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Thread: Is evolution a valid theory?
Post: RE: Is evolution a valid theory?
| (08-11-2025, 01:32 PM)SteveII Wrote: (08-08-2025, 04:05 PM)polymath257 Wrote: Having a shared biological framework is one thing. Having a relationship between DNA strands that gives a tree-like re... |
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Thread: Is evolution a valid theory?
Post: RE: Is evolution a valid theory?
| (08-08-2025, 11:58 AM)SteveII Wrote: (08-07-2025, 05:35 PM)epronovost Wrote: How is it evidence of designer? We know it's proof of common ancestry because we understand how reproduction works and ... |
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Thread: Is evolution a valid theory?
Post: RE: Is evolution a valid theory?
| (08-06-2025, 11:37 AM)SteveII Wrote: (08-04-2025, 04:02 PM)polymath257 Wrote: The individual mutations do NOT have to be 'functionally coordinated'.
First, a mutation can exist and be maintained... |
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Thread: Is evolution a valid theory?
Post: RE: Is evolution a valid theory?
| (08-03-2025, 12:56 PM)SteveII Wrote: (08-02-2025, 05:46 PM)polymath257 Wrote: More to the point, the validity of multiplying these small numbers together to estimate probabilties is the issue. For... |
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Thread: Is evolution a valid theory?
Post: RE: Is evolution a valid theory?
| (07-31-2025, 08:28 PM)SteveII Wrote: (07-31-2025, 12:16 AM)Dānu Wrote: Yeah, no, you claimed the mechanisms ["a successful mechanism (or basket of them)"] were insufficient, not that they haven't ... |
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Thread: what pure logical tautologies can deduce
Post: RE: what pure logical tautologies can deduce
| (07-04-2025, 01:45 AM)HumbleBeauty Wrote: (07-01-2025, 09:28 PM)polymath257 Wrote: Assuming nothing means you can't assume the existence of any set, in particular the existence of the empty set. I... |
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07-04-2025, 01:34 PM |
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Thread: what pure logical tautologies can deduce
Post: RE: what pure logical tautologies can deduce
| (07-01-2025, 07:51 PM)HumbleBeauty Wrote: (06-30-2025, 01:11 PM)polymath257 Wrote: [/font][/color]
That is not a proof. it is a restatement of the claim. It is also an example of a non-logical ax... |
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Thread: Who's Dead Now?
Post: RE: Who's Dead Now?
| (07-01-2025, 04:06 PM)c172 Wrote: Jimmy Freaking Swaggart.
https://apnews.com/article/jimmy-swaggar...ab7c194766
It took him long enough. |
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Thread: what pure logical tautologies can deduce
Post: RE: what pure logical tautologies can deduce
| (06-17-2025, 08:28 PM)HumbleBeauty Wrote: the empty set exists
proof; (|- ∃{})
That is not a proof. it is a restatement of the claim. It is also an example of a non-logical axiom.
I deleted the... |
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Thread: theory from pure observation
Post: RE: theory from pure observation
| (06-16-2025, 03:44 AM)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (06-15-2025, 03:03 PM)polymath257 Wrote: Yes, absolutely. Just like we can prove the existence of air.
We can prove that. There's a world of difference ... |
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06-16-2025, 12:55 PM |
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Thread: theory from pure observation
Post: RE: theory from pure observation
| (06-15-2025, 03:09 PM)Rhythmcs Wrote: (06-15-2025, 03:02 PM)polymath257 Wrote: Well, you can also regard space as a relationship of (spatial) change between different things. So this definition of... |
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06-15-2025, 03:12 PM |
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Thread: theory from pure observation
Post: RE: theory from pure observation
| (06-15-2025, 01:39 AM)HumbleBeauty Wrote: (06-15-2025, 01:36 AM)Cavebear Wrote: Pieces that make up quarks that we haven't discovered yet... :consider:
are those pieces theorized to be made of e... |
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Thread: theory from pure observation
Post: RE: theory from pure observation
| (06-15-2025, 01:37 AM)HumbleBeauty Wrote: (06-14-2025, 08:53 PM)Dexta Wrote: I have pity for OP. Well gone...for now; there's hope for them yet.
"Maybe atheism doesn't have burden of proof because... |
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Thread: theory from pure observation
Post: RE: theory from pure observation
| (06-15-2025, 01:32 AM)HumbleBeauty Wrote: (06-14-2025, 08:15 PM)Paleophyte Wrote: You made it to 11?!? I couldn't get past 3. Looks like a long list of non-sequiturs.
if time isn't a relationship ... |
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Thread: theory from pure observation
Post: RE: theory from pure observation
| (06-15-2025, 01:30 AM)HumbleBeauty Wrote: (06-14-2025, 02:12 PM)polymath257 Wrote: Everything from 11 on is problematic. No, it is NOT a scientific fact that everything is 'made of' energy. 15 1n... |
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Thread: theory from pure observation
Post: RE: theory from pure observation
| (06-13-2025, 09:44 PM)HumbleBeauty Wrote: allow me to speak to you
feel good if you read this post
focus on these words
allow yourself to relax in your chair
let Love teach you
use your reasoni... |
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Thread: Religious discussion without foundation
Post: RE: Religious discussion without foundation
| (06-10-2025, 03:41 PM)SYZ Wrote: (06-10-2025, 06:12 AM)Cavebear Wrote: I had to look up Russell's Teapot on Wiki and read it a couple times. I just wasn't familiar with it. Made perfect sense af... |
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Thread: Is There a Rational Method for Evaluating Religious Claims?
Post: RE: Is There a Rational Method for Evaluating Reli...
| (06-02-2025, 12:35 PM)SteveII Wrote: Danu had a great question in another thread. As I thought about it more and more and my answer got longer and longer, I thought the topic deserved to have it's o... |
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06-10-2025, 12:31 PM |
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Thread: Facts, Evidence, and Proof: Untangling the Concepts
Post: RE: Facts, Evidence, and Proof: Untangling the Con...
| (06-09-2025, 05:33 PM)SteveII Wrote: (06-09-2025, 04:40 PM)Paleophyte Wrote: Your problem are the phrases "in the absence of any relevant evidence" and "all the possible outcomes". You've defined ... |
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06-09-2025, 08:28 PM |
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Thread: Facts, Evidence, and Proof: Untangling the Concepts
Post: RE: Facts, Evidence, and Proof: Untangling the Con...
| (06-09-2025, 04:06 PM)SteveII Wrote: (06-07-2025, 12:25 AM)polymath257 Wrote: Well, that is one possible hypothesis. But without actual evidence, making such a claim is going *way* beyond anything... |
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Thread: Facts, Evidence, and Proof: Untangling the Concepts
Post: RE: Facts, Evidence, and Proof: Untangling the Con...
| (06-06-2025, 03:23 PM)SteveII Wrote: (06-05-2025, 12:41 PM)polymath257 Wrote: There are two difficulties.
1. We don't know the laws of the physical universe. So we don't know when they are violat... |
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Thread: Facts, Evidence, and Proof: Untangling the Concepts
Post: RE: Facts, Evidence, and Proof: Untangling the Con...
| (06-04-2025, 06:32 PM)SteveII Wrote: (06-04-2025, 03:23 PM)epronovost Wrote: This is a problem caused by your definition of supernatural which defines itself on the negative instead of a positive.... |
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Thread: Facts, Evidence, and Proof: Untangling the Concepts
Post: RE: Facts, Evidence, and Proof: Untangling the Con...
| (06-04-2025, 02:41 PM)SteveII Wrote: (06-03-2025, 07:29 PM)polymath257 Wrote: I would disagree. We would probably expect to find evidence of aliens first in some other way than their deception usi... |
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Thread: Facts, Evidence, and Proof: Untangling the Concepts
Post: RE: Facts, Evidence, and Proof: Untangling the Con...
| (05-30-2025, 04:45 PM)Paleophyte Wrote: (05-30-2025, 04:34 PM)polymath257 Wrote: A better explanation of the 'burning bush', supposing such could be verified to have existed, would be a simple pro... |
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Thread: Facts, Evidence, and Proof: Untangling the Concepts
Post: RE: Facts, Evidence, and Proof: Untangling the Con...
| (06-02-2025, 12:45 PM)SteveII Wrote: (06-01-2025, 12:13 PM)Dānu Wrote: Did he say that he was presupposing naturalism? Are you arguing that there is no way to reach such a conclusion without ques... |
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