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tom sarbeck posted an update in the group
Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 8 years, 10 months agoTo learn more about keeping religion out of science classes, visit the National Committee for Science Education at http://www.ncse.com.
(Their URL would be dot org but someone else got it first.)In Dover, PA in 2005, NCSE and ACLU took an xian-majority school board to court and won. The voters then took the xians off the board. PBS did an hour-long…[Read more]
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Davis posted an update in the group
Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 8 years, 10 months ago+1 @ Tom:
Despite mathematicians’ visions of elegance in their productions, the universe obeys no one’s mathematics.
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Tom Sarbeck posted an update in the group
Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 8 years, 10 months agoEric Temple Bell’s four-volume set, “Mathematics: Queen and Servant of Science” impressed me greatly when I read it about sixty years ago while I was earning a degree in mathematics.
However, the queen has lost her throne. She no longer rules mathematics; she serves it. Despite mathematicians’ visions of elegance in their productions, the universe…[Read more]-
It is a beautifully written math book. I view math as a language that helps us to understand and communicate about the universe, but yeah…an incorrect assertion about the universe can be wrong, even if all the math is correct.
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tom sarbeck posted an update in the group
Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 8 years, 10 months agoAny science, but my current favorite is the Electric Universe, aka the Plasma Universe.
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