AITSE – Uncommon Descent

That’s the Way, ASA!

Reposted with permission from AITSE Report on the 2012 American Scientific Affiliation (ASA) Annual Meeting About a year ago AITSE and Uncommon Descent featured an article that, between it and the follow-on posts, attracted 3773 hits and 182 comments. Why this high level of interest? Simply because the article pointed out that some of what happened at the Read More…

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Seversky You know, if BA77 got residuals for every time he repeated his regular posts he'd be worth a small fortune... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
chuckdarwin BA77 Back on the Shroud of Turin again, aye? You need to get new material..... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
bornagain77 Einstein himself may not have personally believed in life after death, (nor in a personal God), but Special Relativity itself... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
Seversky Relatd/16 You should start your posts with “If I was God” and take it from there. Just taking Christianity at... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
jerry Denyse, If you are reading this and not aware, there is a new video series coming in two weeks on... – Physicists: Our universe might not be...
relatd Seversky at 6, You should start your posts with "If I was God" and take it from there. So, if... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
jerry I believe in Spinoza’s God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
Viola Lee I also agree with Spinoza if this quote by Einstein is accurate about Spinoza: "“I believe in Spinoza's God, who... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
kairosfocus PM1, no one here has argued that blind physical forces account for FSCO/I rich systems, notice, design inference. If Chalmers... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Origenes StephenB Ori: Can you identify a single aspect of Ted, which is involved in Ted’s moral decision-making, that is not... – Aquinas, Ockham, and Descartes about God....
PyrrhoManiac1 @203 Can you provide a quote of Pattee arguing that symbol-grounding precedes interpretation? I was relying on the abstract to... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
PyrrhoManiac1 @5 I also believe in God, but my conception of what that means is different still. I believe in something... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
kairosfocus Self referentiality gets you every time you appeal to grand delusion and project it to the other. – John Lennox on debating Richard Dawkins
kairosfocus As lame as it gets in answer to evident fine tuning. We are winning on the merits. – Physicists: Our universe might not be...
kairosfocus Folks, here is a case in point of synergy, leading to an emergent effect due to due and proportionate interaction:... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
bornagain77 DD also falsely holds that our minds are "fundamentally connected to and united with our physical bodies" Well first off,... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
bornagain77 DD: "Again, the god of Spinoza (and me) is not more-or-less impersonal; it is simply not personal in any sense... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
dogdoc Vivid, Do we? If the God I believe in corresponds with what “is” then your God does not exist thus... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
vividbleau “But hey, we all believe in God, so that’s a good thing!” Do we? If the God I believe in... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
dogdoc Querius @7, I must admit though that I’ve always been puzzled by people who believe in a more-or-less impersonal God...... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
StephenB SB: God is NOT the sufficient cause of what man does do or will do. (…) God is not the... – Aquinas, Ockham, and Descartes about God....