Natalie Wolchover – Uncommon Descent

Physicist spars with science writer over whether the laws of physics are inevitable

Of course, neither Wolchover nor Hossenfelder would be allowed to notice that design in nature is obvious but not inevitable.

bornagain77 I touched upon the fact that the sequential information in DNA is now found to be a subset of quantum... – Gunter Bechly vs. Joshua Swamidass at...
bornagain77 More often than not, ET has the ability to pack more scientific punch in one sentence than a whole laboratory... – Gunter Bechly vs. Joshua Swamidass at...
mohammadnursyamsu Science has not caved to demands of the radical left, the scientific community is the radical left, scientific socialists. And... – Why science is losing prestige…
bornagain77 I really like what Pam Reynolds said after her fairly famous Near Death Experience, "I think death is an illusion.... – Child burial from 80,000 years ago...
kairosfocus BO'H, switcheroo again. Science studies the empirical, here features that show signs of design. The kind of configuration and function... – L&FP 45: The Hypothetical Syllogism --...
Sandy Jerry If one is interested in body plan formation, there is a section Meyer’s book, “Darwin’s Doubt” that discusses it.... – Gunter Bechly vs. Joshua Swamidass at...
jerry This is happening so rapidly by such a small number of people it’s hard to take it seriously but Google,... – Off topic: The Cancel Culture ragtag...
jerry Create a deal where we ship generic Viagra to China and Vietnam and they safeguard pangolins. Problem solved. – Nature attempts to paper over a...
ET How body plans are formed is not the same as what determines the body plan. To understand the challenge to... – Gunter Bechly vs. Joshua Swamidass at...
jerry If one is interested in body plan formation, there is a section Meyer’s book, “Darwin’s Doubt” that discusses it. Look... – Gunter Bechly vs. Joshua Swamidass at...
jerry This seems odd to me. It’s all about world-views. ID represents a world view that is unacceptable to the elites. – Gunter Bechly vs. Joshua Swamidass at...
ET DNA just codes for RNAs. mRNA just codes for polypeptide sequences. DNA just codes for the raw materials. It does... – Gunter Bechly vs. Joshua Swamidass at...
ET Bob O'H: but you still haven’t explained how you can show that an unidentified designer has the power to do... – L&FP 45: The Hypothetical Syllogism --...
jerry If DNA does not specify the basic form of an organism then what does? One theory is that there is... – Gunter Bechly vs. Joshua Swamidass at...
ET Newton's four rules pertain to cause and effect relationships. Why that has to be said is beyond me. Scientific inferences... – L&FP 45: The Hypothetical Syllogism --...
ET We can't create life de novo because life is not reducible to physics and chemistry. – L&FP 45: The Hypothetical Syllogism --...
jerry Do we really know that animals do not get Alzheimer? We have a business catering to emergency veterinary care. While... – Why science is losing prestige…
Sandy Seversky If DNA does not specify the basic form of an organism then what does? If DNA has no bearing... – Gunter Bechly vs. Joshua Swamidass at...
polistra China has owned us for 40 years. We surrendered. War over. I'm terminally tired of fake surprise and fake subjunctives.... – Nature attempts to paper over a...
KRock Science has become increasingly politicized. More importantly, though, science has caved to the demands of the radical left, who derive... – Why science is losing prestige…
johnnyb What I found most perplexing about the discussion was this: Swamidass was adamant that we shouldn't expect any of the... – Gunter Bechly vs. Joshua Swamidass at...