In terms of our service to the casual reader who doesn't participate but may be influenced by what he/she reads in threads like this, I'd say we've met our obligations. In fact a lot of the work...
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In terms of our service to the casual reader who doesn't participate but may be influenced by what he/she reads in threads like this, I'd say we've met our obligations. In fact a lot of the work...
The reasonableness of a conclusion is not compromised by the remote possibility that it is not 100% accurate (since you can force any reasonable person to make such a concession with regard to pretty...
0.999 is not equal to 1, but 0.999... (recurring) is. If you want proof, consider the fact that three thirds of something constitutes the whole, even though one third of 10, for example, is 3.333......
Which one? Seriously, stop buggering around and be specific.
Every quote you provided is in the article I linked to in this thread. If you had bothered to read it again, you would know this. You probably just tried searching for phrases, but fucked it up...
What quote are you even talking about? The one you posted 2+ years ago in the thread I linked to? If so it's still there, in the copy I linked to in this thread, so stop with all the absurd...
God, in the purely philosophical sense of the word, and as an undefined quantity, isn't really a man-made concept. It's more like a word people throw around in the context of discussing the great...
I assume that's an elaboration rather than a correction? It's clearly consistent with what Gould himself is saying in any case :)
Even more straw man bullshit.
Funny how you don't care but keep engaging me anyway.
Straw man nonsense.
I guess the irony will never end.
We stopped conversing on this topic some time ago, yet clearly you've been waiting all this time to play some winning cards that will...
Then we would expect you to agree with him when, in the context of discussing his hypothesis, he says things like this:
"For a variety of reasons, small isolated populations have unusual potential...
Will the irony never end?
(hey, it's become a sciforums tradition)
Meh. I've read the whole thing already. I read it 2 years ago. Here's a copy: http://www.keepandshare.com/doc/1747213/2-3-science-evolutionary-theory-under-fire-pdf
Again, the only thing of...
Sorry Cyperium, but I'm done with this discussion. All I would be doing at this point is repeating myself, and addressing what looks to be your longest post in this thread so far is not something I...
Since the nature of physicality is such that it's a distribution of sorts, I'd say the onus is on you to explain why the nature of physicality isn't enough to explain the nature of physicality.
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You keep saying this, and I keep disagreeing with you. Primarily because it's the equivalent of saying that if all the points of a five-pointed star are identical, then there aren't actually five...
Wrong. Here's a post of yours from March 2011 that references the same article. That's over two years ago. I remember it because I remember correcting your misconceptions about punctuated...
Leopold is pulling the same bullshit here that he's been pulling for years. Despite it being explained to him several times, he still pretends not to understand that the punctuated equilibrium...
Thales of Miletus found out that there was something unphysical about reality didn't he? I mean here's a man who was literally witnessing an unphysical event when he brought a lodestone close to a...
An instance of an excitation in a field somewhere in our galaxy, and an instance of an excitation in a field somewhere in the Andromeda galaxy, is the same excitation, even though an accounting of...
Shoelaces do indeed piss me off because no matter how expert you become at tying them, it still takes longer than you'd like when you need to run outside in a hurry. This happens to me about as...
Let's imagine that all subatomic particles are excitations of more fundamental fields, which is an idea that may in fact have a basis in reality. So an individual electron, then, would be one of...
Taken at face value, that statement is not correct. All subatomic particles of a particular type may indeed be identical, but that doesn't mean they're all the same particle. That's probably not...
Similarly one could ask "if the Quran is incorrect in its assertion that Jesus wasn't really the son of God, and wasn't really crucified, why are there nearly 2 billion Muslims in the world?"
But again that reads as how does one self become that particular self. Previous to the formation of the particular neural architecture that constituted it, it didn't exist.
Let's get...