January 2016 – Page 13 – Uncommon Descent

It’s 2016, and some sciences face serious questions

Recently, a sociologist who has studied ID for some years, without being an advocate, went on record saying that he thought it will become part of mainstream science inquiry We hope that isn’t the ruin of it. Critical thinking about first principles is much easier when one is not part of a grand official huff-ology. Read More…

News Psychology

Why social science is riddled with “flaky research and questionable theories”

Because “ Graduate students were entering the field in order to change the world rather than discover truths. ” For last night’s party theme, the news desk chose EMS Crying Towel!: Liberals attacking social sciences. If it weren’t for the misunderstandings and mistrust that social scientists have inflicted by widely publicized fake data, one would Read More…

Viola Lee ET writes, "Viola and JVL are talking about one thing and the rest are talking about something else." Yes, this... – Coyne Believes a Version of "Turtles...
Karen McMannus We can count units of time from a point in time. In order for infinite past to have meaning, you'd... – Coyne Believes a Version of "Turtles...
William J Murray EDTA said: What I need is direct, personal evidence that only MRT could explain. That would be sufficient motivation to... – Coyne Believes a Version of "Turtles...
ET Isn't the point how can we get here, now if the past was infinite? And that we wouldn't be here... – Coyne Believes a Version of "Turtles...
ET The similarities are due to a common design and the differences are due to different design requirements required for differing... – Common Descent, Common Design, and ID
ET I told you why I think the earth has been and is being visited by beings with technology we don't... – Researchers: We might find extraterrestrial life...
Viola Lee I can assure you Viola Lee is a full-grown adult. – Coyne Believes a Version of "Turtles...
Sandy BA77 I guess ViolaLee is a boy. Not that it would matter. – Coyne Believes a Version of "Turtles...
bornagain77 VL claims that "No point in the past is an infinite distance from now." Why is she talking about distance... – Coyne Believes a Version of "Turtles...
kairosfocus BA, observe how I discuss the current causal-temporal stage of the cosmos. That is the way cosmology looks at the... – Coyne Believes a Version of "Turtles...
kairosfocus JVL, the US is the linchpin. Especially once relevant actors are on the other side. Start with, what navy holds... – The Twin Peaks of the Second...
Seversky Concerning WJM's MRT, I think we agree that the world we all inhabit is created in our minds. Where we... – Coyne Believes a Version of "Turtles...
JVL Kairosfocus: See the finitude of what we can count to, k, and the onward traverse in the ellipsis we CANNOT... – Coyne Believes a Version of "Turtles...
Viola Lee Yes, that's the point. No point in the past is an infinite distance from now. – Coyne Believes a Version of "Turtles...
AndyClue @Bornagain77: If I may take liberty to explain your argument to you, “in order to explain how the present moment... – Coyne Believes a Version of "Turtles...
EDTA VL @ 91, >1. I’m not sure why you use the qualifying phrase “write down with numerals,” and why you... – Coyne Believes a Version of "Turtles...
bornagain77 JVL claims that, "you clearly do not understand" (our argument) But alas, I understand it all too well. If I... – Coyne Believes a Version of "Turtles...
kairosfocus JVL, your latest buzzword for hyperskeptical dismissiveness fails. Try, 0,1,2, . . . then extend: 0,1,2 . . . k,k+1,k+2... – Coyne Believes a Version of "Turtles...
jerry However, all negative numbers (moments in the past in this model) have a predecessor, so the moment t(n-1) came before... – Coyne Believes a Version of "Turtles...
Viola Lee Thanks, EDTA. We are in agreement about everything up to this statement: "Any day for which we can actually write... – Coyne Believes a Version of "Turtles...
JVL In consequence to say the past is a potential transfinite is to evade the import of the need to complete... – Coyne Believes a Version of "Turtles...