Frank Drake – Uncommon Descent

Evolution Exoplanets Extraterrestrial life Intelligent Design Religion

Some people think they can tell us what space aliens will be like

So if aliens exist, they must be just like us because… evolution. This is a religion. Didn’t say it was a bad religion. But definitely a religion.

polistra I served prison time in 1969 for marijuana, and learned the difference between professional criminals and circumstantial lawbreakers. They are... – The Twin Peaks of the Second...
Silver Asiatic What makes the Darwinist among them so much more vulnerable? Physics occupies a higher celebrity strata than biology. Krauss and... – Evolutionary biologist Francisco Ayala’s membership in...
Sandy Orthomyxo Not sure what value there is in asking someone without a highschool level of understanding about biology to share... – Rob Sheldon on Larry Moran and...
ET The genetic code is a set of rules involved in the transcription of DNA into mRNA (via RNA polymerase) and... – Rob Sheldon on Larry Moran and...
Upright BiPed . As the genuine semiotic system that the gene system was predicted (and experimentally confirmed) to be, each object specified... – Rob Sheldon on Larry Moran and...
orthomyxo The thread is about (Barry's ignorance of) the genetic code. Your post isn't about the genetic code and UB took... – Rob Sheldon on Larry Moran and...
jerry it is reasonably clear why I use warrant, why this is not a triviality, a vague notion or gobbledygook, I... – L&FP 40: Thoughts on [neo-?] Reidian...
Fasteddious You'll give it ten years? Hah, I expect that within a year or two we'll see our first cases of... – Evolutionary biologist Francisco Ayala’s membership in...
jerry More from the Plantinga article on warrant. I am going to use the words warrant and justification interchangeably till I... – L&FP 40: Thoughts on [neo-?] Reidian...
johnnyb Gordon - I appreciate the comments. The main sticking point seems to be whether or not there exist sufficient information... – Common Descent, Common Design, and ID
bornagain77 William J Murray states, "Sorry, BA77. Bruce Gordon IS saying there is no material world." But I didn't claim that... – Bruce Gordon and Michael Egnor: Why...
William J Murray We know the difference between an imagination and reality. We know how to distinguish between different categories of mental experience.... – Bruce Gordon and Michael Egnor: Why...
William J Murray SA: That's not really the point. What baffles me is why so-called "non-materialists" (semi-materialists, actually) defend (against the overwhelming scientific... – Bruce Gordon and Michael Egnor: Why...
News This is honestly the best defense of the US2A I have ever read. I understand it now. It is easy... – The Twin Peaks of the Second...
Mario A. Lopez I also think common design explains things like genetic hotspots and synteny. Common descent is very good at explaining variation,... – Common Descent, Common Design, and ID
kairosfocus Jerry, it is clear from the course of events since 1963 that Gettier's thought exercises I and II made the... – L&FP 40: Thoughts on [neo-?] Reidian...
Silver Asiatic WJM It makes zero sense for God to create a whole domain of existence (matter) to accomplish the same thing... – Bruce Gordon and Michael Egnor: Why...
jerry I just read the Gettler paper. It’s gobbledygook. https://fitelson.org/proseminar/gettier.pdf The fact that he uses absurd examples means he didn’t have... – L&FP 40: Thoughts on [neo-?] Reidian...
Barry Arrington Thank you KF for your kind words and your thoughtful, per usual, additions. – The Twin Peaks of the Second...
kairosfocus Jerry, the two teams case is a simple case in point of the Gettier problem, which blew up the justified,... – L&FP 40: Thoughts on [neo-?] Reidian...
jerry See the problem? As often the case I haven’t a clue what you are saying. Which is why I copied... – L&FP 40: Thoughts on [neo-?] Reidian...