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Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
Post: RE: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
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stephenw Wrote: (2024-05-04, 10:38 PM)
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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: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-05-03, 11:07 PM)
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I would interpret these words as meaning that first, living things perform intelligent information processing. This is obvious for certain living things, n...
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Thread: The UFO/UAP coverup continues
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sbu Wrote: (2024-04-29, 05:47 PM)
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I don’t think the motivation of hiding the development of the nuclear bomb in the middle of world war ii can be compared with the motivation of hiding alien artif...
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Thread: The UFO/UAP coverup continues
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Brian Wrote: (2024-04-29, 12:22 PM)
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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...
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Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
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stephenw Wrote: (2024-04-27, 03:24 PM)
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I am trying to make my peace with the ideas of Bill Dembski. My stance is that living things preform information processing that exhibits intelligence. I m...
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Thread: The UFO/UAP coverup continues
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Brian Wrote: (2024-04-28, 10:12 AM)
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An extremely arrogant assertion followed by justification for wishful thinking.
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As with sbu's reference to "hope", your reference to what I "wish" for is a...
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Thread: The UFO/UAP coverup continues
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sbu Wrote: (2024-04-28, 08:29 AM)
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In other words, if you are dissatisfied with the world as it is, you can pin your hopes on future discoveries, such as faster-than-light travel, that might change...
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Thread: Reddit's latest NDE thread: claims of EEG being unreliable to detect activity
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Sam Parnia is being referred to as a "woo peddler"
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So? You meet all sorts of people if you wander around corners of the internet.
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Thread: The UFO/UAP coverup continues
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sbu Wrote: (2024-04-27, 04:42 PM)
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Do you have any hard facts like radar data to suggest it wasn’t a balloon?
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Yes. For example, from the article:
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Thread: The UFO/UAP coverup continues
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sbu Wrote: (2024-04-27, 02:17 PM)
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This claim might simply involve a balloon with a flashlight, possibly part of a high school experiment. It reminds me of the balloons that were shot down by F-22s...
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Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
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stephenw Wrote: (2024-04-25, 08:54 PM)
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I would describe mind as an abstraction referring to information processing.
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The trouble with that, is that you can either define information as Shannon ...
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Thread: After-Death Communications: New Cases That Bear on the Question of Survival
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| I guess it may depend on what he means by “intrinsically subjective”. If there are veridical elements, I suppose the experience of them is subjective but the information would be objective wouldn’t i...
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Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
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stephenw Wrote: (2024-04-25, 07:34 PM)
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This is a thread pointing to actual prominent thinkers and researchers explaining in detail how RM + NS don't work. I don't get how you come back with a neg...
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Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
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sbu Wrote: (2024-04-24, 12:53 PM)
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You know that I completely disagree with the notion of 'proof' when using this argument. A proof is a logical argument that demonstrates that a proposition is tru...
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Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
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"Life is achingly beautiful and creative once you free yourself from the mind-numbing shackles of neo-Darwinian dogma."
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Mae Wan Ho
https://www.thethirdwayofevolution.com/peopl...
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Thread: After-Death Communications: New Cases That Bear on the Question of Survival
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A spontaneous After-Death Communication (ADC) occurs when a bereaved person unexpectedly perceives the deceased person. This ma...
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Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
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| I'd like to expand a little about the idea of Complex Specified Information (CSI). Typically we think of CSI as the information contained in protein-coding DNA. However try not to think of that as a l...
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Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-04-18, 07:16 PM)
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As for Complex Specified Information (CSI) according to Dembski, I basically agree with his definition, it being "...an "explanatory filter": one can recog...
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Thread: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
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sbu Wrote: (2024-04-21, 05:30 PM)
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For me, the improbability of RM+NS producing complex systems like human biology doesn't necessarily imply direct evidence for discarnate entities. A plausible nat...
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Thread: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
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sbu Wrote: (2024-04-18, 09:48 PM)
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I believe I can succinctly summarize your message as follows: 'Since human DNA couldn’t have evolved by chance, there must be a greater meaning.' It’s a compellin...
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