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PopeBeanie started the topic Fairly Random Tidbits in the forum
Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 6 years, 8 months agoCaterpillars of the peppered moth perceive color through their skin to match their body color to the background
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_Robert_ posted an update in the group
Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 7 years, 4 months agoGenesis Revisited: A Scientific Creation Story
December 1, 2001
To the Citizens of Kansas (along with those from Ohio, Georgia, Michigan, and a dozen other states contemplating the teaching of “Intelligent Design” creationism as a “balance” to the theory of evolution in public school science classes), I present you with a small literary samplin…[Read more] -
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Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 7 years, 4 months agocringeworthy….Evolution is “Darwinisim”. It is a failure of the education system. Lets throw all sorts if unrelated film clips so morons think it’s real.
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tom sarbeck posted an update in the group
Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 7 years, 7 months agoPB, scifi fans have wondrously productive imaginations.
AI’s taking over the universe is a stretch. Its making a repeating big bang rips the “fabric” to shreds little larger than molecules.-
Indeed it’s a stretch, but I can’t rule out that several billion years of AI wouldn’t trump it.
On a related topic–but yeah, a tangent… similar to Fermi’s Paradox, we might ask why we’ve not yet seen evidence of alien AI. IMO, the technology to *widely* propagate self-assembling AI bots would be infinitely more feasible than the glossy-eyed…[Read more]
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[Drat! PB cannot fix his inevitable typos unless they’re in a Forum topic post.]
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PopeBeanie posted an update in the group
Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 7 years, 7 months agoA related post from a few years ago:
http://www.thinkatheist.com/profiles/blogs/cosmological-natural-selection-cnsMy long story short, assume AI ultimately takes over the universe, and devises a way to make a big bang repeat in a way that increases the chances of intelligent life evolving, perhaps even sooner than it did in this universe.
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Clearsky posted an update in the group
Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 7 years, 7 months ago -
Clearsky posted an update in the group
Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 7 years, 7 months agoWhat’s the deal with the ” Finely Tuned Universe ” theory ? Seems a lot of big cheeses in cosmology are talking about it?
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Clearsky posted an update in the group
Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 7 years, 7 months agoCan Science explain everything?
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic What is your favourite book on evolution? in the forum
Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 7 years, 7 months agoSimon – I was at a lecture by Christof Koch yesterday on the future of consciousness. I will post more on his ideas later but here is a video you might like.
See also the link for Consciousness Redux.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic What is your favourite book on evolution? in the forum
Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 7 years, 7 months agoHere’s an interesting Facebook post from just now by Steve Taylor, “transpersonal psychologist” (and psychology professor at Manchester University). You may or may not find him slightly out there: I prefer the term “speculative”.
I’ve been doing a lot of reading about evolution over the last few days (for an article I’m writing) and have learned…
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Simon Paynton started the topic What is your favourite book on evolution? in the forum
Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 7 years, 7 months agoMine is “The Making of the Fittest – DNA and the ultimate forensic record of evolution” by Sean B Carroll. “By delving deep into the DNA record, Carroll reveals not just how the fittest survive but also how they are made.”
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tom sarbeck replied to the topic Working Sciences, Simple to Advanced in the forum
Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 7 years, 8 months agoAh, the People of Science videos. Thanks, Robert. I have seen and enjoyed several of them.
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tom sarbeck replied to the topic Working Sciences, Simple to Advanced in the forum
Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 7 years, 8 months agoFlavivirus implications are more “frightening” to theists than to atheists; we accept natural selection and its consequences.
Think MMO, means, motives, opportunities. The current crop of theists in America’s government seem determined to reduce the means and opportunities to cope with the consequences.
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tom sarbeck replied to the topic Working Sciences, Simple to Advanced in the forum
Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 7 years, 8 months agoScience requires both deduction and induction.
One without the other — such as Albert Einstein’s thought experiments, or mathematics only, or theoretical physics — can and has resulted in flawed science and vast waste of taxpayers’ money.
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic Working Sciences, Simple to Advanced in the forum
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