This typically results in incorrect interpretation of the data, for the express purpose of misrepresenting it.

The purpose of misrepresenting the data, is typically driven by no credible data being available to use instead.

So, finding that stars formed in better…[Read more]

…and, of course, what we observe,  is what is LEFT after everything that was less stable…is gone.

This is part of entropy…anything left to happen, happens, with the most likely to happen tending to happen before whatever is less l…[Read more]

Keeping humans alive is hard enough under those conditions,  let alone happy, etc.

I do know that earth has an expiration date though, and that if we do not learn to colonize other planets,  eventually in other solar systems,  etc, we will go extinct,  and, perhaps the only known life in our galaxy,  etc.

Early colonies in Amer…[Read more]

There’s just an awful lot of details to work out, and, that takes time.

I am all in favor of the Muskians leaving earth to colonize mars though, as soon as possible… and, preferably, not coming back.

If those are…[Read more]

That is because I like funny lines, and, while I appreciate the gold mine that the God Father, etc, provide, overall, I have a soft spot for well written comedy.

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I used to like cats, but, then the local Korean restaurant closed for some reason, and, well, I lost my preference for cats.

Other Korean restaurants opened, with different menus though.

Anyway, I prefer dogs now.

You know how it is, some people are cat people, and, some people are dog…[Read more]

The universe did not spring from nothing, or nothingness, it simply always existed.

Matter and energy, as two forms of the same thing, cannot be created or destroyed.   We know it was in a hot dense state about 13.8 or so billion…[Read more]

For example, it seems we all have ideas about how things work, but when trying to find ways to tie that to the free will question, it becomes a tangled mess, because it is a made up concept… a construct.

That…[Read more]

Lost a son and both parents, and, two brothers, in a short period… so, it has been a bit tough lately.

Did I miss anything?

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Is a pack of hyenas “weaker” than a lion?

They tend to win in a fight at least, so, it would seem the…[Read more]

God is the answer to what happens to where my lap goes when I stand up.

He is a mistake made by primates to help explain what they could not understand.

We are the force that created gods, a mistake.  Correction of that mistake eventually lead to understanding evolution, relativity, and the math involved in bill calculations at…[Read more]

Cruelty may involve justice, say, a man tortures and kills your son, and, the sentence is you get to get even.

IS it “wrong” to inflict pain upon the torturer in retribution?

IS punishment for a crime always wrong, as the party being “punished” is suffering (If you do it right at least, etc)?

I like to distinguish…[Read more]

Most purposeful conversations about religion in this context seem to involve someone finding out, casually, that I do not believe what they believe…and, their disbelief in my disbelief.

They then tend to…[Read more]

Its mostly about shifting the benefit to the insurance industries, towards the patients.

The premise though, that you postulate, implies that a religious god DOES provide morality.

This is simply not the case.

When HUMANS wrote down what they believed to be morals (How bad can you beat a slave before you are being unfair, etc), they simply ascribed what THEY felt to be moral, at the time they wrote it, to what god…[Read more]

As for “an atheist morality”, that would be akin to a “stamp collector, or, a not a stamp collector’s”, morality, etc…in that there is no moral code required to not believe in gods.

That said, if you simply look at prison statistics, say, in the US for example, theists are over…[Read more]

As its formatted now, the site discussions are too hard to follow, and even being able to have posts in simple oldest to youngest order/top-down, would help/be a massive improvement.

I looked for…[Read more]

Current entropy minus prior entropy = amount of increased entropy

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Enjoying the trip.

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