Banno

What is a split?Did you mean slit? So what? That is, what conclusion do you reach from this? If the mathematics allows us to predict results with grea...

No, I don't see any reason to doubt the standard approach. You will need to present either evidence or an argument.

Well, you have not convinced me, to the extent that I don't see that you actually have an argument as opposed to some hand waving with the words "para...

But I have seen such eclipses. They are instantaneous. You can do the very same thing.

Again, differences of a second or two would have negligible impact on a demonstration involving minutes. Issues of resolution or parallax would not re...

Because of the distances involved, Io is effectively a point source. So it is not at all "like looking at a large object slowly being drawn behind a c...

There is a very neat simulation at http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/RomersMeasurementOfTheSpeedOfLight/

This seems to be the core of your 'argument'; but it remains oddly opaque. I know that I can see the rotation of Jupiter's red spot through even my mo...

If you do not have the patience to explain your argument clearly, then you must forgive we who disagree. After all, why post unless you would like to ...

Let's stay on one topic. Again, a difference of even a few seconds, as might (conceivably, but I doubt it; having seen the such eclipses myself, I can...

Reread. It is worded as an argument that Romer did not show that the speed of light is finite.

Well the experiment on which you thread focuses is the first to show that the speed of light is finite. If you are criticising that experiment, you mi...

what? It was over tens years, so it was a matter of seconds? In fact the maximum delay was sixteen and a half minutes later than would have been expec...

that's not what I said, and of course you know that. So why did you need to switch? Where we could go, and it would be more worthwhile, would be to ta...

yeah, banno, if you can't present the whole of evolution in a few dozen words, then evolution needs god.

you say they don't. Funny, I say they do. What next?

yeah, Banno, explain all of morphogenisis or there is a god.

I've often taken part in discussions of evolution in the past. They go around in circles for ever, neither side accepting what seems obvious to the ot...

I would quote, but that's too hard to do on the iPhone. Take your own advice.

no, it doesn't. But you can't see that because of your need to defend god. So although this has the form of an argument about biology, it is more an a...

what is the polite thing to say when someone's own citation directly refutes their key conjecture?

that's a deflection, not an answer.

can you produce evidence that most folk think evolution requires intent? That would be interesting. Which folk?

odd, that the absurdity of evolution without intention seems only to be apparent to god botherers.

The point of using Io was that the reappearance is obvious and effectively instantaneous. But anyhow, given that the relevant time difference between ...

Someone withou language might be able to fix a pipe. ex hypothesi they know how to use a wrench to do so. Would you say they know what a wrench is?

Interesting prose; but then the usual misunderstanding of evolution. Perhaps what you want to do is defend your faith against a perceived threat. What...

Why?

Yes: once an incommensurable dichotomy is introduced, it cannot be removed.

They had no use for that distinction, so they never learned it. Perhaps you could distinguish red from other colours before you learned the word. More...

Every little bit helps. Fixed my error. Thanks.

I find his argument quite convincing. Perhaps the difficulties are illusions of one sort or another.

Thanks for bringing us back on topic. How is it that the thing that thinks is able to influence the thing that is extended? If they are incommensurate...

How do you know unless you first try?

The logic here seems to be that we ought accept new models on slim evidence, because they are new.

SO I guess, if I wanted to prolong the discussion, I would ask you to explain the relationship between mind and body, such that one does not need the ...

It seems to me that introducing holographic models of the universe in order to bolster claims of NDE's is looking in the wrong direction, and one migh...

see . Up the garden path.

And I think those reasons insufficient. Flip the coin again. What would have to be the case for a mind to be able to see, hear, feel, smell - without ...

Trump, or Wayfarer? It worries me that you should dream about either.

Conviction is personal. I remain skeptical.

Here I suspect we meet an impasse. I'd say you could distinguish one colour from another, but still did not know that one of them was red. Witness the...

I'm happy to accept that she somehow has memories of those experiences. I'm remain unconvinced that they are the result of an actual disembodiment.

It's astonishing. I do not have the answer. But that does not lead me to conclude that her mind became disembodied and floated above the surgery. How ...

I hope you are not too disappointed when I note that you do not appear in my dreams.

The experience can occur without the events occurring. I dreamt of flying, but did not fly. She dreamt of being outside her body, without being outsid...

No, I admit I did not. I'm procrastinating, and that was a step too far.

It's a legitimate question. But another legitimate question is how a disembodied mind might see, hear, smell and form memories. Which is the harder qu...

But she was there. Why shouldn't she remember what happened? Presuming that the experiences were disjointed, why should she not remember them as "dise...

So in order to know what "red" means, you must already know what sort of things are red. Yet to know which things are red, you must know what "red" me...