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Thread: Is Darwinism mathematically impossible?
Post: RE: Is Darwinism mathematically impossible?
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-04-30, 05:00 PM)
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With Intelligent Design it continuously feels like I would need to get, at minimum, a bachelor's degree in biology to even begin to assess the topic.
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Thread: The UFO/UAP coverup continues
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Laird Wrote: (2024-04-28, 11:11 PM)
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Thanks for the detailed explanation.
At the risk of a mistaken online psychoanalysis of my own:
Is it possible that the original loss of hope was such an unpl...
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Thread: The UFO/UAP coverup continues
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Laird Wrote: (2024-04-28, 04:02 PM)
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If it's not prying, can you describe what prompted your sudden switch to realism?
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I think the lack of any real progress made me lose hope. In many ways, ...
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Thread: The UFO/UAP coverup continues
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Laird Wrote: (2024-04-28, 12:24 PM)
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That's a (bad-faith?) misrepresentation of my position. While I am dissatisfied with the world as it is, it is for different reasons than you represent: reasons...
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Thread: The UFO/UAP coverup continues
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Laird Wrote: (2024-04-27, 09:33 PM)
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My reasoning is fine. It's yours which is fallacious:
"According to our current understanding of physical reality, this can't happen, therefore, it isn't happe...
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Thread: The UFO/UAP coverup continues
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Laird Wrote: (2024-04-27, 12:27 PM)
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Mine was a playful joke; yours is a serious albeit sarcastic point. Typoz makes a good point in response: without knowing the purpose of the craft themselves, w...
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Thread: The UFO/UAP coverup continues
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Laird Wrote: (2024-04-26, 06:30 PM)
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Red, white, and green. Huh. Now we just need one of them to leave behind a bowl of pasta and we can call this case closed.
More seriously, this is a very inter...
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Thread: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
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David001 Wrote: (2024-04-21, 11:36 PM)
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So is the very idea of a discarnate being so obnoxious to you that you would rather introduce the concept of an infinite number of universes? My mental versi...
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Thread: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
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David001 Wrote: (2024-04-18, 10:42 PM)
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Well it isn't exactly "there must be a greater meaning", which sounds a bit New Age, it is that some entity must have designed the whole thing in order to ge...
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Thread: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
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David001 Wrote: (2024-04-18, 04:34 PM)
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Well strangely you don't really need to understand biochemistry or biology to explore this subject. Genes are basically digital - C, G, A, T. The chemistry o...
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Thread: SETI chief says US has no evidence for alien technology.
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Silence Wrote: (2024-04-18, 12:35 PM)
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I find the evidence lacking at this stage, but refutations based on thought experiments such as the one above are embarrassing for the debunker. Using pure, ...
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Thread: SETI chief says US has no evidence for alien technology.
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The idea that the government is keeping something like this secret is just totally absurd. There's no motivation to do so.
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To help visualize why, Diamond urges p...
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Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-04-18, 04:51 AM)
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To me "natural law" is just shorthand for reliable patterns of regularity, as there are too many issues with the idea of natural laws. As such the onl...
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Thread: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
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| David, reading your last 2 posts, I didn’t find any disagreement with my viewpoints to comment upon.
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Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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David001 Wrote: (2024-04-15, 11:36 AM)
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This matters because people are more likely to accept parapsychology if they realise just how dodgy 'real' science is regarding things that obviously matter ...
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Thread: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-04-08, 09:23 PM)
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This seems more like a point against Reductionism than for Emergence?
If Chemistry is not reducible to Physics, then even less reason to think Consci...
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Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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Brian Wrote: (2024-04-08, 08:01 PM)
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If you do, so might I. I don't want to be the only one looking for counter evidence to balance the debate only to have it hand-waved away because everybody els...
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Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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stephenw Wrote: (2024-04-08, 04:47 PM)
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I am enjoying your straightforward comments. The case for emergence and its limits is not well understood. If you are serious about exploring the s...
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Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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Brian Wrote: (2024-04-08, 12:41 PM)
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But we cannot use this evidence scientifically because it is so flimsy and debatable. You might not think so because you fill your boots with one-sided "eviden...
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Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-04-07, 10:52 PM)
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There is no evidence that consciousness is an emergent property of the brain.
The so-called evidence usually cited is just correlational, in a sense that...
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