magnetic fields – Uncommon Descent

Exoplanets Extraterrestrial life Fine tuning Intelligent Design

“Very few” exoplanets have strong magnetic fields like Earth’s

This means that the search for extraterrestrial life should focus on planets with strong magnetic fields. Meanwhile, why is it that a thousand coincidences pointing in the same direction never seem to add up to a pattern, just something to explain away?

Truthfreedom 7 Seversky That alone is significant evidence for the physical basis of consciousness. Hylemorphism agrees. We need a "physical" brain.... – Can logic or evidence help you...
Upright BiPed . I’m not talking about the stuff that’s clear, I’m talking about things that are iffy. What do you look... – The smog is beginning to clear...
Truthfreedom 4 AaronS1978 Hahahahahahaha @ Sev thats you counter argument is convoluted word play that amounts to the EXACT same thing!... – Michael Egnor: Darwinism as Hegel’s philosophy...
ET JVL: The first thing an archaeologist looks for when considering an object that may or may not be intelligently designed... – The smog is beginning to clear...
JVL ET: That has nothing to do with whether or not said object was intelligently designed or not. Absolutely it does!... – The smog is beginning to clear...
ET Also, natural selection is a process of elimination. There isn't any selecting going on. And yes, there is a huge... – Behe's First Rule Writ Large
kairosfocus F/N: On the safety narrative, I note this study published 21st as medrxiv: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.16.20155531v3 >>Safety of Hydroxychloroquine among Outpatient Clinical... – The Frontline Doctors put some "plausible"...
ET Yes Bob O'H, I understand that you have issues with reality. The fact remains that your position doesn't even have... – Behe's First Rule Writ Large
kairosfocus Jerry, the current magisterium is as unknowingly doomed as were the European Aristocracy c May 1914. they and their designated... – The Frontline Doctors put some "plausible"...
john_a_designer There is no doubt that the typical modern-secular progressive accepts some form of Darwinism or Neo-Darwinism without question. However, this... – Michael Egnor: Darwinism as Hegel’s philosophy...
Truthfreedom 2 Upright Biped Like you (Seversky) for instance, whose interest is not in the pursuit of understanding reality, but in... – Michael Egnor: Darwinism as Hegel’s philosophy...
Bob O'H Or someone not taking your comments seriously. – Behe's First Rule Writ Large
William J Murray God and the Afterlife: Latest Findings from the Largest NDE Study Ever Reported https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfiwd2PzXvw He actually talks very little about... – Can logic or evidence help you...
ET Darwinism, ie blind watchmaker evolution, is a useless heuristic. And it appears that no one knows how to test its... – Michael Egnor: Darwinism as Hegel’s philosophy...
jerry Kf, History is going to judge us harshly, for cause. Depends on who will write the history. That is what... – The Frontline Doctors put some "plausible"...
john_a_designer The agenda of the contemporary secular progressive I think can be understood by three terms they like to use rhetorically:... – Michael Egnor: Darwinism as Hegel’s philosophy...
ET Does anyone (else) have any issues understanding the following: The rights of the mother, as an individual, end when she... – Scientific American doubles down on all...
ET You are a liar, Bob O'H- or a fool. – Behe's First Rule Writ Large
Bob O'H Oh, we do, ET. But we hide that away in the Really Dark Web. – Behe's First Rule Writ Large
ET JVL: But you haven’t ever been able to answer the most important question regarding what does an archaeologist consider when... – The smog is beginning to clear...
bornagain77 WJM "It seems to me that a lot of the information we have coming from the afterlife (and there is... – Does a cosmopsychist believe in life...