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    Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
Post: RE: Trashing natural selection as a special case.

David001 Wrote: (2024-05-05, 04:39 PM) -- @"Brian"#82 n"#82 Brian and Stephen, can you relate all this to the fact that Stephen already acceded to - that the concept of NS-information only make...
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    Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
Post: RE: Trashing natural selection as a special case.

stephenw Wrote: (2024-05-04, 10:38 PM) -- Well you have me going in two directions.   Do I defend physicality and the empirical data backing math relations?  Or, the kick in the personals with a chal...
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    Thread: Is Darwinism mathematically impossible?
Post: RE: Is Darwinism mathematically impossible?

Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-04-30, 05:00 PM) -- This was quite interesting though as always I find it difficult to grasp the arguments for/against. With Cosmic Fine Tuning there seems to be agree...
Posted by Brian in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-04-30, 05:22 PM
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    Thread: The UFO/UAP coverup continues
Post: RE: The UFO/UAP coverup continues

I have noticed that this thread relies upon two conflicting premises. 1. The military can't be trusted - they are obviously covering up. 2. David Grusch and the whistleblowers can be trusted becau...
Posted by Brian in UFOs (and Related) , 2024-04-29, 12:22 PM
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    Thread: The UFO/UAP coverup continues
Post: RE: The UFO/UAP coverup continues

Laird Wrote: (2024-04-27, 09:33 PM) -- 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 hap...
Posted by Brian in UFOs (and Related) , 2024-04-28, 10:12 AM
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    Thread: Is Darwinism mathematically impossible?
Post: Is Darwinism mathematically impossible?

Very interesting discussion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8U8QV8HNDg
Posted by Brian in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-04-24, 08:47 PM
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    Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
Post: RE: Trashing natural selection as a special case.

nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-04-23, 02:27 PM) -- I agree completely. Well put - you spell it out clearly just what all the evidence shows, as indigestable as it is to materialist Darwinists. I think some ...
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    Thread: AI megathread
Post: RE: AI megathread

Do you think they will be stupid enough to put AI in charge of nuclear weapons eventually? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msW28QRM_y0
Posted by Brian in Other Topics , 2024-04-17, 08:54 PM
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    Thread: AI megathread
Post: RE: AI megathread

AI ‘LooksRater' app blamed for rise in bullying at school https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/24254740.ai-looksrater-app-blamed-rise-bullying-school/ (https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/n...
Posted by Brian in Other Topics , 2024-04-17, 08:45 PM
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    Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
Post: RE: A new Guardian article on near-death experienc...

sbu Wrote: (2024-04-08, 06:41 PM) -- I suspect others might be growing weary of responding to my comments, so I'm considering taking a lengthy break. -- If you do, so might I.  I don't want to be...
Posted by Brian in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-04-08, 08:01 PM
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    Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
Post: RE: A new Guardian article on near-death experienc...

nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-04-07, 10:52 PM) -- And all of this is still trumped by the stubborn existence of a virtual mountain of evidence for paranormal phenomena that clearly indicate the independenc...
Posted by Brian in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-04-08, 12:41 PM
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    Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
Post: RE: A new Guardian article on near-death experienc...

I'm having problems with the reply/quote function so I'm working around it. @"nbtruthman"#90  wrote : Quote: -- Any physical brain function-based theory of NDEs has to contend with the empiric...
Posted by Brian in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-04-03, 07:26 PM
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    Thread: A conventional explanation for the sense of being stared at? Or not.
Post: RE: A conventional explanation for the sense of be...

This phenomenon I have always assumed I must have experienced but I cannot remember one example of it ever having happened.
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    Thread: Does quantum mechanics beckon the end of naturalism?
Post: RE: Does quantum mechanics beckon the end of natur...

nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-03-17, 04:57 PM) -- The way it seems to me to be is that it is apparent that in the subatomic quantum mechanical world at least two of the absolute logic laws are routinely vi...
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    Thread: Does quantum mechanics beckon the end of naturalism?
Post: RE: Does quantum mechanics beckon the end of natur...

nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-03-16, 10:34 PM) --  So the validity of the foundational axioms of logic seems to be conditional rather than absolute. -- I'm not sure I understand you here but the way I se...
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    Thread: The UFO/UAP coverup continues
Post: RE: The UFO/UAP coverup continues

nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-03-14, 01:40 AM) -- You complacently pronounce all the UFO cases I cited plus any and all others as mere "anecdotes" and consequently worthless, just imagination and misinterp...
Posted by Brian in UFOs (and Related) , 2024-03-14, 09:07 PM
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    Thread: Does quantum mechanics beckon the end of naturalism?
Post: RE: Does quantum mechanics beckon the end of natur...

Smaw Wrote: (2024-03-13, 10:03 AM) -- This is what made me suspicious of it. Now I'm very much of the idea that quantum mechanics can undermine a lot of different ways that we percieve the world, but...
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    Thread: AI megathread
Post: $60M Reddit AI deal

I thought we had a general AI thread but I can't find it.  Anyway... Quote: -- Reported $60M Reddit deal signed to train AI models with user data -- Quote: -- Reddit has reportedly sign...
Posted by Brian in Other Topics , 2024-03-12, 10:21 PM
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    Thread: Does quantum mechanics beckon the end of naturalism?
Post: RE: Does quantum mechanics beckon the end of natur...

sbu Wrote: (2024-03-11, 01:29 PM) -- Physics and in particular cosmology are not self-coherent sciences. But god of the gaps arguments are not what I'm looking for in my personal journey. -- When p...
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    Thread: Does quantum mechanics beckon the end of naturalism?
Post: RE: Does quantum mechanics beckon the end of natur...

Even classical physics is stuck as evidence shows the universe must have started in a low entropy state and physicists don't understand how https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89Mq6gmPo0s
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