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I don't know how your response is supposed to relate to what I said. Do you consider "grandiose understanding" synonymous with "high expectations"? I ...

Not to mention a no true Scotsman fallacy.

Though I haven't had time to read the book, I've very much appreciated the discussion.

I'm afraid I'm not that interested in the topic these days, but you can find plenty of people to discuss WLC's arguments with at: https://knowwhyyoube...

Have you spent any time on WLC's forum? You might find WLC's arguments don't stand up so well. In any case, what is the relevance of "the bare minimum...

Yeah, the issue of misinformation is a pressing one. It sounds like you are a cdesign-proponetsist. Perhaps you are fooling yourself about being on th...

Because expectations are largely a function of intuitions, and changing intuitions isn't under our conscious control, and can take a long time. Becaus...

Little do they know, that I snagged her while fishing off Bonita Springs a few years back. She wouldn't tell me where the fish were, so I sold her for...

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I don't see how it means anything to say you have "re-interpreted" Shannon's definition of information, when you show no indication of having ever und...

Yeah, it's interesting. I am not affected by alcohol the way a lot of people are, and I don't get the appeal myself. (Which is not to say I haven't ha...

You aren't sufficiently informed, to speak with anywhere near the authority you pretend to. The VERY expensive mistake, of allowing the CO2 levels to ...

Makes sense. Thanks for elaborating.

I'm inclined to see, thinking of things from a variety of perspectves as a matter of ongoing epistemic necessity. I couldn't do my job, without freque...

Gnonsense.

Can you cite any articles in scientific journals saying anything like that?

It makes more sense to me to think that there are a great many facts of the matter, only some of which we know, but some of those facts can be fairly ...

Do these ex-mortals have to pay their way? There's going to be an energy requirement. Why think that humanity wouldn't shut you down, at some point in...

Indeed. Global warming denial tends to be big among the religious.

Plasma or something is not nothing.

No, not constraints in the absence of which nothing would exist. Something would exist, we just wouldn't be a part of what exists.

Is that consistent with me using a cup to trap a spider? People surely have the ability to see ways of using things, in ways no one has before. So sur...

Perhaps jgill had in mind, something along the lines of the following: https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2023/11/05/antisemitic-hatred-in-palestinian-sch...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/meet-the-money-behind-the-climate-denial-movement-180948204/

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As the Wikipedia I linked says: It is mostly a matter of teleological language being more expedient for conveying things evolutionary. It is much more...

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You are just lucky that you don't have to deal with the drop bears.

Then to be clear you ought to use distinct terminology. (I suggest "gnatural selection".) You wouldn't want anyone to get the impression that you are ...

Only if one elects to remain ignorant as to what biologists mean by natural selection.

Or philosophers. :razz:

Yes, there are an enormous number of ways to be adapted to environments. Did anyone say that in this thread? I'm fairly confident that nobody did. Oft...

Fortunately for the theory of evolution, it is not "the idea that life, or for that matter cosmic order, is a chance occurrence". The theory of evolut...

Of course. :up:

Old Niels seems to have been a bit hyperbolic on that one. Everything we call real cannot be regarded as understood, seems a bit more reasonable to me...

What is that?

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Shouldn't that be "a whole nother culture"?

There is a pretty huge spectrum on that matter. Here in the US there is no shortage of Christians who believe that people should have Christian belief...

No. You are simply reading your preconceptions into the quotes you posted.

If someone is making the offer, please send them my way. I'd take the million in a heartbeat.

Who really says anything remotely like that? You seem to enjoy posting quotes from people who you see as supporting your view. Why resort to a straw m...

:100: So many of the arguments against physicalism presuppose dualism, and are simply question begging. I think we are so encultured to thinking duali...

I added a link just before your post showed up. It's a very brief discussion of the differences.

You are mistaking determinism for fatalism. On determinism your mind can change in response to events. The way things are determined is ongoing and th...

It seems to me as if you are aren't really engaging with my question, and are instead presenting a red herring.

Do you think you can know the initial conditions of a system with perfect precision? Is this something you have done?

Is the determinism replaced, or is it simply the case that you can't know the initial conditions of a system with perfect precision?

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