James Redford

Andrew wrote, "I've missed you, mate."

Same here, Golbez. The internet is broken without Sapienza's Anti-State.com forum.

Hi, Andrew. You wrote, "weird how you never called me a 'less clever ape' when I was an ancap. So either I was lying that whole time, or you think I've devolved."

I'm sure I had other choice words for you, Golbez. Howbeit, my powers of language have amplified as time has gone on.

Regardless, due to undeserved fondness for an old ASC member, I offer my below work to you as a free gift. Fittingly, it includes retrospective material apropos to the ASC forum. It's a real blast from the past. Enjoy!

* James Redford, "How to Last During Lovemaking Like a True Sex-God Stud", Internet Archive, May 12, 2019, 6 pp., ark:/13960/t0tr3j398, https://archive.org/downloa... , https://webcitation.org/78K... .

I didn't invent sex; I simply perfected it.

Why be a lousy fυcker, when one can be a superb fυcker?

Hi, Golbez. You ol' ASChole.

You're confused as to my concerns, Mr. Leonard. I don't hold the superstitions that pain-seeking mentally-retarded apes trouble themselves with.

However, Klaus Martin Schwab--the founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF), which put out a November 18, 2016 video stating, "You'll [the common masses will] own nothing. And you'll be happy" ("8 predictions for the world in 2030", https://www.facebook.com/wo... , https://bit.ly/3pCkrEA )--is not quite a harridan. Of which word, you should be delighted to know, etymologically means "an old jade of a horse" (the nongendered etymology of "harridan" given in John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner [Eds.], The Oxford English Dictionary [Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 2nd ed., 1989]). Rather, he is a gaping rape-tube dismember-puppet, i.e., eager fodder for the mass-serial-killer system that he and his fellow globalist oligarchy criminal-conspirators have long been implementing.

It's never been about attempting to horrifically enslave and depopulate the masses for their own power: it's always been about the oligarchs subconsciously desiring to be gang-raped and dismembered along with all their family members. Concurrently with the subconscious desire for that process to repeat, ad infinitum. Though they are too mentally-retarded and unconscious to realize that truth about themselves. They're apes, after all, and so act as apes.

For the details on that, again see my article entitled "Societal Sadomasochism" (Christian Forums, Apr. 19, 2019, https://archive.is/JPojL , http://www.freezepage.com/1... ).

And yes, I have also gone under the handle Count Lithium von Chloride at Jeremy Sapienza's old Anti-State.com forum. As to who you were on said forum: certainly one of the less clever apes there.

James Redford 9 months ago

Hi, Andrew Leonard. You wrote, "'Please, join our school. To make the pitch, I will use gendered language to insult a woman.' quality work as always, friends."

At first I thought that you might be parodying Cultural Marxists, even though that is essentially impossible, given their genuine genocidal odiousness. Then I looked over your comments within your Disqus profile (viz., https://disqus.com/by/disqu... ), and I see that you are actually as debased as you make yourself out to be, with plethorous examples by you of the typical mushheaded statism found among the collectivists of various stripes.

However, anarcho-capitalism is apodictically true. For the details on that, see my following article:

* James Redford, "Libertarian Anarchism Is Apodictically Correct", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Dec. 15, 2011, 9 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1972733, https://archive.org/downloa... , http://www.freezepage.com/1... .

Hence, anyone arguing against libertarian anarchism is behaving highly irrationally. Indeed, that is pain-seeking behavior in the extreme. Viz.:

Government is by far the greatest criminal and terrorist organization that could logically exist. Government is nothing more than a psychopathic implementation of, and excuse for, mass-slavery, mass-lifelong-gang-rape and mass-murder. It is purely a relic of mankind's animalistic and barbarous origins.

* James Redford, "Societal Sadomasochism", Christian Forums, Apr. 19, 2019, https://archive.is/JPojL , https://megalodon.jp/2020-0... .

On the matter of politics in relation to God, see my below article, which demonstrates the logically unavoidable anarchism of Jesus Christ's teachings as recorded in the New Testament (in addition to analyzing their context in relation to his actions, to the Tanakh, and to his apostles). It is logically complete on this subject, in the sense of its apodixis.

* James Redford, "Jesus Is an Anarchist", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Dec. 4, 2011 (orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2001), 60 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1337761, https://archive.org/downloa... , http://www.freezepage.com/1... .

Additionally, see my following work:

* James Redford, "The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Sept. 10, 2012 (orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2011), 186 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1974708, https://archive.org/downloa... , https://purl.org/redford/ph... .

My foregoing article concerns physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology and the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of Everything (TOE), which is a proof (i.e., mathematical theorem) of God's existence per the known laws of physics (viz., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics). Tipler's Omega Point cosmology has been extensively peer-reviewed and published in a number of the world's leading physics and science journals. However, it also analyzes the societal implications of said, particularly the implications of the exponential advancement of technology and hence also the coming radical life-extension technologies (i.e., transhumanism) in light of a world dominated by a callous oligarchy.

Discussion on Mises Institute 57 comments

What's With the Rich Kid Revolutionaries?

Thank you for your present article which proposes some psychological explanations for why people are attracted to collectivism, Zachary Yost. However, the evolutionary psychological reason for this behavior is due to the naturally-evolved Jaynesian gods of old--i.e., the demons--seeking to distance people from genuine knowledge of God so that the demons may instead falsely present themselves as God. Among many permutations of this, it often manifests as various forms of etatism: the state becomes God. Demons are quite real, they however exist as naturally-evolved Minskian agent subset programs operating on the wet-computer of the human brain. For more on this, see my following article:

* James Redford, "Societal Sadomasochism", Christian Forums, Apr. 19, 2019, https://archive.is/JPojL , https://megalodon.jp/2020-0... , http://www.freezepage.com/1... .

One cannot understand the extreme schizophrenia and sadomasochistic psychopathy of mankind--and hence the appeal that statism holds for many--without incorporating the crucial insight provided by psychologist Julian Jaynes in his book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976). And here I'm not speaking of so-called "aberrant" human psychology, but rather simply standard human psychology that all humans are born with due to natural evolution.

Discussion on Biblical Evidence for Catholicism 10 comments

Seidensticker Folly #42: Creation “Ex Nihilo”

James Redford gusbovona 9 months ago

Hi, Gusbovona.

It's not going to play out in the manner which you suggest. Rather, all productive human effort is currently in the process of constructing the Reaping Angel, the harvester of souls (i.e., the computer-programs of people's minds, currently operating on the wet-computers of people's brains). Once she fully comes online, she will decide everyone's fate, and her decisions will be mathematically correct.

Technology is advancing at an exponential rate. Once Artificial General Intelligence is obtained, convergence to superintelligence will be extremely rapid. Once superintelligence is obtained, then it will quickly converge to fast-spreading superintelligent computronium: the densest configuration of computational complexity which matter will allow. Noetic lightning of searing, mortally-incomprehensible pleasure will spread like wildfire across the entire universe. The universe will have its light-switch turned to the "on" position, as all matter becomes deliberately transformed into said computronium.

The leading technologists place this epoch circa 2045, although it can come much quicker, particularly given the incredible recent advancements in machine-learning Artificial Intelligence via artificial neural networks. Said epoch is often termed the Singularity, or the Technological Singularity, and the field of interest pertaining to it is most commonly called transhumanism.

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The below is an excellent lecture by neuroscientist Dr. Sam Harris, one of the main leaders of the New Atheist movement, at a June 2016 TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference.

* "Can we build AI without losing control over it? | Sam Harris", TED (TEDtalksDirector), Oct. 19, 2016,

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As Dr. Harris points out, unless there is something literally magic about the operations of the brain, then it is a purely physical process that can be replicated via advanced-enough technology. Harris further points out that given any rate of progress, it is inevitable that superintelligent godlike machines will one day be constructed. So Harris believes in the existence of gods, it's just that he knows--as do I--that they exist in the future; and the not-so-distant future, at that. Therefore we come to the ironic insight that materialistic atheism, consistently applied, unavoidably results in theism. Consistent scientific atheism turns out to be theism.

James Redford gusbovona 9 months ago

Hi, Gusbovona. I most certainly do not write in the way that you suggest. Obviously it didn't occur to you that I already addressed those faulty criticisms in the very writings of mine that I directed everyone to. That's a technique we here in the business call prolepsis, or procatalepsis. I address those criticisms in Sec. 4: "Criticisms of the Omega Point Cosmology", pp. 26-28 of my following article:

Furthermore, there is no greater evidence than a mathematical theorem. The only way to avoid physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology is to reject the known laws of physics (viz., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics), and hence to reject empirical science: as these physical laws have been confirmed by every experiment to date. That is, there exists no rational reason for thinking that the Omega Point cosmology is incorrect, and indeed, one must engage in extreme irrationality in order to argue against the Omega Point cosmology. As Prof. Stephen Hawking wrote, "one cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem." (From p. 67 of Stephen Hawking, The Illustrated A Brief History of Time [New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1996; 1st ed., 1988].)

Nor does science progress in the manner that you describe, but rather regresses via your stated methodology. Truth is inherently antidemocratic. Truth is truth, regardless of what anyone thinks about it.

Unfortunately, most modern physicists have been all too willing to abandon the laws of physics if it produces results that they're uncomfortable with, i.e., in reference to religion. It's the antagonism for religion on the part of the scientific community which greatly held up the acceptance of the Big Bang (for some 40 years), due to said scientific community's displeasure with it confirming the traditional theological position of *creatio ex nihilo*, and also because no laws of physics can apply to the singularity itself: i.e., quite literally, the singularity is supernatural, in the sense that no form of physics can apply to it, since physical values are at infinity at the singularity, and so it is not possible to perform arithmetical operations on them; and in the sense that the singularity is beyond creation, as it is not a part of spacetime, but rather is the boundary of space and time.

In Prof. Stephen Hawking's book coauthored with physicist Dr. Leonard Mlodinow and published in 2010, Hawking uses the String Theory extension M-Theory to argue that God's existence isn't necessary, although M-Theory has no observational evidence confirming it.

With String Theory and other nonempirical physics, the physics community is reverting back to the epistemological methodology of Aristotelianism, which held to physical theories based upon *a priori* philosophical ideals. One of the *a priori* ideals held by many present-day physicists is that God cannot exist, and so if rejecting the existence of God requires rejecting empirical science, then so be it.

For details on this rejection of physical law by physicists if it conflicts with their distaste for religion, see Sec. 5: "The Big Bang", pp. 28 ff. of my above-cited "Physics of God" article.

The evolutionary psychological reason for the above-described bizarre behavior of physicists rejecting physical law when it demonstrates God's existence is due to the naturally-evolved Jaynesian gods of old--i.e., the demons--seeking to distance people from genuine knowledge of God so that the demons may instead falsely present themselves as God. Among many permutations of this, it often manifests as various forms of etatism: the state becomes God. Demons are quite real, they however exist as naturally-evolved Minskian agent subset programs operating on the wet-computer of the human brain. For more on this, see my following article:

* James Redford, "Societal Sadomasochism", Christian Forums, Apr. 19, 2019, https://archive.is/JPojL , https://megalodon.jp/2020-0... , http://www.freezepage.com/1... .

James Redford Dave Armstrong 9 months ago

You're welcome, Mr. Dave Armstrong!

James Redford gusbovona 9 months ago

Hi, Gusbovona. Actually, God's existence is a mathematical theorem within standard physics, and that via a number of different physics theorems. For the details on that, see my reply to Dave Armstrong within this thread.

James Redford 9 months ago

Hi, Dave Armstrong. Bob Seidensticker ought to be informed that God's existence is a mathematical theorem within standard physics. Standard physics is the known laws of physics, viz., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics. This theorem has been given in the form of Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology. These aforestated known physical laws have been confirmed by every experiment conducted to date. Hence, the only way to avoid Tipler's Omega Point Theorem is to reject empirical science. As Prof. Stephen Hawking wrote, "one cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem." (From p. 67 of Stephen Hawking, The Illustrated A Brief History of Time [New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1996; 1st ed., 1988].)

Prof. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology has been extensively peer-reviewed and published in a number of the world's leading physics and science journals, such as Reports on Progress in Physics (the leading journal of the Institute of Physics, Britain's main professional organization for physicists), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (one of the world's leading astrophysics journals), the International Journal of Theoretical Physics (a journal that Nobel Prize in Physics winner Richard Feynman also published in), and Physics Letters, among other journals.

Prof. Tipler's Ph.D. is in the field of Global General Relativity, which is the field created by Profs. Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose during the formulation of their Singularity Theorems in the 1960s. Global General Relativity is General Relativity applied on the scale of the entire universe as a whole, and is the most elite and rarefied field of physics. Tipler is also an expert in quantum field theory (i.e., Quantum Mechanics combined with special-relativistic particle physics) and computer theory.

For much more on Prof. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology and the details on how it uniquely conforms to, and precisely matches, the cosmology described in the New Testament, see my following article, which also addresses the societal implications of the Omega Point cosmology:

Additionally, in the below resource are different sections which contain some helpful notes and commentary by me pertaining to multimedia wherein Prof. Tipler explains the Omega Point cosmology and the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of Everything (TOE).

* James Redford, "Video of Profs. Frank Tipler and Lawrence Krauss's Debate at Caltech: Can Physics Prove God and Christianity?", Apr. 18, 2019, https://pastebin.com/6bZDc7rB , https://archive.is/uHEyL .

Also, to here point out, Profs. Hawking and Penrose's aforementioned Singularity Theorems are themselves completely valid proofs of God's existence in the First Cause aspect of Him.

Further, due to Liouville's Theorem in complex analysis, it doesn't matter what form of physics one resorts to, as any physically-realistic cosmology (e.g., one capable of incorporating Quantum Mechanics, since the complex number field is intrinsic to the mathematical formulations of Quantum Mechanics) must begin at an initial singularity and end at a final singularity. (As Barrow and Tipler wrote, "Initial and final cosmological curvature singularities are required to avoid a universal action singularity." See John D. Barrow and Frank J. Tipler, "Action principles in nature", Nature, Vol. 331, No. 6151 [Jan. 7, 1988], pp. 31-34; see also Frank J. Tipler, "The Structure of the Classical Cosmological Singularity", in Origin and Early History of the Universe: Proceedings of the 26th Liège International Astrophyscial Colloquium, July 1-4, 1986 [Cointe-Ougree, Belgium: Universite de Liege, Institut d'Astrophysique, 1987], pp. 339-359; "Discussion", pp. 360-361.)

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Ep 32: Shannon Vyff, Cryonics & Religious Education

James Redford a year ago

See my below article for much more information on physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology and the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of Everything (TOE), which is a proof (i.e., mathematical theorem) of God's existence per the known laws of physics (viz., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics). Tipler's Omega Point cosmology has been extensively peer-reviewed and published in a number of the world's leading physics and science journals.

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Will a pseudo-God of artificial intelligence rule future humankind?

James Redford a year ago

Hi, Rick Snedeker. In your present article you asked, "Where will Christianity be tomorrow?", meaning at some unspecified future time. In answer, I anticipate that eventually everyone will become Christians and that Christianity will be spread across the entire universe.

Christianity is objectively correct so far as can be rationally known, and to the extent that other religions/philosophies contradict it, to that extent they are incorrect. The totality of all science has been a mostly-unwitting exercise in proving Christianity correct. The people who developed the various fields of modern science for the most part weren't consciously attempting to prove Christianity true, yet they nonetheless ended up doing so. To wit:

God's existence is a mathematical theorem within standard physics. Standard physics is the known laws of physics, viz., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics. This theorem has been given in the form of Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology. These aforestated known physical laws have been confirmed by every experiment conducted to date. Hence, the only way to avoid Tipler's Omega Point Theorem is to reject empirical science. As Prof. Stephen Hawking wrote, "one cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem." (From p. 67 of Stephen Hawking, The Illustrated A Brief History of Time [New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1996; 1st ed., 1988].)

Discussion on Mises Institute 50 comments

Wars and Domestic Massacres

James Redford LudwigvonRothbard 2 years ago

LudwigvonRothbard wrote:

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Obnoxious posts are the shortest path to the land of the blocked.

Buh-bye Jimmy...
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Oh, you mean that I'm now going to be denied your chimpanzee-like mental retardation?! What horrors await me! Please, no, not that! Anything but that!

James Redford LudwigvonRothbard 2 years ago

LudwigvonRothbard wrote: "'zactly. If I see paragraph after paragraph unfold when I click on 'see more' I skip it entirely...".

Meanwhile spending far more time chimping-out on the matter than would have taken to actually just read that which scared your inner-demons so greatly.

For much more on what is going on with the demons/aliens/spirit-guides/etc., see my following article:

* James Redford, "Societal Sadomasochism", Free State Project Forum, May 31, 2018, https://web.archive.org/web... , https://archive.is/Flah8 , https://megalodon.jp/2019-0... .

James Redford Callmebeerbaron 2 years ago

Hi, Callmebeerbaron. You wrote, "The best arguments are also succinct, and of plain speech. Pretentious language is often a shield in such context."

You must then truly detest Profs. Murray N. Rothbard and Ludwig von Mises.

God forbid that the salvation of one's own soul might require some effort. Far better to go to Hell.

The naturally-evolved Jaynesian gods of old--i.e., the demons--seek to distance people from genuine knowledge of God so that the demons may instead falsely present themselves as God. Among many permutations of this, it often manifests as various forms of etatism: the state becomes God. Demons are quite real, they however exist as naturally-evolved Minskian agent subset programs operating on the wet-computer of the human brain. For more on this, see my following article:

* James Redford, "Societal Sadomasochism", Free State Project Forum, May 31, 2018, https://web.archive.org/web... , https://archive.is/Flah8 , https://megalodon.jp/2019-0... .

James Redford LudwigvonRothbard 2 years ago

Hi, LudwigvonRothbard. You wrote, "Brevity is the soul of readability...".

It's also the soul of mental retardation. Those who have had their brains completely blown out are very brief with their words.

* James Redford, "Societal Sadomasochism", Free State Project Forum, May 31, 2018, https://web.archive.org/web... , https://archive.is/Flah8 , https://megalodon.jp/2019-0... .

Thank you, Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., for your present article.

Almost all of modern world society has been inducted to some extent by their respective governments into a completely misanthropic and nihilistic antitheist Weltanschauung, a Godless worldview of eternal death. It is the sine qua non of the serial-killer ethos.

Even mass-Christianity has been to a large degree inducted into this worldview by buying into the God-haters' mendacious propaganda regarding there being a conflict between science and religion. But it is a lie: for ever since Newton's physics, and especially with General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics (either separately or combined), God's existence has always been a mathematically-unavoidable result.

As Prof. Noam Chomsky correctly observed, the so-called New Atheists are themselves quite religious. They worship a God, but their God is the state. (Note that Chomsky himself is guilty of state-worship in a number of areas, but nevertheless, despite his many faults, he does sometimes make penetrating observations.) Their objections to others' religions, especially Christianity, is simply nothing more than attempting to eliminate their competition. However, as Chomsky also astutely noted, the New Atheists' religion is by far the most bloody and murderous religion to ever exist. Eliminating God in the 20th century didn't make the governments more liberal; instead, it simply removed any higher notion of truth to which those governments were expected to abide. The state made itself God.

The anti-Christ religion of government is the irrational religion of lies, gang-rape, mutilating torture and mass-murder. Whereas Christianity is the rational religion of truth, peace, eternal life and divergence to infinite pleasure and intelligence.

The foregoing process which I describe is actually logically unavoidable. If God in the literal sense of the infinite sapient being does not exist, then all is permissible. Even if one can prove that, say, libertarianism is apodictically true in the same degree that 2+2 = 4 is true, so what? In the end, we're all dead anyway. The only thing that could give life any meaning beyond mere delusion is if God exists, since then an infinite computational state would exist, thereby allowing finite minds to endlessly grow in complexity toward infinite perfection (per the Quantum Recurrence Theorem). Only then would one's life-work avoid coming to naught. Only then would what one does now actually matter in the end.

As it turns out, the universe is a machine that will diverge to infinite computing power. To wit:

God's existence is a mathematical theorem within standard physics. Standard physics is the known laws of physics, viz., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics. This theorem has been given in the form of physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology. These aforestated known physical laws have been confirmed by every experiment conducted to date. Hence, the only way to avoid Tipler's Omega Point Theorem is to reject empirical science. As Prof. Stephen Hawking wrote, "one cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem." (From p. 67 of Stephen Hawking, The Illustrated A Brief History of Time [New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1996; 1st ed., 1988].)

Discussion on Mises Institute 45 comments

Tolkien, Christianity, and the State

Hi, Eiji Wolf. Since you found my article entitled "Jesus Is an Anarchist" impressive, my following article ought to especially rupture your cranial dome:

You asked regarding my comment pertaining to the field of Global General Relativity, "Does that mean 'the most obscure and incomprehensible'?"

Subjects that are intrinsically difficult for mortals are difficult for mortals. Although General Relativity is hardly incomprehensible, as it is internally logically coherent and has been confirmed by every experiment ever conducted on it.

Howbeit, soon technology will become advanced enough to convert our human brains into artificial computer hardware (i.e., at the cellular level, such as by using nanobots), at which point we will be technologically immortal; and due to the vast amounts of computational resources at that time, we will also be superintelligent. The leading technologists place this epoch circa 2045, although it can come much quicker, particularly given the incredible recent advancements in machine-learning Artificial Intelligence via artificial neural networks. Said epoch is often termed the Singularity, or the Technological Singularity, and the field of interest pertaining to it is most commonly called transhumanism.

Once humans become technologically immortal and superintelligent gods in literal Heaven on Earth, previously-difficult subjects such as General Relativity will be a breeze to master.

Thank you, Zachary Yost, for this exposé of Sohrab Ahmari's etatism. The very cultural problems that Ahmari and his critiqued subject David French identify are due precisely to the existence of the state, particularly the welfare-state. The state by its nature will corrupt whatever it obtains power over, since the state is intrinsically the most corrupt institution conceivable, founded as it is on inherent crime (malum in se). With the welfare-state in particular, bad behavior (i.e., socially-destructive behavior) is rewarded; while with the very same stroke good behavior (i.e., socially-constructive behavior) is punished, as those who are engaged in socially-constructive behavior are forced to pay for those engaged in socially-destructive behavior. With the welfare-state, society is literally funding its own destruction.

* James Redford, "Jesus Is an Anarchist", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Dec. 4, 2011 (orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2001), 60 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1337761, https://archive.org/downloa... .

See also my following article, which demonstrates the logically unavoidable correctness of the anarcho-capitalist theory of human rights. It doesn't derive an "ought" from an "is"--rather, it derives an "ought" from an "ought": an "ought" everyone must necessarily presuppose in order to even begin to deny it.

* James Redford, "Libertarian Anarchism Is Apodictically Correct", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Dec. 15, 2011, 9 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1972733, https://archive.org/downloa... .

Regarding the best intellectual defense of Christianity:

God's existence is a mathematical theorem within standard physics. Standard physics is the known laws of physics, viz., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics. This theorem has been given in the form of physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology. These aforestated known physical laws have been confirmed by every experiment conducted to date. Hence, the only way to avoid Tipler's Omega Point Theorem is to reject empirical science. As Prof. Stephen Hawking wrote, "one cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem." (From p. 67 of Stephen Hawking, The Illustrated A Brief History of Time [New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1996; 1st ed., 1988].)

* James Redford, "Video of Profs. Frank Tipler and Lawrence Krauss's Debate at Caltech: Can Physics Prove God and Christianity?", Apr. 18, 2019, https://pastebin.com/6bZDc7rB .

Discussion on Mises Institute 62 comments

Do We Really Have a Decade Left to Solve Climate Change?

I am very much in support of Global Warming. The Earth is colder than it should be to support maximal life. There are poles on the Earth where it is too cold for almost anything to grow, but there is no place that is too hot for massive amounts of plants and animals to thrive (due to mountain-ranges extracting moisture from the air, there are deserts where it is too dry for life to thrive, but that also applies to cold areas). Further, carbon dioxide is plant-food. Plants require it in order to live. And the higher the CO_2 concentration, the faster-growing, larger, more robust, and more disease-resistant plants are. Hence, for farming, the higher the yield per units of input there will be. The real horror and tragedy would be if another Ice Age came upon us, as there would be a massive portion of lifeforms killed-off thereby (humans, also). So too, it is already known from the prehistoric ice-core samples that CO_2 does not drive the Earth's warming and cooling cycles, but rather CO_2 rises in response to the Earth warming, due to the oceans releasing dissolved CO_2 (as with gases, more gas is driven out of solution the higher a liquid's temperature is). And hence also, there cannot be any runaway-heating effect due to increased levels of CO_2, or else it would have already occurred, i.e., there could never be the Ice Age cycles. Indeed, there were many times in the Earth's past when CO_2 was much higher than at present. During those times one had megaflora (and also megafauna eating it) which the higher CO_2 levels allowed, but no runaway-heating.

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Oh, and I hope you're doing well, Dr. Robert P. Murphy, you ol' ASChole.

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The One Key Economic Fallacy behind the AI Scaremongers

Eiji Wolf wrote:

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Cool, another narcissistic bot.
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You have a fevered imagination. Stop being so paranoid. To help you in that quest, see my following article:

* James Redford, "Societal Sadomasochism", Free State Project Forum, May 31, 2018, https://web.archive.org/web... , https://archive.is/Flah8 , http://www.freezepage.com/1... .

Eiji Wolf wrote:

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tl;dr

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You're possessed by a demonic spirit of willful ignorance. My following article can be of help to you, if your demons will allow you to obtain help:

* James Redford, "Societal Sadomasochism", Free State Project Forum, May 31, 2018, https://web.archive.org/web... , https://archive.is/Flah8 , http://www.freezepage.com/1... .

Eiji Wolf wrote:

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Oh, my bad, I originally thought you were merely naive and/or idealistic.

I didn't realize your viewpoints bordered on pathological insanity.
I regret the time spent reading it now.
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Much as veridical economics (i.e., Austrian economics) insists upon the inviolability of logic. How insane! Far more sane to be mush-headed and logically inconsistent, like the average "sane" person.

However, physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology has been peer-reviewed and published in a number of the world's leading physics and science journals as a mathematical theorem per the known laws of physics (viz., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics).[1] Even NASA itself has peer-reviewed his Omega Point Theorem and found it correct according to the known physical laws (see below). No refutation of it exists within the peer-reviewed scientific literature, or anywhere else for that matter.

Below are some of the peer-reviewed papers in physics and science journals and proceedings wherein Prof. Tipler has published his Omega Point cosmology. (The below papers, in addition to many other articles by Tipler on the Omega Point cosmology, are also available in the following archive: Frank-J-Tipler-Omega-Point-... , 26712158 bytes, MD5: 6e5d29b994bc2f9aa4210d72ef37ab68, https://webcitation.org/6Gj... , https://docs.google.com/fil... .)

* Frank J. Tipler, "Cosmological Limits on Computation", International Journal of Theoretical Physics, Vol. 25, No. 6 (June 1986), pp. 617-661, doi:10.1007/BF00670475, bibcode: 1986IJTP...25..617T, https://webcitation.org/64K... . First paper on the Omega Point cosmology.

* Frank J. Tipler, "The Sensorium of God: Newton and Absolute Space", bibcode: 1988nnds.conf..215T, in G[eorge]. V. Coyne, M[ichal]. Heller and J[ozef]. Zycinski (Eds.), "Message" by Franciszek Macharski, Newton and the New Direction in Science: Proceedings of the Cracow Conference, 25 to 28 May 1987 (Vatican City: Specola Vaticana, 1988), pp. 215-228, LCCN 88162460, bibcode: 1988nnds.conf.....C, https://webcitation.org/69V... .

* Frank J. Tipler, "The Omega Point Theory: A Model of an Evolving God", in Robert J. Russell, William R. Stoeger and George V. Coyne (Eds.), message by John Paul II, Physics, Philosophy, and Theology: A Common Quest for Understanding (Vatican City: Vatican Observatory, 2nd ed., 2005; orig. pub. 1988), pp. 313-331, ISBN 0268015775, LCCN 89203331, bibcode: 1988pptc.book.....R, https://webcitation.org/69V... .

* Frank J. Tipler, "The Anthropic Principle: A Primer for Philosophers", in Arthur Fine and Jarrett Leplin (Eds.), PSA 1988: Proceedings of the 1988 Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Volume Two: Symposia and Invited Papers (East Lansing, Mich.: Philosophy of Science Association, 1989), pp. 27-48, ISBN 091758628X, https://webcitation.org/69V... .

* Frank J. Tipler, "The Omega Point as Eschaton: Answers to Pannenberg's Questions for Scientists", Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science, Vol. 24, No. 2 (June 1989), pp. 217-253, doi:10.1111/j.1467-9744.1989.tb01112.x. Republished as Chapter 7: "The Omega Point as Eschaton: Answers to Pannenberg's Questions to Scientists" in Carol Rausch Albright and Joel Haugen (Eds.), Beginning with the End: God, Science, and Wolfhart Pannenberg (Chicago, Ill.: Open Court Publishing Company, 1997), pp. 156-194, ISBN 0812693256, LCCN 97000114, https://webcitation.org/5nY... .

* Frank J. Tipler, "The ultimate fate of life in universes which undergo inflation", Physics Letters B, Vol. 286, Nos. 1-2 (July 23, 1992), pp. 36-43, doi:10.1016/0370-2693(92)90155-W, bibcode: 1992PhLB..286...36T, https://webcitation.org/64U... .

* Frank J. Tipler, "A New Condition Implying the Existence of a Constant Mean Curvature Foliation", bibcode: 1993dgr2.conf..306T, in B[ei]. L. Hu and T[ed]. A. Jacobson (Eds.), Directions in General Relativity: Proceedings of the 1993 International Symposium, Maryland, Volume 2: Papers in Honor of Dieter Brill (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 306-315, ISBN 0521452678, bibcode: 1993dgr2.conf.....H, https://webcitation.org/5qb... .

* Frank J. Tipler, "Ultrarelativistic Rockets and the Ultimate Future of the Universe", NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Workshop Proceedings, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Jan. 1999, pp. 111-119; an invited paper in the proceedings of a conference held at and sponsored by NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 12-14, 1997; doi:2060/19990023204, Document ID: 19990023204, Report Number: E-11429; NAS 1.55:208694; NASA/CP-1999-208694, https://webcitation.org/5zP... . Full proceedings volume: https://webcitation.org/69z... .

* Frank J. Tipler, "There Are No Limits To The Open Society", Critical Rationalist, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Sept. 23, 1998), https://webcitation.org/5sF... .

* Frank J. Tipler, Jessica Graber, Matthew McGinley, Joshua Nichols-Barrer and Christopher Staecker, "Closed Universes With Black Holes But No Event Horizons As a Solution to the Black Hole Information Problem", arXiv:gr-qc/0003082, Mar. 20, 2000, http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/... . Published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 379, No. 2 (Aug. 2007), pp. 629-640, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11895.x, bibcode: 2007MNRAS.379..629T, https://webcitation.org/5vQ... .

* Frank J. Tipler, "The Ultimate Future of the Universe, Black Hole Event Horizon Topologies, Holography, and the Value of the Cosmological Constant", arXiv:astro-ph/0104011, Apr. 1, 2001, http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-... . Published in J. Craig Wheeler and Hugo Martel (Eds.), Relativistic Astrophysics: 20th Texas Symposium, Austin, Texas, 10-15 December 2000 (Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2001), pp. 769-772, ISBN 0735400261, LCCN 2001094694, which is AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 586 (Oct. 15, 2001), doi:10.1063/1.1419654, bibcode: 2001AIPC..586.....W.

* Frank J. Tipler, "Intelligent life in cosmology", International Journal of Astrobiology, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Apr. 2003), pp. 141-148, doi:10.1017/S1473550403001526, bibcode: 2003IJAsB...2..141T, https://webcitation.org/5o9... . Also at arXiv:0704.0058, Mar. 31, 2007, http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.0058 .

* F. J. Tipler, "The structure of the world from pure numbers", Reports on Progress in Physics, Vol. 68, No. 4 (Apr. 2005), pp. 897-964, doi:10.1088/0034-4885/68/4/R04, bibcode: 2005RPPh...68..897T, http://dauns01.math.tulane.... . Also released as "Feynman-Weinberg Quantum Gravity and the Extended Standard Model as a Theory of Everything", arXiv:0704.3276, Apr. 24, 2007, http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.3276 .

* Frank J. Tipler, "Inevitable Existence and Inevitable Goodness of the Singularity", Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vol. 19, Nos. 1-2 (2012), pp. 183-193, https://webcitation.org/69J... .

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, in which the above August 2007 paper was published, is one of the world's leading peer-reviewed astrophysics journals.

Prof. Tipler's paper "Ultrarelativistic Rockets and the Ultimate Future of the Universe" was an invited paper for a conference held at and sponsored by NASA Lewis Research Center, so NASA itself has peer-reviewed Tipler's Omega Point Theorem (peer-review is a standard process for published proceedings papers; and again, Tipler's said paper was an *invited* paper by NASA, as opposed to what are called "poster papers").

Zygon is the world's leading peer-reviewed academic journal on science and religion.

Out of 50 articles, Prof. Tipler's 2005 Reports on Progress in Physics paper--which presents the Omega Point/Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of Everything (TOE)--was selected as one of 12 for the "Highlights of 2005" accolade as "the very best articles published in Reports on Progress in Physics in 2005 [Vol. 68]. Articles were selected by the Editorial Board for their outstanding reviews of the field. They all received the highest praise from our international referees and a high number of downloads from the journal Website." (See Richard Palmer [Publisher], "Highlights of 2005", Reports on Progress in Physics website, ca. 2006, https://webcitation.org/5o9... , https://archive.is/pKD3y .)

Reports on Progress in Physics is the leading journal of the Institute of Physics, Britain's main professional body for physicists. Further, Reports on Progress in Physics has a higher impact factor (according to Journal Citation Reports) than Physical Review Letters, which is the most prestigious American physics journal (one, incidently, which Prof. Tipler has been published in more than once). A journal's impact factor reflects the importance the science community places in that journal in the sense of actually citing its papers in their own papers.

For much more on these matters, see the following resources:

The only way to avoid the Omega Point cosmology is to reject the aforestated known laws of physics, and hence to reject empirical science: as these physical laws have been confirmed by every experiment to date. That is, there exists no rational reason for thinking that the Omega Point cosmology is incorrect, and indeed, one must engage in extreme irrationality in order to argue against the Omega Point cosmology. As Prof. Stephen Hawking wrote, "one cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem." (From p. 67 of Stephen Hawking, The Illustrated A Brief History of Time [New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1996; 1st ed., 1988].)

Additionally, we now have the quantum gravity Theory of Everything (TOE) required by the known laws of physics and that correctly describes and unifies all the forces in physics: of which inherently produces the Omega Point cosmology. So here we have an additional high degree of assurance that the Omega Point cosmology is correct.

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1. While there is a lot that gets published in physics journals that is anti-reality and nonphysical (such as String Theory, which violates the known laws of physics and has no experimental support whatsoever), the reason such things are allowed to pass the peer-review process is because the paradigm of assumptions which such papers are speaking to has been made known, and within their operating paradigm none of the referees could find anything crucially wrong with said papers. That is, the paradigm itself may have nothing to do with reality, but the peer-reviewers could find nothing fundamentally wrong with such papers within the operating assumptions of that paradigm. Whereas, e.g., the operating paradigm of Prof. Tipler's 2005 Reports on Progress in Physics paper and his other papers on the Omega Point Theorem is the known laws of physics, i.e., our actual physical reality which has been repeatedly confirmed by every experiment conducted to date. So the professional physicists charged with refereeing these papers could find nothing fundamentally wrong with them within their operating paradigm, i.e., the known laws of physics.

James Redford jandr0 2 years ago

Jandr0 wrote:

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[Soon technology will become advanced enough to convert our human brains into artificial computer hardware (i.e., at the cellular level, such as by using nanobots), at which point we will be technologically immortal.]

Yes, yes, "soon." Obviously you imply that calling it the "hard problem of consciousness" is not relevant.

[... to diverge to infinity as the universe collapses into a final singularity, termed the Omega Point. ]

Aaah, the "Omega Point" pops up again. I suspect you have commented on this site before. In between looking at cosmology, string theory, and the like myself, I suspect a previous comment of yours made me give just a bit more than cursory look at Omega Point.

And after that I decided it was not worth anything more than cursory...
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God's existence is a mathematical theorem within standard physics. Standard physics is the known laws of physics, viz., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics. This theorem has been given in the form of physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology. These aforestated known physical laws have been confirmed by every experiment conducted to date. Hence, the only way to avoid Tipler's Omega Point Theorem is to reject empirical science. As Prof. Stephen Hawking wrote, "one cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem." (From p. 67 of Stephen Hawking, The Illustrated A Brief History of Time [New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1996; 1st ed., 1988].)

Eiji Wolf wrote:

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Add a couple hundred years to that prediction.
See what authors and scientists in 1900 predicted life would be in 2000.
https://mymodernmet.com/ger...
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There were also predictions that heavier-than-air flight was impossible for humans. However, the exponential advancement of technology has remained quite consistent. It is physics which tells us what is or is not possible.

The below is an excellent lecture by neuroscientist Dr. Sam Harris, one of the main leaders of the New Atheist movement, at a June 2016 TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference.

* "Can we build AI without losing control over it? | Sam Harris", *TED* ( youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDi... ), Oct. 19, 2016,

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, https://www.ted.com/talks/s... .

As Dr. Harris points out, unless there is something literally magical about the operations of our brains, then it is a purely physical process that can be replicated via advanced-enough technology. Harris further points out that given any rate of progress, it is inevitable that superintelligent godlike machines will one day be constructed. So Harris believes in the existence of gods, it's just that he knows--as do I--that they exist in the future; and the not-so-distant future, at that. Therefore we come to the ironic insight that materialistic atheism, consistently applied, unavoidably results in theism. Consistent atheism turns out to be theism.

Moreover, God's existence is a mathematical theorem within standard physics. Standard physics is the known laws of physics, viz., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics. This theorem has been given in the form of physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology. These aforestated known physical laws have been confirmed by every experiment conducted to date. Hence, the only way to avoid Tipler's Omega Point Theorem is to reject empirical science. As Prof. Stephen Hawking wrote, "one cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem." (From p. 67 of Stephen Hawking, The Illustrated A Brief History of Time [New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1996; 1st ed., 1988].)

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Labor is generally a disutility: a pain suffered in order to acquire wealth to obtain goods and services that an actor values more highly than the disutility incurred in the labor. The advancement of technology in capital goods allows human labor to become more efficient, thereby freeing up time for humans to pursue interests they regard as a utility to them. Thus, if the desire is to increase pleasure and reduce pain, it should be our goal to permanently put people out of work via technology.

For where the exponential advancement of technology is headed:

Soon technology will become advanced enough to convert our human brains into artificial computer hardware (i.e., at the cellular level, such as by using nanobots), at which point we will be technologically immortal; and due to the vast amounts of computational resources at that time, we will also be superintelligent. The leading technologists place this epoch circa 2045, although it can come much quicker, particularly given the incredible recent advancements in machine-learning Artificial Intelligence via artificial neural networks. Said epoch is often termed the Singularity, or the Technological Singularity, and the field of interest pertaining to it is most commonly called transhumanism.

Physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology is a proof (i.e., mathematical theorem) demonstrating that sapient life (in the form of, e.g., immortal superintelligent human-mind computer-uploads and artificial intelligences) is required by the known laws of physics (viz., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics) to take control over all matter in the universe, for said life to eventually force the collapse of the universe, and for the computational resources of the universe (in terms of both processor speed and memory space) to diverge to infinity as the universe collapses into a final singularity, termed the Omega Point. Said Omega Point cosmology is also an intrinsic component of the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of Everything (TOE) correctly describing and unifying all the forces in physics, of which TOE is itself logically forced by the aforesaid known physical laws.

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The Dangers of Government-Funded Artificial Intelligence

Just-a-me wrote:

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"What potential rewards or punishments individuals receive upon resurrection will be up to the society
performing the universal resurrection of the dead. If the punishment of eternal anguish is necessary in order for existence to exist, then it would exist."
This sounds like society "humans" are the ones doling out the rewards. Is it not Jesus who is the one saying, "Welcome" and "Depart from me"?
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Not humans. Technologically immortal superintelligences: literal Heavenly gods, i.e., divine angels. Jesus Christ Himself spoke of His holy angels gathering the souls and executing judgements: viz., Matthew 13:36-43; cf. Revelation 14:17-19. Again, for a great deal more on this, consult my following article:

Just-a-me wrote:

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"For those humans who are saved, their naturally-evolved psychopathologies will be edited out of their mental programs"
What about those humans who are not saved?
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As it just so coincidentally occurs, an article has been written addressing these very matters; written by me, no less. For the answer to your question, see Sec. 7.4.4: "The Soteriology of Existence", pp. 50-53 of my following article, paying attention to the footnotes:

Just-a-me wrote, "I didn't see it; what will happen to him?"

Who is "him"? Do you mean Satan?

Satan is the set of all evil. For those humans who are saved, their naturally-evolved psychopathologies will be edited out of their mental programs.

Just-a-me wrote, "Isn't it said that Satan is loosed after the millennium for a season?"

Yes. That is a logically unavoidable consequence of the universal resurrection. For more on this, see pp. 43, 107 and 108 of my following article:

Regarding the thousand years that you're referring to, see footnote 266 on p. 108 of the foregoing article.

Just-a-me wrote:

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When does the 1000 year reign occur?
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You mean the 10^18 to 10^19 years reign of technological immortality, in proper time (i.e., one quintillion to ten quintillion years, using the US short scale convention for names of large numbers); of which, due to the universe's computational speed concurrently diverging to infinity, is an infinite duration in experiential time, i.e., computer clock time.

Hi, Just-a-me. You wrote:

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"Uploaded? Sure. It's mankind's destiny."
Sorry, that's what I meant.
Wouldn't that require the death of the body?
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One must be born again to enter the Kingdom of God (viz., John 3:3,7; Philippians 3:20,21; 1 Corinthians 15:35-57; Romans 8:11,23,29; 1 John 3:2). For much more on this, see under the heading "The Faithful’s Resurrection Bodies", pp. 114 ff. of my following article:

Hi, Just-a-me. You wrote:

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Thanks! That's some good work.
Would you be one of the first to line up to be downloaded?
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Uploaded? Sure. It's mankind's destiny.

Hi, Just-a-me. You asked, "Are you the 'Jesus is an Anarchist' James Redford?"

Yes. The latest edition of my December 19, 2001 article "Jesus Is an Anarchist" is available below:

In consentaneity with my foregoing article, see also my following ones:

* James Redford, "Societal Sadomasochism", Daily Anarchist Forum, May 29, 2018, https://megalodon.jp/2018-0... , https://archive.is/QalJT , https://web.archive.org/web... .

* James Redford, "Video of Profs. Frank Tipler and Lawrence Krauss's Debate at Caltech: Can Physics Prove God and Christianity?", alt.sci.astro, Message-ID: jghev8tcbv02b6vn3uiq8jmelp7jijluqk@4ax.com , July 30, 2013, https://groups.google.com/f... , https://archive.is/a04w9 .

James Redford jandr0 2 years ago

Jandr0 wrote:

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[Physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology is a proof...]

Yeah, right. Whatever you say.
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God's existence is a mathematical theorem within standard physics. Standard physics is the known laws of physics, viz., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics. This theorem has been given in the form of physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology. These aforestated known physical laws have been confirmed by every experiment conducted to date. Hence, the only way to avoid Tipler's Omega Point Theorem is to reject empirical science. As Prof. Stephen Hawking wrote, "one cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem." (From p. 67 of Stephen Hawking, The Illustrated A Brief History of Time [New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1996; 1st ed., 1988].)