 04:33 am - [QUOTE=jeeprs;172891]Sorry Jack I can't let that one go by either. This is a meaningless generalization. You can say that one or another argument is an ad hoc argument but I think it is... (view)
Fri 4 Jun, 2010 03:27 am - [QUOTE=jack;172467]
Now the Big bang hypothesis (and the empirical facts) says that reality was created 15 billion years ago (and these years are relative, and there is no time outside of space,... (view)
Fri 4 Jun, 2010 03:03 am - [QUOTE=Reconstructo;172852]Is science description or explanation? If you argue it's explanation, than what sort of explanation? Is explanation for natural science a description of causal... (view)
Fri 4 Jun, 2010 02:33 am - [QUOTE=ughaibu;172844][I]advocates the idea modern science could only have arisen in a Christian society[/I] -from your second link. On the other hand, there are serious contributors who are... (view)
Mon 31 May, 2010 11:40 pm - [QUOTE=kennethamy;171356]Well the principles of society (whatever they are) [I][B]describe[/B] [/I]what people do or believe, but ethical principles don't merely describe (or do not describe... (view)