Tom Sarbeck

Only Mother Nature? she? mistress?

Take a bite from your tongue, sexist pig! : >)

Davis: “…nature is horribly cruel….”

Doubting that nature is either kind or cruel, now wary of saying “Nature doesn’t care”, and wanting to avoid forms of “to be” as in “Nature is indifferent”, I will close with “Nature lacks empathy.”

PB, for the want of a nail a horse was lost, …no, for the want of an adequate computer the moderator was lost, for the want of the original post at the top of each page a reminder of the thread was lost, and for the want of a reminder of the thread the participants lost their heads.

U, I will look for your “A Hitchhikers Guide to Philosophy”.

Ditto, jake.

A decades-ago linguistics course instructor spoke (in a way that sounded to me like he was bragging) of human language having grammar and syntax.

I asked if he was saying our having such a language makes us superior to other animals.

Right there in class he got really pissed off.

Doubting that I would learn much from him, I…[Read more]

Unseen wrote “…a way of intuiting the world….”

Which subtly abstracts humankind out of the game.

Ditto for “…a way of describing….” instead of “…a way humankind describes….”

A too-clever philosopher’s trick.

In Wikipedia, search on “kitz” (or on “Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District”) for the 2005 outcome of an attempt by the Discovery Institute to disguise creationism as 1) intelligent design, and then as 2) science. The article links to the court’s 165-page ruling and cites from it.

And yes, disappointed xians verbally attacked the “activist”…[Read more]

PB, I’m okay with moving the off-topic comments to their own, separate topic.

Earle is not an atheist and appears to be proselytizing, and plagiarizing.

–Edit by PopeBeanie–

Thanks Tom! I’m moving the off-topic posts to “A little something…” as we read and write…

Simon, do a search on “what defines speciation” and you will see how species differ.

Then, let Earle be Earle.

My sincere appreciation to Davis, Beanie and Robert for disposing of Earle “bowling ball” Sanborn’s issues, and to Simon for trying.

Earle, if you have yet to reproduce, be kinder to your head.

When did fear arise among descendants? What advantage did it offer?

Ditto for anger?

This discussion, with the several ways Strega said the universe is indifferent to the forms of life it harbors, supports a hypothesis that women are better suited than men to govern.

Why? Men talk too much and say too little.

jake, I’m not hindu. I’m also not religious. I am however a male teacher.

jake, you will someday free yourself from your own torture chamber (in which you are the only torturer).

Strega, thank you.

FYI:

“If the red shifts are a Doppler shift . . . the  observations as they stand lead to the anomaly of a closed universe, curiously small and dense, and, it may be added, suspiciously young.

“On the other hand, if red shifts are not Doppler effects, these anomalies disappear and the region observed appears as a small, homogeneous, but insi…[Read more]

Sheeesh, all this because Georges LeMaitre wanted to support Genesis and fancied that he did it when he used the “anomaly” PART of what Edwin Hubble said.

I understand that two decades later he asked the Pope to stop bragging.

Mathematics has no need for anything physical.*(see below)

That people use it to model physical phenomena gives them the burden of proof: Can they rely on their model, and if so how far?

Atheists who allow anything metaphysical into the discussion aren’t paying attention.

Philosophers who haven’t studied the universe are unwise to take part in…[Read more]