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We don’t know some of these limitations of science without testing. Of what practical use is a religious answer if we don’t know it’s correct? The notion that some god is looking out for you might provide comfort, but it’s not going to do much in determining if the bridge ahead is safe.

And we know religion gives us wrong answers, because there is more than one religion, and some of the answers are in conflict. We don’t know what’s beyond our grasp unless we try to find out. And we keep expanding our knowledge.

If there’s a leak in the filtration system, isolating it would allow one to measure the pool level change and see if it reverted to the evaporation value, rather than probing the ground.

You posted “Besides pretending to be making progress on a "warp drive" Elon is also claiming A "Revolutionary Anti-Gravity Fighter Jet."” and “That is how easily Elon lies” which is quite clear in saying that claims are from Musk. If you’re going to go on about people posting misleading stuff, perhaps you should get your own house in order.

So children should be subjected to authoritarian regimes?

No, physics and chemistry do not present an orbital as an orbit. Finding an electron in one place is not the same as having a trajectory. That said, you can induce a dipole moment in atoms, which accounts for e.g. the London dispersion attraction and Debye forces

Sure. There are things we don’t understand. The fun of science is figuring them out.

Which in no way contradicts the statement “The mechanisms for evolution are better understood than you think.” but this is a thread about religion, not science, and unanswered questions of science are not evidence of a supreme being.

So you are literally making a god-of-the-gaps argument.

When the pool stops draining, you'll know what the height of the leak is.

And I’m saying details matter. Saying doctors can disagree is not saying they will. You don’t specify how often this happens, or under what circumstances, which might lead someone to conclude it happens more often than it does. Science strives for precision. Being vague is the enemy.

Precisely. They can’t all be most powerful. So in that case “if the God exists, it must be, by definition, the most powerful deity and the most poweful beings” can’t be a true statement

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What kind of pool is it? When I was growing up the neighbors had an above-ground pool and the older kids would snorkel in it, looking for holes in the liner. Might also work for cracks in an in-ground pool. If the leak is fast enough, dye in the water might show a leak.

Sure there is. You watch, they win. That disproves it. What you can’t do is prove or disprove it by not watching. You’ve mistakenly assumes that making a free throw is random with a 50-50 chance, and it’s not. You don’t know the average until you have the statistics, and this is possibly confounded by the fact that you can improve with practice. You need to be looking at a properly-formulated situation, which you have not done. Can’t really comment on that without an example; this is too vague. One issue with meta-analysis is it’s not difficult to mess it up by using data sets that don’t have identical conditions. This can lead to Simpson’s paradox (though it’s not really a paradox) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson's_paradox Again, you need specific examples, rather than vague descriptions.

I recall the vending machines in France (~25 years ago) sold diet coke…in 100 ml cans. And there are foods available in the US that are banned in other countries because of preservatives, dyes or trans fats, all thought to impact health. Allowed in the US because of lobbying putting corporate profits first.

And if there's more than one?

It must happen often enough if people are trying to treat it https://sleep-doctor.com/blog/does-your-own-snoring-wake-you-up-from-sleep/ https://www.tmjandsleep.com.au/articles/does-own-snoring-wake-you-up-from-sleep/ Not really, since your position is that it doesn’t happen. If it happens at all, it means you’re aware. Not waking up doesn’t necessarily mean you didn’t hear, since you can ignore sounds that aren’t surprising or threatening.

That’s not obvious to me why, and people can wake themselves because of their snoring. Have you ever been awakened by a noise? I have. How can that happen if you aren’t aware?

Did you mean to say this? Anyway, when I dream, I am aware of myself. And from others’ descriptions of dreams, it’s clear that they are aware of themselves. If you aren’t aware of yourself, perhaps that’s unusual? In any event, it’s not universal.

It’s not clear here if you think 10 AU is how far you need to disperse the material. The wikipedia article says “All scales larger than the Jeans length are unstable to gravitational collapse, whereas smaller scales are stable” which implies spreading the material far apart would be an unstable situation. What’s happening is that by spreading the material out the density drops, increasing the Jeans length, but the size of the cloud is smaller than 10AU, so the thermal energy exceeds the magnitude of the gravitational energy. The Jeans length is where they are equal. (It also seems that the analysis ignores the role of inelastic scattering in the process, which I’m sure astrophysicists have noticed, so it’s a more subtle situation, that is, the Jeans length would not be constant in time for a given mass and size)

Fusion would stop and you’re causing an expansion of the gas. So lower, but the sun doesn't have a uniform temperature. As TheVat implied, it’s not a trivial exercise to determine that.

There’s also policy; we know that pollution causes health problems, and government policy sometimes works to undermine protections that could be put in place (by framing it as regulation inhibiting business) There was a recent story about a community that got rid of fluoride in its drinking water and saw a significant spike in dental procedures within a few years. So policy definitely has an impact on health outcomes.

Oh, is that all you’d have to do? </sarcasm>

You don’t dream, aware of yourself?