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tom sarbeck posted an update in the group
Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 8 years, 4 months agoReg, when did consensus replace evidence and reason?
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer posted an update in the group
Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 8 years, 4 months agoIt is difficult (impossible) to imagine. While we don’t yet know exactly how it happened it is the consensus that all matter and energy in the Universe once existed in a volume less than one-trillionth the size of the period at the end of this sentence.
Page one of “Astrophysics for people in a hurry” (a good xmas gift) by Neil deGrasee Tyson.
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tom sarbeck posted an update in the group
Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 8 years, 4 months ago“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.”
— Richard Dawkins. (Thanks. Reg.)Yeah, and even some atheists have not yet kicked the faith habit.
Imagine, if you can, a particle too tiny for you to see. And then imagi…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Past Life Regression in the forum
Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 8 years, 5 months agoI think in a past life I was once a ladies field hockey pitch on a wet Sunday, on finals day. It was also the death of me. At least I really hope so.
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Strega replied to the topic Past Life Regression in the forum
Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 8 years, 5 months agoOh I like that, Robert! What an excellent excuse!
”I didn’t turn up to the meeting because I was reviewing my calendar in my head from a past life”
”I thought I’d paid you back, but it must have been in a past life”
“No, officer, I think you’re mixing me up with someone from a past life of yours”
I will try it out and keep you posted!
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_Robert_ replied to the topic Past Life Regression in the forum
Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 8 years, 5 months agoSo this news story reporter busted a palm reader bigtime….she was wrong about everything. Her excuse…she had inadvertently read one of his “past lives” and offered a refund…It could happen, right…
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer started the topic Past Life Regression in the forum
Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 8 years, 5 months ago
I watched some early morning TV recently and tuned into an episode of “The Doctors”. I did not know much about the show having only ever seen it in parts before then. I was not really paying much heed to it until I heard them say that “coming up next” there will be a segment on the merits of “past life regression” as a form of therapy. Goo…[Read more]
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tom sarbeck posted an update in the group
Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 8 years, 6 months agoRIP the Standard Model–the Big Bang with Its Many Untested and Untestable Hypotheses
“It’s a mystery to me how comets work at all.”
–Donald Brownlee, principal investigator of NASA’s Stardust MissionNothing in the observed Universe has surprised astronomers and astrophysicists more than comets. Their “dirty snowball” hypothesis, for decades the…[Read more]
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Thanks, Tom – you always seem to give me a healthy skepticism for ‘scientific announcements’.
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Strega, when government departments have done what Congress funded them to do, Congress cuts their budgets and they have to reduce their payrolls. This time it’s NASA’s turn.
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Tom Sarbeck replied to the topic Human social norms of sexuality and gender in the forum
Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 8 years, 6 months agoSinging?
That’s miles better than later telling him she has a headache.
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Strega replied to the topic Human social norms of sexuality and gender in the forum
Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 8 years, 6 months ago@davis In Fiji, at the tribe gatherings the men speak and the women are not permitted to address the meeting, other than by whispering into their husbands ear and having him speak. Sometimes the men do not convey their woman’s words. If this happens, the woman starts to sing. Men are not permitted to speak whilst a woman is singing. Som…[Read more]
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Davis replied to the topic Human social norms of sexuality and gender in the forum
Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 8 years, 6 months agoWhy do humans have their particular social norms regarding sexuality and gender?
There is no social norms rearding sexuality and gender for humans. They vary greatly from place to place and over time. Even within the same country there are enormous differences per culture, class, education, profession etc. In some parts of the world women…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton started the topic Human social norms of sexuality and gender in the forum
Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason. 8 years, 6 months agoHow does this stack up?
Why do humans have their particular social norms regarding sexuality and gender?
- monogamy
- control and dominance of females by males at a cultural and societal level, and double-standards between male and female norms
- widespread prohibition on (especially male) homosexuality
Human sexual behaviour differs from…[Read more]
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Strega replied to the topic The Three-Body Problem (sci-fi) in the forum
Bookish atheists 8 years, 6 months agoThanks, private! I’ll give them a spin 🙂
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private started the topic The Three-Body Problem (sci-fi) in the forum
Bookish atheists 8 years, 7 months agoThis is a trilogy, written by Cixin Liu, an author “beloved” by Chinese readers. I found it seriously nerdy at times (well, I am a technopeasant). Did me good to exercise a few brain cells. Reminded me of Isaac Asimov due to the affection and depth of the way this author dealt with sensitive human problems. Hint: space is much more dang…[Read more]
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private replied to the topic Genius of P.G. Wodehouse in the forum
Bookish atheists 8 years, 7 months ago@Belle ….. It can happen to any of us unwary ones. I only accidentally stumbled on Laurie doing Wooster on TV. By the way, none of us deserves to live if we let this bookish forum die.
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There is plenty of evidence and good reason(s) to accept it as our best (current) understanding of the Universe. I will do up a post on it soon.
Thanks, Reg. 88 years are a bunch and happily I’m in good health.
Re my snarky Q, don’t do a post on evidence. Instead, one on your understanding of when consensus replaced evidence. My understanding follows.
It happened in the decades after 1957 when the USSR put a man into orbit. The Cold War was going strong and America’s leaders reali…[Read more]