T_Clark

For what it's worth, we know of one person who wrote a play called "Hamlet," but he was born in the 16th century.

I have to read it again. It's been awhile.

Yes, we should consider all aspects of philosophy, including it's misuse.

This is from a well-known and influential paper by P.W. Anderson - "More is Different," written in the 1970s. The link takes you to an essay written a...

As a metaphysical position, I have no problem with this. It's one I am familiar with and sympathetic towards. Lao Tzu wrote that the multiplicity of t...

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The physics/chemistry/biology... hierarchy I described is an oversimplification. The important principle is that phenomena at one level of organizatio...

I started to watch, but stopped about 4 minutes in when he started hinting at a connection between quantum mechanics and consciousness. That is a red ...

nlol.

I watched the video. It was interesting and really impressive. I don't see what it has to do with the subject we were discussing - how to predict biol...

I'm skeptical, but I don't have the background to make the argument. I'll watch the video.

There certainly is one directional aspect of evolution - it progresses towards complexity and diversity. There's no magic to it. The earliest life was...

Darwin was explicit and all other evolutionary biologists understand that Darwin's theory doesn't explain the origins of life.

That's almost what happened. The first single-celled organism is thought to have developed about 3.5 billion years ago fairly soon (500 million years)...

Don't you "ahem" me. Ahem... I didn't say Darwin or Wallace came up with the term, only that they used it. You're right. It's been 35 years since I to...

If you used all of your knowledge of chemistry, you could not predict the basic scientific principles of biology, e.g. the structure and behavior of a...

There, you've answered your own question. Maybe we don't, but Dr. Mengele and other scientists did. Science should have an ethical dimension, but it d...

My impulses are still those of a 17, sometimes 13, year old. Yes, I am more self aware and maybe even more mature than I was at those ages. That just ...

I was once 17, still am 17, and will always be 17. Except every so often I'm 13.

From "Windfall" by Son Volt: Switching it over to AM Searching for a truer sound Can't recall the call letters Steel guitar and settle down Catching a...

If I add heat to the water, it is heated and the water molecule increase in kinetic energy. Since it is confined by air pressure, it's pressure increa...

Is your standard of truth what gives the results you want?

Agreed.

When you shine light on a plant, it grows and is eaten by a cow. The cow is then milked. Humans drink the milk. The humans then repair the cup. It may...

This is not a winning argument. There are plenty of examples of the evil performed in the name of religion, ethnicity, nationality, and just about any...

Darwin and Wallace both used the term "survival of the fittest" to describe natural selection.

When you add energy to a system, you decrease it's entropy. It happens all the time. The sun and the heat inside the planet adds energy to the Earth's...

All domestic dogs are considered the same species.

I'm am overstepping the boundary of my knowledge, but it is my understanding that saying "accidental and random" is an overstatement. Much of what hap...

Sez you, with no evidence that I can see. Maybe evidence is one of those things one doesn't need once one rejects science. If so, what is the basis of...

@"Hanover"'s right, as much as it hurts me to say that. If I one ticket, my odds of winning are 1 in a million. If I buy two tickets, my odds are 2 in...

You should tag me whenever you want me to respond, but especially with insults.

We've had quite a few discussions here about the hierarchical nature of science, e.g physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, sociology. @"apokrisis" ...

I have no problem with not tagging me unless it's an insult. I hate to miss a good insult.

It doesn't show up on the list, but it works. Just type t clark after the @ in the box. Space after the T.

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I grew up in Delaware, where we were so poor we couldn't afford bread. So they let us eat cake.

I don't disagree with what you wrote about the internet in general, but that doesn't mean it's not reasonable to hope for more here on the forum

For me, the forum is not just the internet. There is a community here.

The forum is a good place, one that means a lot to me. The conversations are often high quality, freewheeling, and mostly more or less civil. A lot of...

But the odds of any particular universe, e.g. ours, having life would not change. Therefore, this argument can't be used as an explanation for so-call...

Agreed, but that is not the same as "no organisms developed on Mars." It doesn't matter how many universes there are, one or 10^100, it doesn't change...

This is not known to be true. There is no evidence of biological organisms currently living on Mars, but there is evidence that organic compounds and ...

I thought you would like it.

As I noted, you have no understanding of the theory you are arguing against. Nuff said.

This shows a misunderstanding of how speciation is understood to take place. Most changes take place in small, isolated populations separated geograph...

That's really ironic. I can't stand to wear bifocals.

Right, but you forgot the shotgun. Not many passersby at 3:20 in the morning.

I am on reddit, but I always watch videos with the sound off. I didn't realize it was rap.

This links to the most wonderful video in the history of the world universe. @"Shawn", this is for you. Make sure you watch to the end. https://www.re...