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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

Here is a clip from the show “Miracles for Sale” by Derren Brown.

Haha, right after that clip, youtube fed me an ad for an “acupuncture pen“. Isn’t science wonderful!? (I am just kidding here about the ‘science’, folks.)

Davis wrote:

It’s not that hard to motivate people into believing incredible things based on a good show and huge smiles and confidence.

Oh man, visions of Scientology popped up just now.

Robert_ wrote:

Can Islam integrate with western society. Not according to this expert

He seems like a whack job to me. I watched the whole video, which was so full of drooling bias and just-so certainty I couldn’t decide which of of his “facts” were true. His PhD is in physics, not religion or Islam, and his audience sounded like they were there…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:

Are we to assume that government workers are tops when in comes to technology?

The author never said “government workers”, but publicly funded policy research. I don’t have a problem with the rest of what you wrote in that paragraph. Still, he wasn’t helpful in spelling out who should decide whom should be paid to do the work, u…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:

Please explain why is it so “ironic”?

What I mean regards how the far Christian right can ignore the establishment clause of the constitution, and promote Christianity. I.e. Sharia law “bad” but Christian Law “good”.

It’s just wrong to fight Islam, in the name of Christianity. The higher road to take is humanism.

Unseen wrote:

But isn’t randomness just a way of describing the behavior of things we don’t understand?

They say quantum level probabilities are purely random, but I’d like for them to find something non-random underneath someday in order to be able to explain it. So yeah, maybe we just don’t understand that yet.

Also, one could, in theory, tra…[Read more]

And it seems our three branches of government might look increasingly kindly toward Christian tradition in government and law. An ironic, preemptive move again the supposed arrival of Sharia Law?

Simon Paynton wrote:

If we think of “conscience” as “self-governance on behalf of the group” then God fills the place-holder of the ultimate arbiter of moral matters.

That makes sense to me as an explanation for why God was invented.

Doh! I see typos, at least, and some missing clarity. I’ll adjust the post after seeing the Feynman link.

@SimonPaynton Sieve of Eratosthenes is what I was trying to explain that costs too much programming-wise and in the computer resources it requires. And the more efficient sieve algorithms mentioned in that same wikipedia article make my head…[Read more]