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    pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.
    Empiricism in science is of course a philosophical stance deriving largely from Hume.
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    pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.
    The circular orbit paradigm was itself no doubt inspired by a theological world view, in which it was thought God would use circles for...
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    pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.
    Bare data about the world requires interpretation. Interpretation necessarily involves philosophy.
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    pood reacted to Swammerdami's post in the thread Philosophy Of Science with Like Like.
    Many of the great scientists drew inspiration from religion or mysticism. Kepler was deeply religious. Oppenheimer may have been...
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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...
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    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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    pood reacted to ideologyhunter's post in the thread Define God with Like Like.
    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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    pood reacted to bilby's post in the thread Define God with Like Like.
    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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    pood reacted to Bomb#20's post in the thread Minions with Like Like.
    Sounds like grunt work.
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