Into the Night (06-21-2021), PostmodernProphet (06-22-2021)
Into the Night (06-21-2021), PostmodernProphet (06-22-2021)
Well thought out post and agreed.
You nailed it with the problem in the US of people how reject credible scientific evidence. Notice that those who reject scientific evidence are doing so for religious and/or political purposes and not using the brains God gave them.
HCQ. LOL
Note that Darth had his infamous 61 thread closed out of embarrassment although he never apologized for the tons of manure he spread in that thread.
The vast majority of people who get it have mild [tempted to say flu-like] and even non-existent symptoms.
Facts and stuff.
You have a problem with Dr Birx lol? Never would have guessed it.
I guarantee it lol.
But why is the death toll so low? Could it be possible we’re dealing with a virus that is less lethal than the common flu?
https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...67#post3657367
https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...63#post3538463
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Cypress (06-21-2021)
For sure.
I do not categorically rule out the possibility of providential design..
I am starting to have my doubts about the theist's claims on fine tuning, however.
And I do not think physicists have really done a good job articulating the uncertainties about the big bang theory.
We literally cannot observe time and creation past the veil of the cosmic microwave background radiation, which limits our direct observation of the observable universe at about 380,000 years after the big bang. It will be interesting to in the future if any experimental tests will be possible to infer the existence of a multiverse. Which would put us right back to what natural philosophers thought 200 years ago -- time and space are infinite.
Somebody in the rightwing media trotted out that fallacy of authority argument 20 years ago, and science deniers have been running with it ever since.
Expertise and scientific consensus matter.
And you put your faith in scientific consensus every time you go to the doctor, take a prescription drug, or give a blood sample.
You are your buddies on this thread have denied carbon isotope dating, denied evolution by natural selection, denied the evidence for evolution of anatomically modern homo sapiens from archaic human subspecies.
That is not healthy scientific skepticism. That is dogmatic denial.
And when painted into a corner you demand science offer you an impossible level of proof -aka, complete DNA samples from homo erectus.
There is enough evidence now to say with an extremely high level of confidence that homo sapiens evolved from anatomically archaic forms of hominids. It would easily pass muster in a court of law, even over your demands for a complete genome map of homo habilis.
F is a force of acceleration vector defined by the product of mass and acceleration.
F in the universal law of gravitation can be replaced by ma. The small m's on either side of the equation cancel out, resulting in a direct calculation of gravitational acceleration, using the universal law of gravity and the second law of mechanics.
AProudLefty (06-21-2021)
Maybe in a civil suit where the standard of evidence is low. A competent trial lawyer would have a field day dismantling some of evolutions more ambitious claims.
And that’s a tired trope about denying science and science consensus as if all claims of science are created equal. We’ve already been through that and none of your fellow ‘believers’ would risk falling into the croc pit over ‘the high level of confidence’ in the hypothesis that man is descended from an anatomically inferior subhuman. They would tap dance, invoke off the wall theoretical physics analogies and do everything but answer a simple question.
Doesn’t say much for their confidence.
Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017
Your analogy of a civil lawsuit indicates you think it is less than 50 percent likely that anatomically modern homo sapiens evolved from archaic human species.
Wow.
That is a position only the most die hard science denier and Liberty University graduates would adopt.
Since you are talking odds now, what do you think the odds are that a providential creator created several dozen human species independently during a miraculous creation event and having no genetic evolutionary links bewtween them?
Micawber (06-21-2021)
But could robots ever reproduce? This, undoubtedly, forms a pillar of “life” as shared by all natural organisms. A team of researchers from the UK and the Netherlands have recently demonstrated a fully automated technology to allow physical robots to repeatedly breed, evolving their artificial genetic code over time to better adapt to their environment. Arguably, this amounts to artificial evolution. Child robots are created by mixing the digital “DNA” from two parent robots on a computer.
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ure-technology
That's fine with me. Be faithful to your religion, leave it out of things like public schools where we all may have different
faiths or none at all. Science is not a religion, science is not a faith. Make all the skeptical snarky observations you would like.
I'd rather that not be a trojan horse to insert the cloud guy as a reasonable option for understanding the natural world.
Is there an "unnatural world" that interacts with this one? Who knows, but the scientific method doesn't shed light on that idea.
It certainly undermines those beliefs as time goes along since "the age of reason" on forward.
I won't ever say you don't have the right to say or think "God did that," unless you are in my kid's classroom.
would risk falling into the croc pit over ‘the high level of confidence’ in the hypothesis that man is descended from an anatomically inferior subhuman.
Anatomically inferior? I'm not even sure I understand what that means. If you are an animal and alive, you are anatomically equal by Darwinian measure.
I sure fucking would, so long as there was an upside reason to do it. I'd do that for $20 or more. It's an absolute fact. .0000001 risk of getting eaten
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