extinction (and diversity) – Uncommon Descent

Science writer: Extinctions don’t necessarily lead to new diversity

Black’s essay is a tribute to “accidental evolution,” as if no serious explanation is required for the complex means by which boundaries are transcended.

Querius Origenes @52, Sorry I missed that. Here's an great video explaining how superconducting materials work: https://youtu.be/h6FYs_AUCsQ?t=32 It involves quantum locking... – L&FP, 65: So, you think you...
bornagain77 JVL: "Plus there are those annoying stones I keep stubbing my toe on." That subjective conscious experience of pain, i.e.... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
PyrrhoManiac1 . Materialism asserts that the liver is nothing but an amalgamation of chemicals and that amalgamation of chemicals is incapable... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
Barry Arrington PyrrhoManiac1 @ 8 Nope. You evaded the OP. Not surprising. The OP asserts that materialism cannot account for intentionality. You... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
Barry Arrington Chuck. at some point you will have to come up with a testable alternative Nope. If my goal is to... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
chuckdarwin BA/6 Materialism is false whether or not some other proposition is true. However, at some point you will have to... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
JVL Bornagain77: You see Sev, in order to even be able to differentiate beliefs that are real from beliefs that are... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
Origenes Querius @50 Ori: In the video, it is claimed that large objects are not informationally isolated and therefore are in... – L&FP, 65: So, you think you...
relatd Ba77, "You see Sev, in order to differentiate beliefs that are real from beliefs that are illusory, you must first... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
bornagain77 Sev, you tried the “change the subject” trick. But the catastrophic epistemological failure inherent in your materialism, which Barry highlighted,... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
Querius William J Murray @40, If the nature of reality is that it reflects back at you that which is the... – L&FP, 65: So, you think you...
Querius Origenes @36, However, no doubt you are aware, there are larger objects that show quantum effects and are not informationally... – L&FP, 65: So, you think you...
Origenes PM1 @8 Naturalists would insist that brains and livers have different biological functions: the function of the liver is to... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
AnimatedDust BA @7: Good advice. And he does it all the time. – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
relatd Andrew at 6, Sev wishes he was in the Planet of the Apes movie. – Claim: Language originated in hand gestures....
relatd PM1 at 8, Complex functional specified information is a description not an addition. The question is: How did that information... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
relatd Tgpeeler at 1, Intellectual degeneracy does not appear everywhere in the culture. If it did then nothing would get done. – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
PyrrhoManiac1 It's easy to define a view as being so absurd that no sane person would accept it. Naturalists can do... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
Barry Arrington Animated Dust, you fell for Sev's "change the subject" trick. Don't do that. – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
Barry Arrington Seversky, Wrong. Your materialism fails because it is self-referentially incoherent. You insist that I need to prove something else is... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
AnimatedDust Sev @ 3: but for peer reviewed studies on NDEs: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6172100/ There are many more, but you won't read them... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...