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Causes As (Local) Oomph


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    7 Replies

Sci, 2019-02-24, 07:31 PM

Causes As (Local) Oomph

R. Tallis



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Consider a paradigm example of causation: one billiard ball bumping into another (Cause C) and causing the latter to move (Effect E). There is, in fact, no gap between C and E,

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Necessity in Nature


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    No Replies

Sci, 2019-02-24, 07:08 PM

Necessity in Nature

Anaheed Najmzadeh

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The qualities which should support a belief in necessity in nature rather expound its  poverty of benefits, reinforcing the argument for refraining

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To Be Refuted at Each Century: James Ward and Alfred North Whitehead


Connected philosophy forum (metaphysics, ontology, theology, ethics)    1 Replies

Sci, 2019-02-22, 05:49 PM

To Be Refuted at Each Century: James Ward and Alfred North Whitehead

Interview of [url=http://www.philosophie.unibe.ch/ueber_uns/personen/basile/index_ger.html]Pierfrancesco Basile[/url

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Future Photon Experiment


Psi research forum (ESP and psychokinesis)    5 Replies

Chris, 2019-02-22, 10:30 AM

Julia Mossbridge, Loren Carpenter and Daniel P. Sheehan* are raising funds for an experiment to test the hypothesis that the interference pattern in a single-photon double-slit experiment is influenced by the future duration of the illumination. The idea seems to be that the photons are somehow inte

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Divine Action and a Juggler Metaphor


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Sci, 2019-02-21, 11:06 PM

Divine Action and a Juggler Metaphor

by Steve Petermann

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Now an interesting thing about this view is that what is usually called supernaturalism is unnecessary.  There is no need

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The multiverse: science's assisted suicide?


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    13 Replies

nbtruthman, 2019-02-21, 02:11 AM

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For many people today, post-modern science is more of a quest to express an identity as believer in science, irrespective of evidence. Cosmologist Paul Steinhardt got a sense of this in 2014,

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A Different Kind of Theory of Everything


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    2 Replies

Sci, 2019-02-20, 08:40 PM

A Different Kind of Theory of Everything

by Natalie Wolchover

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“One of the amazing characteristics of nature is this variet

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Physics of Autonomous Biological Information


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    3 Replies

Sci, 2019-02-20, 05:45 AM

Physics of Autonomous Biological Information

Howard H. Pattee



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The general concept of information does not belong in the category of universal and inexorable physical law

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JRR Tolkien - On Fairy Stories


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    1 Replies

Sci, 2019-02-19, 02:39 AM

JRR Tolkien - On Fairy Stories

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The human mind is capable of forming mental images of things not actually present. The faculty
of conceiving the images is (or was) naturally called Imagination. But in recent time

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Less than Amazing


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    5 Replies

Kamarling, 2019-02-14, 09:36 PM

My Facebook feed pointed me to a new post by Michael Prescott after he picked up a copy of "[url=https://www.amazon.com/Encycloped

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