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pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.Kepler derived ellipses empirically from carefully studying the orbit of Mars in particular. He was trying to fit the orbit into a... -
pood replied to the thread Define God.Once again, you have no grounds to assign a probability to so-called fine-tuning, but the the larger point is that positing an...
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pood replied to the thread Define God.Against all odds?? The universe is, the way that it is, regardless of whether there was a creator. Self-organization of matter into...
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pood replied to the thread Define God.No, it doesn’t. Suppose I take hunks of undifferentiated metal and using maths and engineering, fine-tune it to produce a car. If the...
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pood replied to the thread Define God.I’ll start with this, and how it completely misses the point. A vast and ancient universe that is mostly vacuum may indeed be what...
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Didn't realize this Organizing Mind did such masterful work in making the universe orderly and fine-tuned. > possibility of an asteroid...
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Yes. Not at all; It fails to explain anything at all. In the "mindless matter" model, we assume the spontaneous existence of nothing...
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pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.Kepler discovered ellipses empirically. Hume supported radical empiricism — a philosophical stance. The Copernican system had the same...
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pood replied to the thread Define God.It is odd that most of the universe is a howling, empty vacuum of quantum fields. That there are innumerable planets, moons, and other...
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pood replied to the thread Define God.This looks interesting,
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Sounds like grunt work.
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pood replied to the thread Do you think any aliens exist in the universe?.The evidence suggests it is flat at very large scales, which suggests but does not prove it is infinite. If it is not, it must have...
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pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.John Dalton, who introduced atomic theory to chemistry, specifically acknowledged his debt to the blind philosopher John Gough. There...
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pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.Another philosophical thought experiment was Hugh Everett’s 1957 paper on the relative state formulation. I guess Steve would find that...
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pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.Two of the most remarkable insights in scientific history were from philosophical thought experiments. I guess engineer Steve finds them...
