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So what are your thoughts on the way Israeli police treated prostesters vs the way the young people peacefully protesting Wall St. were dealt with?

Russel's flippant comment was simply incorrect. There is a great deal of agreement in science but also a great deal of disagreement; consider the grand controversies in the scientific community over the multiverse and over the origin of the universe. There are innumerable lesser competing...

One of the simplest scams the Chinese worked on Westerners when they first opened their doors to foreign investors was "Now that you've invested a billion $'s we regret to inform you that the government official who authorized your commitment was not representing the proper gov't agency. We're...

Thanx.

Yes, religion should not be taught in science class; religion should be taught in religious class to students who opt for relgious instruction. On the other hand in instances where the science is really scientific speculation such as it often is in matters dealing with the ultimate origins of...

You have me all wrong, FT. I'm not a bible thumper. If I seem to be defending religion it's because I occassionally argue against glib dismissals of Abrahamic religions on the grounds of logical inconsistency or text contradictions. This is not even a key issue with me since I think the bible is...

Wiki: "Other complicating factors, such as the energy density of the vacuum and macroscopic quantum effects, are DIFFICULT TO RECONCILE WITH THERMODYNAMICAL MODELS, making ANY PREDICTIONS of large-scale thermodynamics extremely difficult." Also consider that Dark Energy and Dark Matter are...

Understatement if there ever was one. If entropy is the overarching principle how did we go from post Bang plasma to highly organized galactic systems containing millions of planetary systems and at least one planet teeming with life? We know there's entropy but is sufficiently unopposed...

Sounds like Canada should develop nukes - should take about 2 weeks to get A-bomb, 2 months to get H-bomb.

Russia vs China over Mongolia - situated between Russia and China, home to vast mineral wealth, and population only 4 million. + Russia vs Canada over Arctic with most of Canada's forces being Americans fighting under Canadian colors.

If you knew anything about science you'd know that it originated as a branch of philosophy. You would also know that such basic concepts absolutely necessary to science as cause and effect, objectivity, laws of nature and natural principles, coherentism, theoretical parsimony, and...

Mumbo-jumbo? Funny, too funny. Oh, well.. I tried. If my posts are coming across as mumbo-jumbo to you it may be more a reflection on you than on me.

Fair question. I'll have to get back to it later though. Stuff to do.

OK, Stu - let's work together to pinpoint exactly where it is you're going wrong.. Apparently you can't accept the metaphysical as a meaningful concept. The metaphysical is, at the very least, Kant's world of things-in-themselves. It's that which is subvenient to our idiosyncratic...

So the genie grants the Frenchman, the German, and the Russian one wish each.... Frenchman: I want to be the world's greatest lover. German: I want to rule the world. Russian: I hope my neighbour's cow dies. Well, there you have it - the final word on Russian mentality. No wonder...

Excellent post. Funny. If you authored this I salute you. But I still believe. I should clarify here that I think of the biblical version of God as metaphor but not necessarily untrue. I suppose I'm basically pantheistic-panentheistic but don't believe God and nature are necessarily either...

I'm attacking science as THE way of knowing rather than A way. I agree, science is the best way of meaningfully modelling the immediately knowable phenomenal reality we actually experience but irrelevant and inapplicable to the metaphysical subvenience at which God would exist.

A devious question! Doesn't it seem odd to you that a very significant minority of scientists believe in God? Are these believers uneducated simpletons? In any case, it doesn't seem odd at all that scientists, theist or atheist, can't find scientific evidence for God because they spend...