Can critical thinking explain why we are here?

[Dis]

someone said you don't ask why in science. this isn't true. Many people have asked why, and discovered many great things because of it. It's the basis of science. I'm sure Franklin wanted to know why flying a kite in a thunderstorm would get him hit by lightning for example.

As for the big bang, there are a couple of theories. One is that there was just one big bang. But another proposes eventually the universe will collapse upon itself, and repeat the process. This would be just a physic phenomena and there is no reason why it happens.

[FrostyBoy]

I had a theory once for why existence exists.

Basically, it's a paradox for nothing to exist, so existence does.

[Zevico]

You are presuming there is a "why" to be answered. Unless there was an external agency which created the universe, it is a nonsensical question, like "how many ducks does it take to travel back in time?"

Ducks cannot create time machines; hence the number of ducks required is the number necessary to evolve into either (a) a duck with the genetic ability to travel back in time or (b) a duck with the intelligence and ability to create a time machine. I think we can assume that we're going to need a lot of ducks for this.

Of course this answer assumes that time travel is possible. If it is impossible, then the answer is none.

[Heraclitus]

No, KH is, in fact, an idiot. He talks big, spouts crap, but in the end he's an idiot.

No.

He's just a jerk who loves squashing ingnorant folk online. If you don't meet minimal requirements for you to be squashed he just ignores you.

[Dis]

I had a theory once for why existence exists.

Basically, it's a paradox for nothing to exist, so existence does.

not bad, I like it.

[Heraclitus]

I had a theory once for why existence exists.

Basically, it's a paradox for nothing to exist, so existence does.

Did you come up with that sophism all by yourself?

[Heraclitus]

not bad, I like it.

You're wrong. It is bad. In fact its horrible.


Its likeable if you think the idea that you can't beat a turtle in a race is deep.

[Elok]

I had a theory once for why existence exists.

Basically, it's a paradox for nothing to exist, so existence does.

Is Matt Bowron your DL? I've never met anyone else on this site who can use that kind of pretentious, bastardized reasoning and pretend it's brilliant.

I'm not a scientist, but I suppose the genuine critical thinking answer to your question would be, "well, why not?" Of course, either question is unanswerable empirically, as like a billion people have said already.

[Drake Tungsten]

Its likeable if you think the idea that you can't beat a trutle in a race is deep.

If I couldn't beat a trutle in a race, then it wouldn't be a trutle anymore, hence I have to beat the trutle.

Whoa...

[Elok]

What's the sound of one hand clapping? C'mere, I'll slap you upside the head and we'll find out.

[FrostyBoy]

Is Matt Bowron your DL? I've never met anyone else on this site who can use that kind of pretentious, bastardized reasoning and pretend it's brilliant.

I'm not a scientist, but I suppose the genuine critical thinking answer to your question would be, "well, why not?" Of course, either question is unanswerable empirically, as like a billion people have said already.

Yeah, well I disagree. We have yet to understand everything. Does that not make sense to you?

[Dis]

You're wrong. It is bad. In fact its horrible.


Its likeable if you think the idea that you can't beat a trutle in a race is deep.

of course you can beat a turtle in a race. They are slow.

OK it doesn't actually explain anything. But you can say it's the short version. The long version involves a deep explanation of the big bang, baryogenesis and all this other crap I can't remember.

I do believe it is possible for nothing to exist. As with the question. What occupied the space that our current universe occupies before the big bang? The answer? nothing. It did not exist.

[Kuciwalker]

You can ask 'why' in other disciplines.

Sure, disciplines that involve intelligent agents. I can ask why Hitler invaded Poland. I can't ask why an earthquake went off in 2004, kill 200,000 people, without assuming some intelligent agent caused it.

You also mischaracterize science as being wholly uninterested in this question. Psychology, for instance, is clearly intimately concerned with it.

[FrostyBoy]

Exactly 7,769 years from now, "the machine" will search its archives and discover my thread and announce me as God for it will realize I was right all along.

[Dis]

Exactly 7,769 years from now, "the machine" will search its archives and discover my thread and announce me as God for it will realize I was right all along.

not until you explain why not existing is a paradox. I admit it sounds cool, but it isn't true. See my example above about the geometry of the universe etc.