Posted on 03/09/2005 12:36:05 PM PST by Heartlander
"The Secrets of the Vaulted Sky" is a book promoting astrology. Check my link to Amazon.
monkey worship bump
"ID predicts consciousness does not come from mindlessness."
The argument that intelligence requires a creator doesn't wash, if that were true then something had to create the creator, and so on ad infinitum
So, he's a secular Jew who believes in astrology-- at least he's not one of those evil Christians!
I'm sorry, but probably everyone has one or more unproven beliefs, even beliefs that most others would consider whacked. It doesn't invalidate their opinions in other areas or their cognitive abilities . I believe in God (which belief many consider un-proven, although I don't) and I'm also very good at math, and I believe that conservative political views and positions are best for the country. One does not invalidate the others.
Heh, heh, bump.
>> this is wrong. They have gotten fruit flies to live longer.<<
Were they still fruit flies?
are you going to read all the posts or just ignore those as well?
No, they were "lived-longer" fruit flies, a new species !!!
Spanning the development of astrology from Sumerian origins to Nazi court astrologers, Berlinski's ruminative but shallow history seeks to rescue it from what he sees as the misconceived derision of modern science. The author of A Tour of the Calculus remains coyly agnostic about astrology's validity. He calls it a "finely geared tool for the resolution of practical problems" and cites many successful predictions and a statistical study supposedly verifying the "Mars effect" on athletic talent, but when faced with the incoherent, metaphorical techniques by which astrologers interpret their charts, he can only shrug that since smart people used to listen to astrologers, there must be something to it.
Berlinsky's books on calculus and algorithms were rather poor. I read both. Neither was competently written.
As I understand ID, all of them actually.
Creationism on the other hand allows all to go extinct except for man
thank you...Berlinski is terrific
More misinformation from the anti-science crowd. QED doesn't work at all in a strong gravitational field. They still can't solve multibody problems. Plus they certainly can't measure anything to 13 decimal places. They're still working on 3.
Early experimental work indicated that the magnetic moment of the electron has a slight deviation of approximately 0.1% from the value expected from QED. This deviation is known as the anomalous magnetic moment and the size of this deviation between theoretical and experimental values establishes a strong bound on the validity of QED.
But if someone wants to, they can do some homework here.
please list the 10 'species' between ape and Man
From a Mathematical Reviews comment about another of Berlinski's books (Newton's gift): "But what is said of Newton's mathematics has only a weak connection with Newton's texts."
If intelligent design is true, and God really did create all of the species, shouldn't conservatives act to preserve every last one of them? I mean, every insignificant corpse-maggot or jungle-spider was put here on Earth BY GOD, LORD JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF, as an act of divine love & design & whatnot.
Me, I'm comfortable with a little extinction here and there.
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