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Everything posted by jcd11235
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Yes. Without calling anyone; stupid, liar, or attacking their belief system, or even their ideology. We used to do it. I've not seen that as anything but the exception as long as I've been a member. It's never been the norm, at least not in SC. (To be fair. the mods have always done a pretty good job of keeping things from getting out of hand.) Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!
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Arguments for (or against) the existence of God
jcd11235 replied to scottbre's topic in Speakers Corner
More than any of those jobs, being a scientist is a mindset. One doesn't turn it off when they go home at 5:00. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials! -
And that's why you have no credibility when it comes to science. Do you ignore weather forecasts, too? When they are more than a week out, yes I ignore them. Since climate is much less variable than weather, climatologists can make predictions much further into the future at the same accuracy and level of confidence as meteorologists making short term weather forecasts. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!
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Arguments for (or against) the existence of God
jcd11235 replied to scottbre's topic in Speakers Corner
Science is all about reaching justifiable, logical conclusions with incomplete information. Science allows us to disprove falsifiable hypotheses, not prove them. So, if having complete information is your bar, the all science is conjecture. Yet, here we are, with television, smart phones, Mars rovers, GPS, etc. If we had complete information, there would be no unanswered questions. And your god of the gaps would be long dead instead of just dying a slow and painful death. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials! -
Arguments for (or against) the existence of God
jcd11235 replied to scottbre's topic in Speakers Corner
So cosmologists working on cosmology is not science? Got it. Thank you for demonstrating my point. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials! -
And that's why you have no credibility when it comes to science. Do you ignore weather forecasts, too? Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!
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Arguments for (or against) the existence of God
jcd11235 replied to scottbre's topic in Speakers Corner
Don't look now, but you've just explained why having faith would handicap someone as a scientist. It is wholly objective to seek to understand how the universe began. Seeking to expand human knowledge is not biased, except towards the truth. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials! -
Islamic State Members From the West Seek Help Getting Home
jcd11235 replied to Phil1111's topic in Speakers Corner
Realistically, I doubt it. It would be easy enough to change their minds, with no deportation and no treason conviction. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials! -
Arguments for (or against) the existence of God
jcd11235 replied to scottbre's topic in Speakers Corner
Once again, you conveniently miss the point. No one is claiming he proved a negative, or that proving a negative is even possible. Had Hawking had strong faith in a supreme being, he would have avoided such lines of inquiry altogether. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials! -
Arguments for (or against) the existence of God
jcd11235 replied to scottbre's topic in Speakers Corner
You could say that about reality in general. ******ETA: I wonder what the state of cosmology would be if Prof. Hawking subscribed to such supernatural nonsense. http://www.space.com/20710-stephen-hawking-god-big-bang.html Again, you simply make objective observations and effectively communicate the results without conjecture - free of a personal/social agenda and let the results speak for themselves - there is no reason to bring God into the mix. Besides, how would one be able to recognize God anyway if you don't know what you're looking for? So, you're saying one can maintain non-wavering faith in a creator while simultaneously proving objectively that no creator was necessary for the universe to begin? Um, good luck with that. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials! -
Arguments for (or against) the existence of God
jcd11235 replied to scottbre's topic in Speakers Corner
Provided it's not within the same person. ETA: I wonder what the state of cosmology would be if Prof. Hawking subscribed to such supernatural nonsense. http://www.space.com/20710-stephen-hawking-god-big-bang.html Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials! -
Islamic State Members From the West Seek Help Getting Home
jcd11235 replied to Phil1111's topic in Speakers Corner
Given that no war has been declared and we don't know if these idiots have been levying war against us or al Assad or some other of the myriad of groups over there, I think a treason charge would be hard to make stick. There's also the two witness requirement: "No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court." Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials! -
Arguments for (or against) the existence of God
jcd11235 replied to scottbre's topic in Speakers Corner
One cannot simultaneously embrace faith, as required by religion, and reject faith, as required by the scientific method, no matter how you try to rationalize the cognitive dissonance. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials! -
where is the "rape culture" in the Stanford rape case
jcd11235 replied to SivaGanesha's topic in Speakers Corner
No, he hasn't. Not by a long shot. The punishment for rape in California includes three (3), six (6) or eight (8) years in California state prison. My understanding is that in California, rape involves non-consensual sexual intercourse. Turner's actions, while despicable, apparently did not meet the legal definition of rape. At the very least, he was not tried for or convicted of rape. "Turner … was charged with five felony counts, later reduced to three: assault with intent to commit rape of an intoxicated or unconscious person, sexual penetration of an intoxicated person and sexual penetration of an unconscious person." Source I'm inclined to give the judge the benefit of the doubt with respect to the appropriateness of the sentence. I was not on the jury, nor did I sit through the testimony. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials! -
Arguments for (or against) the existence of God
jcd11235 replied to scottbre's topic in Speakers Corner
If you had evidence suggesting that your servers did spit in your food a meaningful proportion of the time, then your expectations would change. In other words, since you have no reason to believe your servers spit in your food, spitting in your food would be contrary to their job description (and probably a violation of health codes), and you (presumably) have not given your servers any reason to treat you badly, then the assumption that the null hypothesis holds, i.e., that they are performing their job as described and expected, is reasonable, since that's the most probable outcome. As long as you're open to (at least testing) an alternative hypothesis should new information inconsistent with the null hypothesis present itself, you're not taking anything on faith. You're accepting that something is probably true because it's more likely than the alternative given the available evidence. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials! -
Arguments for (or against) the existence of God
jcd11235 replied to scottbre's topic in Speakers Corner
You'll find, if you look in a dictionary, that faith indeed has multiple definitions. Further, if you read those definitions, you'll undoubtedly recognize that you switched from one to another in a futile effort to support your untenable position. I accept you concession, however ungraceful it might be. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials! -
Arguments for (or against) the existence of God
jcd11235 replied to scottbre's topic in Speakers Corner
Your insistence on the use of faith in that context is nonsensical. It's meaning is different from how faith has been used in the rest of the discussion. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials! -
Arguments for (or against) the existence of God
jcd11235 replied to scottbre's topic in Speakers Corner
scientific method => rejection of faith Now you're switching up definitions of faith. Have a strong desire for one's son to be successful at some pursuit or activity is not equivalent to having faith that a supreme being exists. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials! -
Arguments for (or against) the existence of God
jcd11235 replied to scottbre's topic in Speakers Corner
If you truly believed in the existence of a supreme being, wholly without evidence of such existence, you wouldn't be much of a scientist. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials! -
Arguments for (or against) the existence of God
jcd11235 replied to scottbre's topic in Speakers Corner
Faith != Love Incorrect, because faith and evidence based conclusions are at opposite ends of the same continuum. They are not orthogonal. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials! -
Arguments for (or against) the existence of God
jcd11235 replied to scottbre's topic in Speakers Corner
My comment about being a part-timer was in reference to your example of someone who is only devout on the weekends. No it isn't. To use your term, it is orthogonal to the faith evidence_based_conclusion axis. You're comparing apples and temperatures. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials! -
Arguments for (or against) the existence of God
jcd11235 replied to scottbre's topic in Speakers Corner
I don't think being a part-timer qualifies anyone as devout. Nonsense. That's not at all analogous. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials! -
Fair enough. That's what I meant, though I failed to write it that way. I'll own that. Agreed. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!
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You can decide you are not qualified; no one is better than you to make that call. It does NOT mean that no white person can be qualified. Not in absolute terms, no. However, one would be hard pressed to find a significant number of whites who have any understanding of what it's like to be a black man in America. The correlation is very strong, even if the R-squared value would be slightly less than 1. Possibly in some cases. In others, not at all. Nope, not even close. If we restrict the context to the plaintiffs of the case claiming a white judge would be biased, then I'd agree. Without such a restriction, you're using far too broad a brush, ignoring too many contributing factors. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!
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Arguments for (or against) the existence of God
jcd11235 replied to scottbre's topic in Speakers Corner
No. It was correct the way I wrote it, and far more analogous to your claim about early philosophers being great scientists than after your changes. No, they are not orthogonal. You seem to have an unconventional understanding of science. Most (correctly) understand that science requires one not take anything on faith, but to draw conclusions only when justified by the evidence/data. If one embraces faith, they've set themselves up for failure in science. If they reject faith, they've set themselves up for failure in religion. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!