Cosmology – Uncommon Descent

Simple, Unambigous Evidence We Do Not Live In An Objective, External Material World

When how I choose to observe a photon at a particular time and place can (1) instantaneously affect a photon a billion light years away and (2) retroactively changes the history of that photon (delayed choice quantum eraser), and when we have searched far, wide and deep and have not found any “matter,” we have Read More…

Intelligent Design

No Big Bang – Universe Always Was

Thought it all started with a big bang? Well, not so fast. If a new theory turns out to be true, the universe may not have started with a bang. In the new formulation, the universe has never been a singularity, nor an infinitely small and infinitely dense point of matter. In fact, the universe Read More…

Cosmology Intelligent Design Media News Physics

PBS asks, must we rewrite general relativity?

Because we just haven’t found the dark matter that the theory seems to require. Further to Human languages must be irreducibly complex (Can someone help us understand what this translation from German means?)—maybe it was something about how cosmology needs to change, which Neil Turok of the Perimeter Institute in Canada said plainly earlier this Read More…

Intelligent Design

Why is the universe NOT homogeneous?

The largest large quasar group LQG ever has been discovered, stretching an enormous 4 billion light years from end to end. That is 40,000 times larger than our Milky Way galaxy which is only 100,000 light years across. This LQG contains 73 quasars! See: Largest Structure in the universe discovered “The quasar group appears to Read More…

Cosmology

Higgs boson could be ruled out as particle by the end of next year, says CERN boss

Many of us have been given to understand that the Big Bang was confirmed by readings of the cosmic microwave background and similar findings, and is not subject to the test of discovering a Higgs boson

Cosmology

Coffee!! Large Hadron Collider: If this “backwards time travel” is not a joke, it surely should be

Woes of God particle researchers worse than woes of Job, in the Bible, apparently: Here’s a fun piece on the large Hadron Collider’s woes, when a passing bird dropped a piece of bread on it (yes!) , via Commentary Magazine – “Big Bang Machine Felled by Frenchman from the Future” by Anthony Sacramone (11/16/09): So Read More…

relatd AF at 388, I have no idea what you want. Sainthood is based on evidence. Pope John Paul II: https://www.magiscenter.com/blog/the-miracle-that-made-pope-john-paul-ii-a-canonized-saint – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
jerry The only argument against ID has been mockery or nonsense. That's all we have seen since it started. This thread... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
Alan Fox Yes, they are happening right now. And what can you tell me? 19th century stuff (Lourdes, Fatima) looks a little... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
Alan Fox Otherwise, the question of who designed the designer would be valid. *chuckles* – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
Alan Fox Why shouldn’t just respond with “we don’t know”, rather than be ID proponents? IOW, this seems to be a case... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
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...