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Making Better Sense of Quantum Mechanics


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    4 Replies

Sci, 2025-01-08, 05:22 AM

Making Better Sense of Quantum Mechanics

N. David Mermin

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Abstract. We still lack any consensus about what one is actually talking about as one uses quantum mechanics. There is a gap between the abstract terms in which the theory is couched a

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Farina vs Casey Luskin


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    7 Replies

Sci, 2025-01-08, 12:11 AM

@Laird and @Ninshub can decide if this thread should be merged into the larger thread about Discovery Institute.

I just don't want to lose focus on the actual arguments, and I think going video by video allows discussion to center on particular facts.

I'd like this thread to focus s

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Rejecting the Multiverse: Elie Feder and Aaron Zimmer ~ Evolution News


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Valmar, 2025-01-07, 11:52 AM

https://evolutionnews.org/2025/01/reject...on-zimmer/

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It can be tempting to dismiss the idea of the multiverse as unobservable fantasy. But what happens wh

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How mysticism goes beyond the limits of reason


Connected philosophy forum (metaphysics, ontology, theology, ethics)    No Replies

Sci, 2025-01-07, 01:14 AM

How mysticism goes beyond the limits of reason 

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An in

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Nature's Hidden Intelligence: Morphic Fields


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    1 Replies

Sci, 2025-01-04, 12:06 AM



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Can morphic resonance help explain the problem of missing heritability and why memories have not been found in the brain? In this interview, Dr. Rupert Sheldrake discusses with Natalia Vorontsova his theory of morphic fie

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The cosmic chasm


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

Sci, 2025-01-03, 07:56 PM

The cosmic chasm

Pedro G Ferreira 

Quote:Physics as we know it is elegant and exquisitely accurate. It tells almost nothing about the deepest riddles of the Universe

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These observations are

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Exploding the Big Bang


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

Sci, 2025-01-03, 07:42 PM

Exploding the Big Bang

Daniel Linford

Quote:It was thought that science could tell us about the origins of the Universe. Today that great endeavour is in serious doubt.

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The q

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theme selection


Feedback and announcements    1 Replies

Jim_Smith, 2025-01-03, 02:41 AM

I don't know if this is realistic to ask for but .... 

Would it be possible to allow theme selection to be controlled by a cookie (or something like that) so that a user could use rondo on a cell phone but mybb default on a desktop computer?

Thanks


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"Exposing Discovery Institute": video series by "Professor" Dave Farina


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    133 Replies

Laird, 2025-01-02, 01:55 AM

The Discovery Institute is referenced fairly often on our board. Often, too, it is criticised and dismissed as a source. Until watching this video series by Dave Farina, I had considered those dismissals to be a case of the genetic fallacy. After watching the series, it now seems reasonable to dismi

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Ancient, or at least pre-modern, apparition cases?


Ghost, poltergeist, and spirit forum    No Replies

Sci, 2024-12-31, 06:17 PM

Do you believe in ghosts? Some ancient philosophers did.

by "Gravedigger"

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Pliny the Younger (61–112 AD), a lawyer, author and magistrate of Ancient Rome, had also given accounts of ghosts in his letters:
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“What particularly

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