On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
> I am an agnostic...I'd rather call myself an ignorantic, as I feel I just
> don't know.. I am still unable to decide clearly if there is a God, or there
> isn't. (Except, of course, the God who dwells in the bathroom, and makes the
> mother s
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Heather Madrone wrote:
> On 11/28/10 11:37 PM November 28, 2010, Deepa Mohan wrote:
>>
>> Who are the ones who believe in God, on this list? The atheists? The
>> agnostics?
>
> I believe it's a category error to talk about belief or lack of belief in
> God. The ques
On 11/28/10 11:37 PM November 28, 2010, Deepa Mohan wrote:
Who are the ones who believe in God, on this list? The atheists? The
agnostics?
I believe it's a category error to talk about belief or lack of belief
in God. The question should raise a "CONCRETE OPERATOR INVALID ON
ABSTRACT OBJECT
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan
wrote:
> Even Einstein believed in God.
Are you basing this on the "God does not play dice" statement?
Thaths
--
Marge: Quick, somebody perform CPR!
Homer: Umm (singing) I see a bad moon rising.
Marge: That's CCR!
Homer: Looks like we're in f
On 29 November 2010 13:07, Deepa Mohan wrote:
>
> I googled IIRC:
>
> AcronymDefinitionIIRCIf I Recall/Remember/Recall Correctly IIRCInteractive
> Illinois Report CardIIRCIf I Read CorrectlyIIRCIf I Really Cared IIRCImage
> and Identity Research CollectiveIIRCImpedance Imaging Research Center
> (K
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Kiran K Karthikeyan <
kiran.karthike...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> IIRC his major issue was with the Uncertainty Principle, which as far as I
> know hasn't been disproved. Once you accept that science, even his
> definition of God seems superstitious and starts sounding
On 28 November 2010 11:08, Sriram Karra wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Sriram Karra wrote:
> >>
> >> Even Einstein believed in God.
> >>
> >> Kiran
> >>
> >
> > If "God" refers to a supernatural power who created and sustains the
> > world and listens to prayers and doles out favours
Has anyone read Alistair MacLean's Circus? It talks about matter and anti
matter and the two of them cancelling each other out with a resounding
explosion.
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 09:26:43PM +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote:
>
> > ..and as far as I c
On Nov 26, 2010, at 3:03 PM, Charles Haynes wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 4:29 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan
> wrote:
>
>> Even Einstein believed in God.
>
> Einstein also believed in hidden variables and disbelieved in spooky
> action at a distance.
>
> ... and he was wrong.
As a point of peda
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Sriram Karra wrote:
>>
>> Even Einstein believed in God.
>>
>> Kiran
>>
>
> If "God" refers to a supernatural power who created and sustains the
> world and listens to prayers and doles out favours to the faithful,
> then Einstein certainly did not believe in God.
>
> Even Einstein believed in God.
>
> Kiran
>
If "God" refers to a supernatural power who created and sustains the
world and listens to prayers and doles out favours to the faithful,
then Einstein certainly did not believe in God.
Richard Dawkins' God Delusion goes into this very misconception i
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 4:29 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan
wrote:
> Even Einstein believed in God.
Einstein also believed in hidden variables and disbelieved in spooky
action at a distance.
... and he was wrong.
-- Charles
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan
wrote:
> Even Einstein believed in God.
Superstition is hard to root out. -T
On 26 November 2010 22:34, Deepa Mohan wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Kiran K Karthikeyan
>
>> Isn't that the whole point of science? To investigate without these
>> encumberances? So that one day all of them fall within the realm of science
>> and there are no more et ceteras?
>
On 26-Nov-10 10:37 PM, Madhu Menon wrote:
>> How do we deal with our discoveries? When does science start thinking
>> about spirituality? etc etc etc.
>
> That isn't the purpose of science.
Indeed: http://netropolis.in/silklist/msg00181.html
> Also see: "God of the gaps".
Is that like Cantor D
On 26-11-2010 21:54, Deepa Mohan wrote:
How do we deal with our discoveries? When does science start thinking
about spirituality? etc etc etc.
That isn't the purpose of science.
Also see: "God of the gaps".
--
Madhu Menon
http://twitter.com/madmanweb
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Kiran K Karthikeyan
> Isn't that the whole point of science? To investigate without these
> encumberances? So that one day all of them fall within the realm of science
> and there are no more et ceteras?
>
>
I firmly believe that there will always be et ceteras an
On 26 November 2010 21:54, Deepa Mohan wrote:
> How do we deal with our discoveries? When does science start thinking
>> about spirituality? etc etc etc.
>
>
Isn't that the whole point of science? To investigate without these
encumberances? So that one day all of them fall within the realm of s
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 09:54:31PM +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote:
> > Which dilemmas?
> >
> How do we deal with our discoveries?
If we don't like what we discover, we probably
should have thought about that a bit earlier.
(And the more interesting question: how will
our discoveries deal with us?)
>
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 09:26:43PM +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote:
>
> > ..and as far as I can see, the dilemmas that Dan Brown talked about in
> the
> > novel...still remain.
>
> Which dilemmas?
>
> How do we deal with our discoveries? When does sc
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 09:26:43PM +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote:
> ..and as far as I can see, the dilemmas that Dan Brown talked about in the
> novel...still remain.
Which dilemmas?
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> As far as I can see, this is a Very Big Deal.
>
> Udhay
>
>
> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=antimatter-confined&WT.mc_id=SA_WR_20101123
>
..and as far as I can see, the dilemmas that Dan Brown talked about in the
novel
As far as I can see, this is a Very Big Deal.
Udhay
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=antimatter-confined&WT.mc_id=SA_WR_20101123
Upping the Anti: CERN Physicists Trap Antimatter Atoms for the First Time
Antihydrogen has been produced before, but it must be corralled for
detailed
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