Citizenschallenge-v.3

<i>Can’t help it, sometimes the muse just hits me.  We’ll see what i think 0f it in the morning, hope you don’t mind me using CFI for a test run</i>

<i> – night, night</i>

It was good news hearing that the ballot measure creating Southwest LaPlata Library District passed.  That it passed by a somewhat narrow margin makes me think that many im…

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I think a lot of people get that.

Then why does it seem that pretty near nobody gets this?

Cool, game on.

Oh if anyone has any thoughts regarding where I might cut 150 words, meaning probably a complete paragraph or thereabouts please do share.

Even if that were not true your claim would still be wild speculation as it leaves no room for future scientific understanding.

When I was a kid it was scientifically impossible for hummingbirds to fly, but they still did.

We didn’t have the scientific understanding to know why.

But that didn’t mean it was “logically impossible” for humming…

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I’ve given it my shot.  Others around here have a deeper appreciation of these issues, your turn:

Holmes has written:  If you can show that a scientific theory for some event can be defined that does not rely on scientific laws then I’ll admit error, until that time I consider my position logically sound.

I know that we aren’t supposed to repost comments, but in this case I ask for a dispensation because it is relevant to the flow of this discussion.

Holmes’ lets try to focus on substance.  I’ve done my best, please a good faith response would be very cool.

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November 10, 2019 at 2:56 pm

If by explanation you…

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So smug, so self-sure.
This is an ad-hominem attack.

Holmes, it may have been an unnecessary insult, but Ad-hominem?  Do you really understand what Ad-hominem is about?

Ad hominem (Latin for “to the person”),[1] short for argumentum ad hominem, typically refers to a fallacious argumentative strategy whereby genuine discussion of the topic at hand…

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If by explanation you mean a purely physical, mechanistic explanation then you have to explain why you are insisting on that limitation, if Y can only be explained in terms of X yet I will only accept an explanation in terms of Z then clearly there’s going to some difficulties.

I get the impression you think science is about what your logical m…[Read more]

Sensitive are we?

Funny how you set yourself up, and then are shocked, simply shocked, that anyone would lob one right back at ya.

If Holmes can provide a link to a serious scientist within the field saying: ‘We Will Be Able To Prove The Mechanism For Life Origins Beyond Any Doubt.’

That I would like to see.

I’m betting you can’t…

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Funny fella.

Actually it’s an example of those superior Religious Morals, stuff that evolution doesn’t teach humanity.

Holmes: Only an explanation that does not rely in material quantities will work

Holmes: Every scientific explanation leverages material processes.

Therefore the origin of the material processes themselves must leverage material processes

if the explanation for them is to be a scientific one.

So smug, so self-sure.

It’s like you think the…[Read more]

Holmes:  Only an explanation that does not rely in material quantities will work

and then that explanation would by definition not be a scientific explanation but a supernatural one.

Genus wrote:  What I said was it’s very likely that “universal consciousness” exists prior to the human capacity to experience that consciousness and every individual enters into this universal consciousness to varying degrees. A person who is introspective to a very subtle degree is a very different kind of person from one who is crude and though…

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Widdershins writes,
CC: “No, what I’m talking about is called Democracy run by an informed and engaged citizenry.”
What is this “informed and engaged citizenry” you speak of?  You mean unicorns?

Unicorns never existed.  The First Amendment of America’s Constitution reads,

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or proh…

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Yeah, but they didn’t get that way by themselves.  Democrats need to focus on the folks doing all this brainwashing.  Expose the tactics and figure out how to defend honesty – perhaps even the American sense of FairPlay, and all that.  I mean if you’ve decided that nothing the other says will change your mind, hasn’t that crossed over into ge…[Read more]

T rump has reversed, undermined, or otherwise demolished all of the progress begun by Obama, seemingly just because they were by Obama.

No surprise there.   He has depended on discrediting and marginalizing Obama from the gitgo and so so many went along, hell many supported the slanders and kept them front page news.  That they were absolute l…[Read more]

Just fun’n with you T.  Here’s one for the team.     😉

Ah, to be an American.  Nothing like it.  Seriously.

Still, how is it the great author put’s it, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.