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This is true. Genetic drift is more significant in human evolution than adaptation. Merck is #93 in the world. Best Buy?

True. Modern medicine is much better at dealing with novel threats to life than nature. But does that success have a cost on the B-side? By saving liv...

Unanalyzable. Yes. It might seem bad for someone who wants to support some ontological view by leveraging a definition of truth, but on closer examina...

Freakin' Sweden.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I

More Americans die from opioid overdose than car accident. Narcan is now sold over the counter.

Imagine that you're on a sailboat headed for the East Indian coast and that guy is just an old sailor who has inhaled way too much salt. Or a Viking b...

The genetic test would just indicate increased risk, so you wouldn't really know much more than you already do. Anyway, you might be run over by a bus...

With the right arrangement of aluminum foil I could probably pick up the signal.

I wonder if we could get Rick to write an article for the Articles section of this website. Do you know his email address?

Chair without a seat is better. You can just put a piece of cardboard on it. Maybe some duck tape.

Mcnugget sauce.

During an asthma attack it's the ability to breathe.

"And so it is that the Transcendent is clothed in the terms of being, with shape and form on things that have neither, and numerous symbols are employ...

I think you're right. I've developed a head cold.. need to come back to it when I can see straight. :)

Could be.

It's a reductio ad absurdum argument. God's decision to move the universe is not a premise, it's the object of analysis. Does it make sense for God to...

The possibility that time and space are limitless is confusing me. But is that a problem? Can the thought experiment just say that for every E, E happ...

I don't think God would be able to detect the change either. Think about the question Pierre asked: what is the change relative to?

Right. Leibniz shows the problem of absolute space by imagining the universe is finite and sitting in a void. Assuming absolute space, the void is emp...

Yes. Do you see a problem?

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Propositions and sentences?

So you thought I was conflating Leibniz and Einstein. OK. That wasn't my intention. You're thinking that when God turns the universal clock back, that...

You brought up the hole argument to explain something about Leibniz. What were you trying to explain?

I'm asking how it relates.

Yes, but the sentence and the thought aren't the same thing. The same thought can be expressed by different sentences.

You're saying that a proposition is constructed in time? You mean one word at a time?

How does Einstein's hole argument relate to relative time?

It's not "undetectable to us." It's undetectable even in principle. Then apply Leibniz's Law.

Leibniz argued directly against absolute space (which is associated with Newton). Why do you think he was operating in a Newtonian reference frame?

Yep, it's Purple Haze (which contains the line: "Tomorrow is the end of time." Concepts are timeless though, aren't they?

You have a special bag for that?

Could be.. I'm going back through demonstrations of relativity, That might help me connect the dots you've distributed.

I don't either. Leibniz's demonstration of the relativity of space is pretty simple. I don't remember if he addressed time with it as well, but this i...

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I thought maybe we could do an internet petition. Maybe march around the White House. Save martyrdom for the last resort.

I imagine that one of the things that must have been attractive about Islam as it grew was its emphasis on unification. Malcolm X on Islam

Point taken.

You're a Protestant at heart.

Obviously no Muslim could say there is no accurate representation of Islam. You're treating it like a cute little exhibit in a museum. It's a living w...

I appreciate your good intentions, but you aren't accurately representing Islam. A word that ran through my readings was ijtihad. It means to struggle...

What sect does your Muslim friend belong to? A Protestant is bound to act as his or her own priest. You just pick that Bible up and start interpreting...

You need to get your information from a Muslim scholar. Otherwise you're dealing in horseshit.

Then I misunderstood. It didn't look like you were comparing scholarly comments (note that we're not interested in translation here, but commentary.) ...

Obviously it's not all bad. http://www.farhorizons.net/women/images/IND-TajMahal_reflect.jpg

Sure. Parties on both sides make the mistake of assuming that a religion's tenets must be reflected in the behavior of its adherents. The opposite is ...

Seems kind of arrogant for you present your opinion as superior to that of a Muslim scholar. There is a mass of knowledge that's required to give a le...

Israel was founded by Zionists. They wanted a totally Jewish state. Israel committed some dastardly deeds in an attempt to rid the area of Palestinian...

Precisely. I think that if a person has an inner struggle with that kind of racism, rational examination of the question can become impossible. Anytim...