tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26741618.post6416243182501751104..comments2024-02-28T02:22:20.886-08:00Comments on homunculus: Do you believe in miracles?Philip Ballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09986655706443117158noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26741618.post-48676508570995788392020-12-22T16:46:05.851-08:002020-12-22T16:46:05.851-08:00HERBAL DR EMU WHO PREPARE HERBAL MEDICINE TO CURE ...HERBAL DR EMU WHO PREPARE HERBAL MEDICINE TO CURE ALL KINDS OF DISEASES INCLUDING HERPES DISEASE. <br /> I have been battling this Herpes disease for almost 3 years now....I tried all possible means to get cure from my Herpes Disease but all to be in vain until i saw a post in a health forum about a herbal Dr Emu who prepare herbal medicine to cure all kind of diseases including Herpes Disease, at first i doubted if it was real but decided to give it a try...when i contact Dr Emu via his email (emutemple@gmail.com) write him and reply me explain how the process work so after ordering for the medicine I got it within 3/4 working days through DHL Delivery and I took it according to the way Dr Emu instructed, I was so happy after 2 week I took the medicine there was very big change in my health when I was done with the process I go for test, I found out I am negative...Herpes patients should also get in touch with this herbalist Dr Emu to get rid of these Herpes Virus forever his whatsapp number +2347012841542.Darlene Tregerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328404164927994387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26741618.post-14766410178937110972020-11-02T23:21:21.974-08:002020-11-02T23:21:21.974-08:00I'm someone who has lived a life seemingly in ...I'm someone who has lived a life seemingly in the background, I must say this final indignity I have suffered almost too much to endure. You see, I have been sickly and weak since the day I was born and doomed to go through all my life a weakling. I seemed to have always suffered from one illness or another and could never play with the other children as I so desperately wanted to. Mother always made such a big fuss over me, also, making the situation worse as the other boys teased me mercilessly after they saw it. I was browsing the internet searching on how i could be transformed into a powerful when i came across the email of a man named Lord Mark. who was a VAMPIRE so I told him that I has always dreamed of becoming a VAMPIRES, All i did was just to follow the procedure that i was been told, and i bet you that procedure I took change my entire life to something i ever desire, freedom, sickness free, pains free, fame, influence, connections and even more that i can. Thanks to Lord Mark. Do you want a life full of interesting things? Do you want to have power and influence over others? To be charming and desirable? To have wealth, health, and longevity? contact the vampires creed today via email: Vampirelord7878@gmail.comAlandrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05564958616469735697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26741618.post-88458387971696985752017-10-17T19:56:45.903-07:002017-10-17T19:56:45.903-07:00What is all this talk of miracle? HIs body demater...What is all this talk of miracle? HIs body dematerialized into its atomic parts, as did the body of the Buddhist Monk, Khenpo A-Cho in September, 1998. Called, rainbow body, hundreds of thousands of Buddhists have gracefully exited the planet this way. The image on the cloth is the result of artificial aging which, in turn, is the result of a change in the chemistry of the linen substrate as a result of atomic bombardment. Jesus and the Buddhists used the same mind training methods for dematerializing their bodies, although one must look to the Secret Gospel of Thomas to understand Jesus's teaching.<br /><br />Refer to www.jthomasdevins.com for details.The Quantum Christianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17870980506272840657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26741618.post-10144806079406077352017-08-21T23:31:34.030-07:002017-08-21T23:31:34.030-07:00شركة قمة الدقة للخدمات المنزلية
شركة صيانة مسابح ...<a href="https://qmm-eltmayz.com/" rel="nofollow"> شركة قمة الدقة للخدمات المنزلية</a><br /><a href="https://qmm-eltmayz.com/%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A9-%D8%B5%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A9-%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%AD-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%85-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%B1/" rel="nofollow"> شركة صيانة مسابح بالدمام</a><br /><a href="https://nile-company.org/%d8%b4%d8%b1%d9%83%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d9%86%d8%b8%d9%8a%d9%81-%d9%88%d8%b4%d9%81%d8%b7-%d8%a8%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%a8%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ae%d8%a8%d8%b1/" rel="nofollow"> شركة تنظيف بيارات بالدمام</a><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09299258084180232756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26741618.post-33238636192230081092017-07-30T19:57:08.761-07:002017-07-30T19:57:08.761-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09575533050107045206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26741618.post-71781123128549698862017-07-20T12:41:42.993-07:002017-07-20T12:41:42.993-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02537179631080635044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26741618.post-10426153615855939842017-05-31T03:33:51.795-07:002017-05-31T03:33:51.795-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26741618.post-77694169796141681722017-04-26T03:33:04.975-07:002017-04-26T03:33:04.975-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Cheap Umrah UShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00471477654222782697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26741618.post-59267871188581327232017-04-24T05:30:52.632-07:002017-04-24T05:30:52.632-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15420029938681020535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26741618.post-86234195685032630212017-04-23T02:39:36.797-07:002017-04-23T02:39:36.797-07:00احدث تقنيات تكنولوجيا الصيانة المستخدمة فقط من خلا...احدث تقنيات تكنولوجيا الصيانة المستخدمة فقط من خلال مركز <a href="http://egy.help/maintenance/%D8%B5%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A9-%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%89/" rel="nofollow">صيانة كريازى</a> للاجهزة الكهربائية احصل على افضل خدمات الصيانة المنزلية من خلال تواصلك مع فريق <a href="http://egy.help/maintenance/%D8%B5%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A9-%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%89/" rel="nofollow">خدمة عملاء صيانة كريازى</a> تواصل معنا الان لتحصل على اقوى العروض وافضل الخدمات <br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06382379743562351575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26741618.post-38545960867392003182017-04-23T01:53:02.513-07:002017-04-23T01:53:02.513-07:00تواصل مع خدمة عملاء مركز صيانة يونيفرسال للاجهزة ...تواصل مع خدمة عملاء مركز <a href="https://www.almyaa.com/Universal-Maintenance/" rel="nofollow">صيانة يونيفرسال</a> للاجهزة الكهربائية واحصل على اقوى الخصومات عند شراء او استبدال اى من قطع الغيار الاصلية من كافة انواع التوكيلات العالمية .. كما يمكنكم الحصول على صيانة دورية من المنزل مع افضل المهندسين المتخصصين فى صيانة جميع انواع الاجهزة الكهربائية فقط اتصل الان على <a href="https://www.almyaa.com/Universal-Maintenance/" rel="nofollow">مركز خدمة صيانة يونيفرسال</a> نصلك فى اسرع وقت وفى اى مكان <br /><br />صيانةhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11902685861591420619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26741618.post-86719440109191227262017-04-20T09:48:04.070-07:002017-04-20T09:48:04.070-07:00My position on miracles is David Hume's: "...My position on <a href="http://jayarava.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/of-miracles.html" rel="nofollow">miracles is David Hume's</a>: "...no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavours to establish..." Jayaravahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13783922534271559030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26741618.post-77214464403186248282017-04-01T03:29:18.863-07:002017-04-01T03:29:18.863-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15420029938681020535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26741618.post-49448285927950748522017-03-29T04:59:54.087-07:002017-03-29T04:59:54.087-07:00In a sense you are right, Philip - special relativ...In a sense you are right, Philip - special relativity is a tragic reality. But my question was about the miraculous "enough strangeness". Here is some elaboration:<br /><br />http://www.network54.com/Forum/304711/thread/1490702793/last-1490772630/ <br /> Complete Loss of Sanity in Einstein's Schizophrenic World?<br /><br />Pentcho ValevPentcho Valevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17402794850276749822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26741618.post-26250171319946877592017-03-29T03:34:17.326-07:002017-03-29T03:34:17.326-07:00Pentcho,
I believe that special relativity is not ...Pentcho,<br />I believe that special relativity is not a miracle.<br />Philip Ballhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09986655706443117158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26741618.post-41320955106953228112017-03-29T03:32:59.473-07:002017-03-29T03:32:59.473-07:00Hi Tristan,
Thanks for this.
1. I'll take a l...Hi Tristan,<br />Thanks for this. <br />1. I'll take a look. I take your point about your paper's intended scope, but it was hard to accept your assertion that history/science could in principle prove something this specific without some indication of how.<br />2. I agree that history should be seen as what historians do - I take the same line to avoid tedious arguments about what is science or art. That doesn't mean that one must accept the conclusions scientists or historians reach. Not least, these historians would need to have good grounds for arguing that the radiocarbon dates are wrong. Such arguments have been made, but I have yet to see a compelling case.<br />3. OK - but the philosophy of the approach is much the same, and I still contend that there is no meaningful calculus for it in a case like this.<br />4. You're right that we shouldn't presume to second-guess an omnipotent, omniscient being! All I can say is that, if a God wants me to be a believer, having given me the power of reason and presented me with such evidence or reason to believe as I see existing, his expectation makes no sense to me. That's even more true in the specific case of the Turin Shroud. Philip Ballhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09986655706443117158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26741618.post-28110252371916059052017-03-28T12:06:39.264-07:002017-03-28T12:06:39.264-07:00Thank you very much Philip, I have really enjoyed ...Thank you very much Philip, I have really enjoyed your lengthy comment. <br /><br />Just some thoughts:<br /><br />1) "Casabianca offers no line of argument that could link this artifact to the person of Christ". This was not the purpose of this article. In 2013, I offered an argument in The Heythrop Journal ("The Shroud of Turin: A Historiographical Approach").<br /> <br />https://www.academia.edu/8530930/The_Shroud_of_Turin_A_Historiographical_Approach<br /><br />2) On claims made by some historians that the Turin Shroud is Jesus's burial cloth, you write: "such claims are made; whether there are, or can be, adequate grounds for making them is another matter entirely."<br />Given that history is an “essentially contested concept”, one can argue that "history is what historians do". In a nutshell, their reasoning is simple and sound: the crucifixion of Jesus is complex and unique in recorded history. Thus, the hypothesis according to which the shroud is a brilliant forgery made by an unknown roman or paleo-Christian artist is more ad hoc than the Jesus hypothesis.<br />If the image was left “unintentionally” by another crucified man with a wound on his side and a crown on his head in an ancient linen cloth, your hypothesis is also clearly more complex than the Jesus hypothesis.<br /><br />3) "Casabianca suggests that it follows from “a historiographical approach (the ‘Minimal Facts Approach’)”, which I take to be some kind of Occam’s razor position."<br />This approach contains much more than a kind of Occam’s razor. It is based on commonly used historiographical criteria that include, in decreasing order of importance: plausibility, explanatory scope and power, ad hocness, and illumination. As you can see, in assessing different hypotheses, Occam’s razor is the most popular criterion, but clearly not the most important. Cf. my article published in the Heythrop Journal on that.<br /><br />4) On the suspension of laws of physics by an unknown entity. Well, it’s the old shaky Humean argument (cf. John Earman, Hume's Abject failure, OUP, 2000). It also reminds me this George Stoke’s sentence: “It may be that the event which we call a miracle was brought on not by a suspension of the laws in ordinary operation, but by super-addition of something not ordinarily in operation.” <br />At the end, it always depends on your freewill and your personal response. I don't think it’s a powerful argument to say: "if I were an omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent being with unlimited time and resources, I would have done things differently". Quite the contrary.<br />This mysterious and omniscient God maybe knows that, with more miracles, we would not have more believers. Who knows? ;)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10420965882456129844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26741618.post-52845756833119397032017-03-28T03:42:24.807-07:002017-03-28T03:42:24.807-07:00I am sure there are miracles you do believe in. Fo...I am sure there are miracles you do believe in. For instance:<br /><br />http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~djmorin/chap11.pdf <br /> David Morin, Introduction to Classical Mechanics With Problems and Solutions, Chapter 11, p. 14: "Twin A stays on the earth, while twin B flies quickly to a distant star and back. [...] For the entire outward and return parts of the trip, B does observe A's clock running slow, but enough strangeness occurs during the turning-around period to make A end up older. Note, however, that a discussion of acceleration is not required to quantitatively understand the paradox..."<br /><br />Do you believe in the "enough strangeness", Philip Ball?<br /><br />Pentcho ValevPentcho Valevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17402794850276749822noreply@blogger.com