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    Thread: Is Darwinism mathematically impossible?
Post: RE: Is Darwinism mathematically impossible?

sbu Wrote: (Today, 02:16 PM) -- The biggest mistake one can make is to only read sources one agrees with beforehand and then think that covers everything. If one hasn't seen both sides of the coin, o...
Posted by stephenw in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 6 hours ago
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    Thread: The monumental 1968 Minot ND USA B-52 airborne and ground UFO encounter
Post: RE: The monumental 1968 Minot ND USA B-52 airborne...

nbtruthman Wrote: (Yesterday, 09:23 PM) -- Overall, the analysis shows that the observations were apparently of an actual structured physical object (or at least a large something that reflected rada...
Posted by Sciborg_S_Patel in UFOs (and Related) , Yesterday, 11:02 PM
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    Thread: The monumental 1968 Minot ND USA B-52 airborne and ground UFO encounter
Post: RE: The monumental 1968 Minot ND USA B-52 airborne...

I don't see why this is definitely someone else's hardware? For myself, I think it does show something of interest but I don't know if one can say it's definitely a craft made on another planet/dim...
Posted by Sciborg_S_Patel in UFOs (and Related) , Yesterday, 06:57 PM
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    Thread: Is Darwinism mathematically impossible?
Post: RE: Is Darwinism mathematically impossible?

sbu Wrote: (2024-04-30, 07:37 PM) -- I feel the same. I have tried to get into it a few times, also reading the arguments of some christian biologists who disagree with the Discovery Institute (just ...
Posted by Sciborg_S_Patel in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-05-05, 09:33 PM
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    Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
Post: RE: Trashing natural selection as a special case.

nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-04-27, 04:31 PM) -- In the latter case your credible alternative natural undirected explanation has to cover all the apparently designed highly organized information with impo...
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    Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
Post: RE: Trashing natural selection as a special case.

David001 Wrote: (2024-04-30, 05:25 PM) -- I'd rather hoped you might have reacted to this - or maybe you are trying to persuade someone from TTW to argue this topic! I'd enjoy debating with someone l...
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    Thread: The UFO/UAP coverup continues
Post: RE: The UFO/UAP coverup continues

sbu Wrote: (2024-04-28, 01:10 PM) -- Okay, I will apologize for labeling your motivation as 'hope.' -- Thanks, and apology accepted. sbu Wrote: (2024-04-28, 01:10 PM) -- When I was a kid, I was...
Posted by Laird in UFOs (and Related) , 2024-04-28, 04:02 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: 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: Even After $100 Billion, Self-Driving Cars Are Going Nowhere
Post: RE: Even After $100 Billion, Self-Driving Cars Are...

Quick update on Tesla's newest software update to its self driving tech. They pushed out a revamp (supposedly based on the emerging LLM tech) to all Tesla owners and gave a free month's worth of "s...
Posted by Silence in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-04-16, 02:35 PM
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    Thread: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
Post: RE: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry

sbu Wrote: (2024-04-09, 11:18 AM) -- My point is that it's an ontological assumption that all chemical properties follow from physical properties. This assumption underlies the reductionist approach ...
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    Thread: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
Post: RE: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry

sbu Wrote: (2024-04-09, 11:18 AM) -- My point is that it's an ontological assumption that all chemical properties follow from physical properties. This assumption underlies the reductionist approach ...
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    Thread: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
Post: RE: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry

I think it is important to realise that it should in principle be possible to determine this structure by some sort of iterative procedure- varying the positions of the atoms and repeating the calcula...
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    Thread: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
Post: RE: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry

sbu Wrote: (2024-04-08, 09:38 PM) -- Strong emergence is not solely about consciousness. Standing in stark contrast to reductionism—an unproven perspective borne from the triumphs of physics in the l...
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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) -- Thank you for your kind words, StephenW. I suspect others might be growing weary of responding to my comments, so I'm considering taking a lengthy break. :) Re...
Posted by stephenw in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-04-08, 08:13 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...

Max_B Wrote: (2024-04-08, 05:05 PM) -- The point I was making concerned your chemistry claims. I was suggesting that failure to predict poorly isolated macro molecular structures using quantum chemis...
Posted by stephenw in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-04-08, 07:58 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, 01:02 PM) -- I totally agree. Please believe me, I really hope for the immortal soul for myself and everybody else. The threshold of evidence for convincing me is just not qui...
Posted by stephenw in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-04-08, 04:47 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...

"..information acquired by observation" The foundation of empirical information is that it is measurable.  Subjective experiences of Psi should be embraced, each event can create data points in the...
Posted by stephenw in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-04-03, 11:52 PM
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