I want to thank everyone for an interesting discussion. My conclusion is that the initial assertion stands. The corollary is that atheism is fundament...
"the world could have any shape, size, qualities, anything you can imagine" In fact, that is not true unless one does not care about the consequences....
"the world could have any shape, size, qualities, anything you can imagine" In fact, that is not true unless one does not care about the consequences....
Your expressed opinion that God is used to explain away natural phenomena that are not yet understood, is a frequently held opinion. Yet, if one reads...
I actually agree with most of what you said. Outside of one's area of expertise one can be rather ordinary in skill and insight. One should never put ...
Light isn't pure energy that's sort of a misnomer. substantivalism Well, I disagree. Light is electromagnetic radiation in a particular range of frequ...
“You correctly pointed to the fact that science evolves - its theories adapt as more and more disparate observations are made. Part of this adaptive p...
"As I see it, science is concerned with primitive realities. Matter is primitive and so is much of mathematics. It is naive to think that the science ...
Thank you very much for your extensive analysis. It is much appreciated. "The nature of reality or the nature of anything is inherently unknowable as ...
You can look at gamma as just a term in an equation separate from mass. Alternatively the equation embodies reality and gamma expresses how speed chan...
All scientific doctoral degrees are Ph.D. degrees. My degree is in Biochemistry. If you are interested you can find me in Google Scholar. I'm the one ...
You raise interesting points... My use of the term usable and non-usable energy actually applies not only to human activity but all activity by both a...
I'm a scientist. Historically scientists and philosophers were one and the same. My degree is a doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.). The separation in recent...
Tim Wood...Ok, the person on the video is very reputable. Yes indeed relativistic mass is what increases. Now that becomes a semantic argument. What i...
Ciceronianus the White, I hate to get into the topic of aliens. However, I propose that a civilization that is limited in technology to the use of sto...
3017 Amen...thanks. Regarding consciousness, I don't know what is consciousness. My speculation is that it is the soul that is using the brain as an i...
Tim Wood, that the mass of a particle increases with speed is a well established fact. You can pick up any good physics textbook. There is much misinf...
Tim Wood...point well taken regarding correct and better. Semantics is so imprecise. All measurements have errors and thus the time sent from the GPS ...
Hippyhead, something does not need to have mass to exist. Photons have no mass. That allows them to travel at the speed of light. If they had mass the...
Tim Wood, yes it is true that all of our understanding arises from models of reality. The models are generally incomplete descriptions of reality espe...
180 Proof, the identification of an event that is unexplanable by settled science is not a gap but a big deal. For example changes with time of fundam...
Hippyhead, in science, something either exists or does not. There no intermediate. In philosophy there seems to be an intermediate and I cannot concei...
3017amen, indeed, both views are held by persons interested in understanding the universe and our existence. These are two hypotheses of the nature of...
unenlightened, granted that some things are discovered by accident and the underlying mechanism is not understood, at least at that time. Fire, for in...
Hippyhead, clearly your example is nonsense and not worth considering. That is not so for the quest to understand all aspects of nature. Much progress...
Proof, this is a reasonable deduction to explain events that are incompatible with our understanding of how substances in the universe behave. The alt...
TheMadFool...and yet there is ample evidence that early humans were very intelligent, discriminating, critical, all the human abilities but devoid of ...
Unenlightened, much of what we see and do can be explained by our collective and well settled science. (motivations, emotions are excluded). From the ...
Augustusea, let me start by dealing with energy becoming unavailable and the universe eventually becoming dead as far as living organisms are concerne...
Philosophim, it is very true that hypotheses are tested by trying to disprove them. Hypotheses are formulated by making observations and trying to und...
Gregory, it depends on how we define a person. God needs to be extremely intelligent to not only provide the right amount of matter/energy but also ex...
turkeyMan, thanks for your comment. All science can say with confidence is that shortly after time zero the energy level was so great that all matter/...
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