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Extraterrestrial life Intelligent Design

Harvard astronomer is back: Radio bursts could be aliens

The reader who sent this tip notes, “Consider me skeptical but it’s interesting that design inferences are fine so long as it’s just aliens…” Actually, reader, some science personalities will believe darn near anything about anything as long as it IS aliens.

Cosmology Extraterrestrial life Fine tuning Intelligent Design

Astrophysicist: Alien hunters, please stop using the Drake Equation

Actually, the intuition that They Are Out There is not based on science; it is based on deductive reasoning.

asauber "But adult pigs very much do." What about baby pigs? Gotta be a certain age before killing them is an... – Give Dawkins credit for guts: He...
critical rationalist A scientific theory is based on the laws of physics. ID is based on the ability of an intelligence to... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
Querius Origenes @368, The designer and the watch do not fall into the same category. Similarly, the thinker and his thoughts... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
relatd AF at 380, Yes, they are happening right now. The Congregation for the Causes of Saints investigates miracles. It is... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
Querius Origenes @360, WRT Alan Fox I will ignore Alan Fox from now on, for deliberately misquoting Querius in #267; see... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
Querius Kairosfocus @353, Great post! One would hope that in 50 years, objectors would acknowledge basic points, but that has patently... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
Alan Fox Simplifying. Are miracles happening now? Where's the evidence? – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
PyrrhoManiac1 @11 You say its okay to deliberately kill a guy unconscious in the emergency room, because it’s like killing an... – Give Dawkins credit for guts: He...
jerry the seeds of racism are in all of us Distrust of others is built in. It’s a survival instinct. But... – Darwin a slavery abolitionist? Aw, come...
relatd CD at 11, Nothing surprises me anymore... – Darwin a slavery abolitionist? Aw, come...
jerry Can we estimate, given, for the sake of arguments that deviations from the laws of the universe happen to living... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
chuckdarwin Relatd/9 Although I don’t eat from a bowl on the floor, I do occasionally drink out of the toilet…… – Darwin a slavery abolitionist? Aw, come...
martin_r CD @40 of course, we don't know as much as you do ... – Of Dragonflies, Spitfires and Elliptical Wings
chuckdarwin Martin r/ Of course you do…… – Of Dragonflies, Spitfires and Elliptical Wings
Alan Fox Why don’t you pursue it?I will certainly keep an eye out for such an event but gathering evidence might be... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
jerry The necessary discontinuity with say the second law of thermodynamics being violated would be Earth-shattering news Why don’t you pursue... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
doubter It seems to me, Hawking just replaced one irrationality with another, and still makes the egregious error of sticking with... – Stephen Hawking’s co-author: Hawking thought that...
relatd Regarding abortion. The whole point is to kill a human being as opposed to a "blob of tissue" as it... – Give Dawkins credit for guts: He...
Alan Fox There is no scientific theory of ID.Bold of you to say so, Jerry. Explains why no-one had been able to... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
jerry You should probably let KF, BA, UB, etc. know They know. Anyone who believes ID is a scientific theory confuses... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
critical rationalist There is no scientific theory of ID. You should probably let KF, BA, UB, etc. know. It would save them... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...