Philosophical Issues With Darwin's Theory

 Philosophical problems with Darwin’s theory might be taken to mean generally that people don’t support the evolution paradigm. Some believe the Bible and Genesis especially are in opposition to evolution. I don’t see it that way having learned science and Christianity together from early youth.

So one might want to explain more fully to people why one can find everything natural- not created by humans, as created by God, in default. God, after all, has lots of time. All of eternity is a lot of time to create a Multiverse or Universe and set it working. If every last atom and quark was foreknown by God, and planned, that would include evolution too.

Really it's quite an interesting topic and the better one is informed of the Bible and of Cosmology the more interesting it becomes. God is a lot smarter than humans. It's good he left the Bible for a guide and sent His Son to the world to help out.

I wrote a lot of brief essays on the topic and published two books- free to download with those essays. They are here…

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/god-cosmology-and-nothingness-theory-and-theology-in-a-scientific-era-garrison-clifford-gibson/1122557877?ean=9781365539107

http://www.lulu.com/shop/garrison-clifford-gibson/creation-and-cosmos-the-literal-values-of-genesis/ebook/product-23246271.html

I have learned more and thought more about cosmology and creation since I wrote those. Maybe sometime I will add a third collection.

I have read the KJV more than a half century and believe God evolved the world, and the apocalypse occurred in the first century A.D. when Jerusalem was destroyed, Christians scattered and martyred, and the building of the Kingdom of God was then new for the passing generation of the old era. Some believe it wise to repeat the pre-tribulation philosophy and to believe their own interpretation of Genesis is infallible. 

 I would say that evolution theory is natural, and God created all natural things. Scientific atheists and some reactionary Christians are just wrong about things. Making a dialectical opposition of evolution and the Bible is wrong- it misleads many souls and government decisions.

A fine-tuned Multiverse is implicitly a little contradictory- every possible Universe that could exist does exist in some form is the theory. Each Universe should be fine-tuned for it to be what it is. That's nearly a principle of identity. The Universe has a built-in Occam's razor compelling it to lack a surfeit of alternative variables and constants. Yet God is spirit and the constants and variables of any given Universe aren't really germaine. They are downstream in a manner of speaking.

G.W.F. Hegel believed the Universe was the world spirit trying to realize itself through history (paraphrase of someone- I cannot recall). He thought the German state of his time was the highest evolution of the intelligence. Dialectical evolution loosely would have been the Universe trying to be and become interacting with itself. 

An analogy might be that the world-spirit began its material paradigm self-awareness program as a tiny seed at the big bang and evolved through interactive change into something larger and more pluralistic with sentience being the highest phase achieved within a government and society that was Germany. That was a practical way for a philosopher to get some approval from the Aristocrats of his nation, though I doubt that Hegel invented the theory just to kiss a of the most rich rulers.

Hegel was rightly called an idealist; all of this dialectical progress was working of Spirit. Hegel wrote a nice, smaller version of The Phenomenology of Mind titled- Realms of Absolute Spirit (in a version I read).

What if Ford and Tesla Merged?

Tesla has been great technically at innovation yet sometimes a little shaky on sales and production. Ford is going increasingly electric and trying to be more forward looking. It would seem like a reasonable opportunity for the two automakers to merge.

https://www.tesla.com/models

https://electrek.co/2019/07/25/tesla-plans-massive-production-battery-cells-delays-unveiling/

The advantage of using Ford showrooms to sell Tesla cars and Ford production experience to produce the all electric tech leading cars more efficiently is apparent enough on the surface at least. Ford could benefit from Tesla quality electric tech insight, and Elon Musk could work more on new innovations and his space x projects and leave much of the mechanics to Ford.

It might be useful for the advance of hypertubes if Tesla and Ford continued to work together to improve various design improvements, if anything were actually going to be built in the U.S.A. in the lifetime of the present generations, instead of being a concept set aside for a half century like the moon landings and Apollo program.

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/tesla-straubel-chief-technology-officer-leaves-q2-earnings/

https://corporate.ford.com/microsites/sustainability-report-2018-19/index.html

Some Context for 'America Love it or Leave it'

America Love it or Leave it'' was a common 1960s-70s era bumper sticker. Conservatives felt there were communists in the anti-Vietnam war movement back then. There were some communist-Trotskiites associated with the anti-war movement that had an origin in the end of the Stalin era in the Soviet Union and the decision of following Soviet leaders to resume a global policy of support for communist insurgent movements everywhere possible. Stalin before had supported just a 'communism in one country' policy (the Soviet Union). The North Vietnamese Army were heavily subsidized by the post-Stalin Soviet Union.

image credit US Army

Because the communists were atheists, some Baptist church pastors were especially inclined to support the pro-capitalist side of the United States, of which they were citizens anyway. It was easy to have a fairly consistent patriotic, pro-American policy in that era. Today, alternatively, shamefully, the left have tried to associate pro-America with racism, disingenuously. Today, not only are globalism socialism and communism a recrudescent threat, some U.S. politicians appear to be too happy to be associated with a benevolent attitude to foreign terrorist organizations.

A democracy is a nation of laws- civil laws, and sovereignty of ordinary people. Many today seem to take democracy for granted and support bum-rushing of the borders illegally with race as a justification. Their work reinforces globalist concentration of wealth and elite imperialists, corporatists, plutocrats and communists. Even (U.S.) federal courts have caseload backlogs that are not helped with expenses that need go to adjudicating legal matters of millions of illegal aliens. Federal courts are required for inter-state dispute resolution, and that includes civil matters. So good luck in trying to get a court date to resolve civil affairs for compensation from convicted interstate criminals.  

Democrat Investigation of Trump Proved Vladimir Putin Really Won 2016 Election (satire)

The monumental, precedent shattering Mueller Investigation Intifada of the Democrat Party and allied mainstream media has come to an end; at least phase one. President Trump has failed to prove his innocence once more, thus he is by default and Democrat demand, guilty, of letting Russia win the 2016 election.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-07-24/mueller-hearings-donald-trump-obstruction

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-says-mueller-did-horrible-job-at-hearings-but-had-nothing-to-work-with

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/24/pelosi-nadler-rebuff-impeachment-mueller-hearing-1432925

Before Democrats made the point plain with three years of public education reform, the nation had forgotten the legal principal that everyone is guilty until proven innocent. Some future Democrat Congress may overcome onerous rules of habeas corpus that prevent locking up Republicans on sound moral principals for beating Democrats in elections too often.

President Trump has been a puppet of Russian marionette Vladimir Putin and hops to every whim of Moscow's bagpipers and different drummers. Democrats; thanks to their interminable conviction and actions to prove that Vladimir Putin the Elector is the real leader of America and President Trump just a figurehead representing Russian control of Wall Street and all red things in the White House and across the heartland brought America to focus on election stuff for three years instead of other stuff. Who knew Russia ruled the rubes so easily? 

https://time.com/5634675/trump-turning-point-russia-golf/

Democrats have shown the way that Russia will again win the White House and after 2021's January inauguration force the American East coast to drown in Sky and Stolichnaya vodka on the rocks in celebration.

Luckily for the nation, Democrats can be counted on to inform the nation of what's what when it counts- year after year.

Google and Google Blogspot is Too Large for Easy Takeover by Corporate Censors

Of the numerous web sites that were also social media locations with free writing venues I have posted at, Google blog-spot is the sole survivor. Virtually any place I wrote and posted sometimes politically contentious material eventually was closed down(or I was banned).* Even Google blogspot originally was Geocities that Google bought. Geocities before it was taken over by Geocities was also named something else. Corporatism and the Democratic left cadre infiltrating internet sites greedily marginalize or close down outlets for free speech they believe don't support their proprietary interests. So I am concerned about A.G. Barr's anti-trust targeting of Google, Facebook and not so much about Amazon since I prefer to use e-bay for looking for used stuff.

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/barr-facebook-google-amazon-antitrust-probe

Corporatism has taken over the democracy of the United States. Its managers are simply intolerant of non-corporate agenda writing on its venues. They find some pretext to marginalize, ban or otherwise censor free speech consistently. It is true that Google is very large, however without some kind of public Internet writing forum that last through political vicissitudes and the capacity of the 1% to buy out, take over and shut down web-sites where antipathetic free speech occurs, Google is about it. In the case of free speech Google's capitalization is the best factor for independent writing remaining.

* If you look at my archive history you would see the 400% increase in the number of posts I made for the year 2010. That was a result of being banned from Helium after a Democrat was elected to the White House in 2008 and sworn in January 2009. On Dec. 24th I was banned from a no-longer existing for-profit website for writers and so brought my articles over to blogspot.

A Comment on Omniscience

 I tend toward belief in God's omnipotence and omniscience. For instance, in the Mathematical Universe paradigm of Tegmark's with a level 4 multiverse, IMO, the entire construct is actualized thought of God in which human subroutine's experience what God wills. Evil in the Bible is natural disaster while wickedness i human malevolence to others. The capacity of God exceeds human understanding- humans are contingent being, wot.

Plotinus' Enneads (Plotinus was a neo-Platonist) illustrates some of the mystery of The One (God). Being omniscient he has no questions to answer or choices to make...those are temporal phenomena of contingent beings that do not know the past present and future of everything including every possible actualized form of multiverse.

Omniscience is not like temporal phenomenon including sentient minds. Everything that exists is temporal, God is more than that of course. All human or theoretical sentience of contingent beings is less than a fraction of everything that is God. Sentient besides God that wants more knowledge has questions, needs to learn etc. It is endemic to the criterion of temporal, thermodynamic being. God is more than everything he creates including Multiverse(s). There is much temporal language not well suited to describe the non-temporal, eternal that yet encompasses the appearance of temporal, thermodynamic change that contingent beings experience.

To answer the second paragraph first; God said; "I am". He does not need to prove His own existence. That would seem somewhat neurotic from a human point of view.

It is interesting that he encompasses temporality yet is eternal. God is spirit. The temporal thermodynamic, physical Universe is always in change. It seems to be made of quarks and strings. Strings have one dimension- points have zero dimensions. Leibniz believed that one-dimensional monads were the primary element of matter.

However one regards the smallest component, particle-wave pieces of matter, it is built up from basic, very basic field components of some unknown kind and the protocols add up to form the steady state of matter and energy comprising the Universe. Pure spiritual foundation in the mind of God is challenging to understand, yet the size or scale is relative unto God and His own being.

Tegmark's book is worth reading- The Mathematical Universe. He does not intend for it to be a theological paradigm at all; simply math. He believes math makes up the Multiverse at the fundamental level. A Multiverse may be fully actualized (it is very large), yet static; mind travels through the Multiverse and each though one has switches a mind through it to another Universe with the correct corresponding structure for the thought. Thought is all that moves. Heraclitus and Parmenides-two pre-Socratics, commented on what change is and how it might be viewed relativistically

There are innumerable ways to have a purely spiritual Universe and Multiverse. It may appear from some perspectives to grow and expand, and from other perhaps not. People are familiar with the paradoxes of general and special relativity, so one should be able to imagine what scale and how a Multiverse might be just a thought of God’s within his other non-temporal stuff.

If humans are comparable to real numbers, and to a small fraction between zero and one, at a virtually infinite level of reduction between those numbers- a set of some arbitrarily small number repeated equal to the population of the Earth, and are unaware they are of that scale and made of spirit set aside by God, they have a challenge before them in understanding all numbers and number theory that could possibly exist to its infinite scale. And the numbers and math are just a single aspect of God’s nature.

No Sites of Multiverse Available (poem)

Nothing of the sense of temporal change
evincing broken waves
filters

Multiverse's configurations variable
just one variable enough
forethought of plurality

Sentience, omnisentience, partitions
of necessity constant
being and nothingness

Zeros and ones simulation
of all allegiance contingent being
thankful for the Creator

Quanta of a snow field filled
crystals melt and flow
all of the hydrogen and oxygen unto each soul.

NASA-Chandra-Center of Milky Way Galaxy

Virtue Signaling = Affirmative Action for Dems in Showbiz

Buzz words tend to be annoying. Virtue signaling is a contemporary pop phrase for show biz. People that ordinarily would be typical Democrat Party voters are portrayed in Hero of the Soviet Union kinds of roles in acting. They expropriate traditional Republican straight white male roles and replace them with women, LGBLTQs and non-white race actors and actresses.

That people besides Republicans that are straight and white males want to star in Hollywood is understandable. Even so it is wrong to describe the drive to make the change to Democrat party characters as virtue for-itself. Not being an archetypal Republican does not make an actor or actress virtuous by default.

I find the politicization of virtue annoying, for the Democrat Party isn't much for classical or Christian virtue. They redefine virtue as meaning something like beyond good and evil- annoying. Super-powers or excellence in killing do not signal the presence of virtue. Doing the wrong things for virtuous reasons reduces the virtue rating by at least 50%. Socrates might have pondered that sort of thing.

Classical Platonic virtue isn't obvious to others. Aretaic ethics are the essence of classical virtue and the contemporary Democrat Party isn't anything like that. Ordinary people probably are not specially virtuous for being prosperous, spending and consuming a lot while following contemporary trends, fashions and language use-conforming consumerism and conspicuous consumption. Aborting 60 million babies since Rowe vs Wade, watching television networks and mainstream media owned by the 1%, acquiessing in 22 trillion dollars of debt, a society that pays soldiers mercenary wages instead of fielding volunteers serving motivated with patriotic public service as guardians of the state, allowing the democracy to be transformed into corporatism and marriage to morph into the meaninglessness of multiple-divorce and homosexuality are not examples of virtue at all. It is Orwellian takeover signaling-not virtue signaling.

It is fine to signal political preferences yet wrong to couple that with the word virtue unless one intends to debase the meaning of virtue. I have no idea how politicians and Hollywood without good ideas that could actually make society work better, imagine they are virtuous or are capable of signaling virtue. A high court that reinforces  social standards of godless swinishness isn't a good source for social instruction for virtue- much less Hollywood types.

If Hollywood portrays characters that do not support democracy, the reform of capitalism within democratic parameters, Christian ethics, honesty, philosophical learning, faith, courage in adversity, individualism, sobriety, temperance, ecological economics, space exploration, efficiency in technology and the elimination of poverty and oppression by others in the state or simply in society, inventiveness, excellence and Aretaic ethics it just isn't virtue. Sorry Hollywood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_ethics

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-virtue/

Japan and Korea Should Settle Differences Right Away

Japan and Korea should quickly settle their dispute over reparations for Second World War Japanese harm to Koreans forced into slave labor, prostitution and so forth. The United States learned to forgive war reparations damages because it exacerbates bad attitudes and feelings in the defeated party left over from the war. It is better to move forward when possible. The U.S.A. did not seek monetary compensation of post-war Germany or Japan for their terrible acts and perhaps in part because of that they are regarded today as good enough allies. Korea is in the same position today and could choose not to be won-wise and yen foolish.

It might be better for Korea to forgive Japan's war debts once and for all, through law. Korea probably can benefit far more financially from working with the Japanese better than in pursuing seventy year old litigation against war-time enemies.

North korea may be watching the lessons about South Korea and japan too. The Dictator may be concerned that if peace breaks out and relations are normalized the South and others may seek reparations and legal damages that would cost North Korea a bundle. Hence it might be that nuclear weapons development are the sole way out.

 To labor the point a little; a forgiving South Korea and a cordial Japan might be better partners ahead for North Korea than belligerents fighting over every scrap bitterly. A better Korean social safety net might obviate the need for Japanese payments to the poor and long-suffering of South Korea.

Extinction Rebellion; Too Many People With Too Few Reform of Capitalism Ideas?

The Extinction Rebellion movement in reaction to global warming danger is handicapped-severely, by a paucity of good ideas about how to reform capitalism such that it would be transformed toward a sustainable ecological economic foundation. 

https://thinkprogress.org/the-radical-philosophy-of-extinction-rebellion-5857d3955b57/

Capitalism and democracy are the best tools for reforming economic infrastructure quickly, with structural adaptations to combat the world of environmental problems created as a result of human technological evolution and too many people living on Earth consuming its natural resources and polluting the air with greenhouse gases.

The leftist approach is to use global treaty agreements that reinforce global government and repress individual human rights. It is a wrong approach that leads to social conflict with great opportunity costs in dividing the electorate and rendering the default of concentrating wealth and power for corporate and communist elites inevitably reinforced. They need to understand that simple actions can go a long way toward reforming economic infrastructure that pollutes and harms the ecosphere; there are far more ecosphere problems than global warming that require remedies directly.

https://www.amazon.com/Ecological-Economics-Second-Principles-Applications/dp/1597266817

https://garycgibson.blogspot.com/2019/07/ossified-invention-in-us-political.html

The best tools of national government for ecospheric remediation are being left unused. Not a single nation on Earth has a sustainable ecospheric economic infrastructure. Global treaties won't change that.

https://sustainablepath.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/what-is-ecological-economics-one-pag-pdf-080123.pdf

http://www.ussee.org/ U.S. Society for Ecological Economics