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“You might expect that this [distribution] would differ quite significantly between the three different sets of equations because they come from different places” … but you would be wrong to expect this. (it’s not “you expect” which is predictive. “you might expect” is cautionary) It’s what one could call a naive expectation. There are a limited number of mathematical forms, and relationships between variables are not random. Kinetic energy, for example, depends on speed squared. It’s not random. They’re related. Without knowing exactly what they looked at it’s impossible to know what the context is, but physics is interconnected in some interesting ways, so things that might seem random are not. And it’s ironic that you’re suggesting some deep meaning to this when you are arguing by quote mining, which is quite superficial and avoids deeper investigation. And “we don’t know” does not imply either some deep meaning, nor does it imply that something should not happen. You still have not shown that this shouldn’t happen, as you claimed.

Military desires have long driven technological advances. Jet engines, radar, GPS are just recent examples. So, basically, nothing has stopped it.

Where is that quote from? I don’t understand the context. Not knowing why something shows up is very different from saying it should not. You’re just deflecting. Can you back up your claim?

Should not be occurring? How do you figure that? What principle does it violate?

! Moderator Note Do you have any evidence to support your conjecture, or any mainstream scientific basis for it? ! Moderator Note It doesn’t matter what you believe. Posting that is just soapboxing. What matters is what you can show, based on actual occurrences or mainstream psychology/sociology/anthropology.

What are you doing - searching for “bias” in articles so you can post your “findings”? Which are based on linguistic choices of journalists, rather than any actual analysis. 1. Zipf’s law shows up in more than physics; it was originally applied to language. 2. No mention of methodology. I can write V=IR and also I=V/R. Does that count as a multiply and a divide? 3. Physics doesn’t aim to explain reality, it describes how nature behaves. It also works. V=IR is what you actually measure in a resistive circuit. How is that a biased interpretation of facts?

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Vanity is not a valid scientific reason for a special classification. The differences you point out are few compared to the similarities, and tied into humans having bigger brains, but it’s still brains, not some unique gland.

No, it doesn’t; it’s why we’re a separate species. What your claim ignores is the existence of ancestors to humans, and how they are related to other species. Humans and other apes have a common ancestor, and hominids have a common ancestor with other families. When you go back far enough in the fossil record, there are no homo sapiens.

Given the number of denominations of Christianity, I don’t think you can lay more than a tiny fraction of blame on atheists for having an interpretation. Get your own houses (all 45k+) in order.

To me, it means that the alleged niceness/morality is a facade - you’re not being nice because you’re a nice person - and your actions are driven by the fear. Which is actually moral: not harming someone because you’ll get in trouble, or not harming someone because you feel it’s wrong? What’s the context? Why do a whole lot of people decide that some of those behaviors are wrong?

She’s omniscient, so it’s not like it would be a surprise. And giving beings a sex drive and not telling them how babies are made seems like intent.

There’s no guarantee that it’s the religion, though, and if one group had a dramatically lower risk for some other reason (so there’s a correlation without causality), it skews the results, especially if it’s in one of the over-represented groups in the study. There’s also the note about suicide attempts being under-reported in the religious, owing to the stigma, which can also skew the results.

I’m glad I moved away from light pollution. I have a much better view to the N and NW but was clouded out of several events of the last 6 months (eclipse, both times the northern lights were super active, one meteor shower peak) The iphone takes surprisingly good sky pictures; that was 2 or 3 seconds. I wonder if it’s stacking short exposures to compensate for camera movement.

“Among the subjects who reported a religious affiliation (N=305), the specific denominations endorsed were Catholicism (41.0%, N=125), Protestantism (28.5%, N=87), Judaism (17.4%, N=53), and other (13.1%, N=40).” N=371, so 66 were atheist/agnostic, or 17.8% But “When Americans are asked to check a box indicating their religious affiliation, 28% now check 'none.' A new study from Pew Research finds that the religiously unaffiliated – a group comprised of atheists, agnostic and those who say their religion is "nothing in particular" – is now the largest cohort in the U.S. They're more prevalent among American adults than Catholics (23%) or evangelical Protestants (24%).” https://www.npr.org/2024/01/24/1226371734/religious-nones-are-now-the-largest-single-group-in-the-u-s So if this sampling was random, it seems like atheists are less likely to be depressed, and Catholics and Jews (2.4% of the population) are much more likely to be depressed. If it’s not random then the study is horribly skewed

It finally emerged from behind the trees in my front yard (I had to stand at the very end of my driveway to see it) photo with hand-held iPhone

Leviticus 19:27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. Oh? Isn’t Leviticus 18 and 19 just a list of rules set out by God? And we’re back to the Bible not being a good source of morals

Why not slavery? We have pretty specific language about it in much shorter secular documents, because we consider it pretty important. There’s specific language about not having tattoos and not cutting your hair, not wearing clothes made with more than one kind of cloth, or planting more than one kind of seed.

“Be seen to make the correct moral choice.” If you are only making your choice to be seen making it, it suggests you don’t really want to make that choice. Is that morality? Or just fear?

There are independents and third-party elected officials, but not large blocs of them. It rarely crops up as a problem. There are blocs within each party that are more of an issue

If they insist that this is the solution, then there needs to be independent experimental evidence. Otherwise it’s just numerology, as MigL pointed out.

I don’t know, but you need independent evidence of these SU(3) atoms.

A lot of legislation doesn’t become active immediately. You could easily implement things months later, for most changes.

Yes, he said that, and no, of course they didn’t.

Which is not experimental evidence of some new particle.