tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post8770602101882017054..comments2024-03-28T13:15:29.740-07:00Comments on Metacrock's Blog: Outrage and Incredulity:The Athiest Assertion of No Evidence.Joseph Hinman (Metacrock)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06957529748541493998noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-54520635905680351742009-03-18T20:24:00.000-07:002009-03-18T20:24:00.000-07:00This is a very good synthesis of most of your majo...This is a very good synthesis of most of your major arguments, Joe. I enjoyed reading it.Kristenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08252374623355509404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-15943652758129686102009-03-18T08:51:00.000-07:002009-03-18T08:51:00.000-07:00With respect to ESP, people have been doing experi...With respect to ESP, people have been doing experiments for over a century, and there has been NO credible, ie: repeatable, experiments that have validated any sort of supernatural experience.<BR/><BR/><BR/><B>I think there have been. As soon as an experiment yeilds any results its automatically not credible because it yeilded results. that's part of the circular reasoning of naturaism.<BR/><BR/>Moreover, esp is not the supernatural. that kind of mistake that feeds atheist ideology and keeps their disinformation going. they just stteadfastly refuse to learn the real definitions of things.</B><BR/><BR/>With Respect to the Big Bang Cosmology, if you study Einstein's equation for a perfect fluid, as space is, you can see that it is unstable w.r.t. its first covariant derivative. Thus, it is fully capable of rapid, spontaneous expansion.<BR/><BR/><BR/><B>that has noting to do with anything. you have still have prior conditions that you can't explain. Why does reality contain some sort of pre conceived idea about perfect fluids? there would have to be some kind of "law" making it work that, why is that the case? where do laws come from?<BR/><BR/>you still have to account for the universe structure, gravitational field, what is it that "expands?"</B><BR/><BR/>G_{/mu/nu} - /lambda g_{/mu/nu} = fract({-8*/pi*G_N}{c^4}}*T_{/mu/nu} with summations over /mu and /nu, g is the metric tensor, G is the curvature of spacetime, and T is the stress-energy tensor.<BR/><BR/>I hope your blog enables LaTeX, if not, please check out Wikipdia's entry on GR to see the equation in its full formulation.<BR/><BR/><B>that doesn't prove anything becasue it still assume prior conditions that you can't account for.</B>Joseph Hinman (Metacrock)https://www.blogger.com/profile/06957529748541493998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-32136583813890961172009-03-18T08:46:00.000-07:002009-03-18T08:46:00.000-07:00Atheists on the internet express their outrage for...Atheists on the internet express their outrage for two reasons:<BR/><BR/>1) The perceived damage that religionists have done and continue to do to the world, and;<BR/><BR/><BR/><B>which is proved to be nonsense:<BR/><BR/>(1) hundreds of studies show religion is the best thing for you<BR/><BR/>(2) a lot of the atheist arguments come from misreading the statistics. I've demonstrated this several times. I've even shown that some of their major websites that display such arguments fabricate the data.</B><BR/><BR/>2) like everyone else on the internet, they are bored and possessed of a surfeit of time. (Indeed, hence this comment.)<BR/><BR/><BR/><B>so get them a hobby. let them take up bird watching. Let them go write nasty emails to AIG or something.</B><BR/><BR/>And regarding atheism itself, there is strong atheism (the arrogant blowhards) and weak atheism (the silent majority). By definition, you only hear from the blowhards.<BR/><BR/><BR/><B>maybe</B><BR/><BR/>Very Weakly Yours,<BR/><BR/>A weak atheist<BR/><BR/><BR/>P.S. I found your blog because I just watched Bergman's "Through A Glass Darkly" -- which you wrote about -- and was semi-convinced that the kid had sex with his sister when they were in the rotten old boat, and did some Googling to see if anyone else had reached this conclusion. Apparently not. (Though, in fairness, I give up easily.)<BR/><BR/><BR/><B>I thought it was pretty obvious. I don't know about "hard" but I agree there was an incestuous thing there between then and that scene is meant to imply that.</B><BR/><BR/>9:09 PMJoseph Hinman (Metacrock)https://www.blogger.com/profile/06957529748541493998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-28008183979823715222009-03-18T08:06:00.000-07:002009-03-18T08:06:00.000-07:00Hi,With respect to ESP, people have been doing exp...Hi,<BR/><BR/>With respect to ESP, people have been doing experiments for over a century, and there has been NO credible, ie: repeatable, experiments that have validated any sort of supernatural experience.<BR/><BR/>With Respect to the Big Bang Cosmology, if you study Einstein's equation for a perfect fluid, as space is, you can see that it is unstable w.r.t. its first covariant derivative. Thus, it is fully capable of rapid, spontaneous expansion.<BR/><BR/>G_{/mu/nu} - /lambda g_{/mu/nu} = fract({-8*/pi*G_N}{c^4}}*T_{/mu/nu} with summations over /mu and /nu, g is the metric tensor, G is the curvature of spacetime, and T is the stress-energy tensor.<BR/><BR/>I hope your blog enables LaTeX, if not, please check out <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_field_equations" REL="nofollow">Wikipdia's entry on GR</A> to see the equation in its full formulation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-66819253071550526312009-03-17T21:09:00.000-07:002009-03-17T21:09:00.000-07:00Atheists on the internet express their outrage for...Atheists on the internet express their outrage for two reasons:<BR/><BR/>1) The perceived damage that religionists have done and continue to do to the world, and;<BR/><BR/>2) like everyone else on the internet, they are bored and possessed of a surfeit of time. (Indeed, hence this comment.)<BR/><BR/>And regarding atheism itself, there is strong atheism (the arrogant blowhards) and weak atheism (the silent majority). By definition, you only hear from the blowhards.<BR/><BR/>Very Weakly Yours,<BR/><BR/>A weak atheist<BR/><BR/><BR/>P.S. I found your blog because I just watched Bergman's "Through A Glass Darkly" -- which you wrote about -- and was semi-convinced that the kid had sex with his sister when they were in the rotten old boat, and did some Googling to see if anyone else had reached this conclusion. Apparently not. (Though, in fairness, I give up easily.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-8192922161910884632009-03-17T17:31:00.000-07:002009-03-17T17:31:00.000-07:00so I take it you never read Thomas Kuhn?so I take it you never read Thomas Kuhn?Joseph Hinman (Metacrock)https://www.blogger.com/profile/06957529748541493998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-28660777159643691812009-03-17T14:07:00.000-07:002009-03-17T14:07:00.000-07:00Hello J.L.,There can never be a paradigm shift awa...Hello J.L.,<BR/><BR/>There can never be a paradigm shift away from the truth. It lives eternally and is stronger than public or personal opinion.mmfiorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07649185144011409332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-17714907101411988492009-03-17T06:24:00.000-07:002009-03-17T06:24:00.000-07:00the problem is there will be another paradigm shif...the problem is there will be another paradigm shift some day then even your stuff will be relegated as old anomalies. <BR/><BR/>It really doesn't have anything to do with physics. It has to do with the way the human mind learns.Joseph Hinman (Metacrock)https://www.blogger.com/profile/06957529748541493998noreply@blogger.com