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  1. exchemist

    Is Academia "Dominated" by "the Left", and If so, Why?

    Universities have always been a bit radical, from medieval times. You have young people with intelligence and read books, some of whom thereby become idealists - but who have little money or possessions, so have little stake in the status quo ante. There are exceptions of course (like @Rival ;)...
  2. exchemist

    Arcades

    None. At university I played Pacman and Space Invaders in the pub a few times. But this was in the 1970s. I'm not sure arcades were even a thing then.
  3. exchemist

    The Four Dirty Secrets Against Darwin Evolution

    Me too, it's just the abstract I was referring to. But even that is a nice overview, highlighting as it does the unresolved challenge of integrating the triad of replication, metabolisim and compartmentalisation (membranes and such).
  4. exchemist

    The Four Dirty Secrets Against Darwin Evolution

    Got anything I can read? I haven't the patience for videos. Actually, just the names of researchers I can look up would be good. I stress it is synthetic replicating systems, simulating primordial Earth conditions, that I am after, not just a general resumé of abiogenesis.
  5. exchemist

    The Four Dirty Secrets Against Darwin Evolution

    I was (still am by training), I do and I am not familiar with this. So either the information is wrong, or it refers to something I have not recognised from the way it is being described. The state of the art as far as I can see is represented by this: From self-replication to replicator systems...
  6. exchemist

    The Four Dirty Secrets Against Darwin Evolution

    Can you supply a reference please?
  7. exchemist

    Let's start at the beginning? maybe?

    It is populations of organisms that evolve. The reference to the size of the gene pool that can interbreed is a way of defining the relevant population. The relevant definition has to be the population that can interbreed, since it is by interbreeding within a population that traits are passed...
  8. exchemist

    The Four Dirty Secrets Against Darwin Evolution

    Your (1) is incorrect. We do have an excellent theory of how "non-organic (the correct term is "inorganic") substances were put together. Elements were created by a process of fusion in stars, and then these elements formed compounds according to the well-established processes of chemistry, in...
  9. exchemist

    I grow increasingly suspicious

    Eh? Are we onto aural sex now?:oops:
  10. exchemist

    How is my math:

    I remember learning BODMAS at school in about 1964. My son learnt a slightly different mnemonic for the same thing in about 2014. So yeah 105. Unless you are going to tell us that the * symbol for some reason is to be applied in a different order from x, in which I look forward to your...
  11. exchemist

    Do humsters have souls?

    A new take on pet shop boys? :laughing:
  12. exchemist

    Is there such a thing as a universal religion?

    Actually, Schrödinger was very much taken with the Hindu Upanishads, especially when he was struggling with the Copenhagen interpretation. And Oppenheimer of course quoted that line from the Bhagavad Gita when the bomb went off. But I'm not aware that Feynman was interested in Hinduism.
  13. exchemist

    Is there such a thing as a universal religion?

    The way I read the analogy is that Hinduism (apparently) does not say any one of them is the only true path. Unless I have misinterpreted it.
  14. exchemist

    Is there such a thing as a universal religion?

    I suspect Richard Feynman would propose a path integral.:cool:
  15. exchemist

    Is there such a thing as a universal religion?

    Though Christianity did manage to take root in Northern Europe, a long way from its roots in the Eastern Med. The dominance - and longevity - of the Roman Empire is what I suppose must have enabled that.
  16. exchemist

    Is there such a thing as a universal religion?

    There are about half a million Japanese Catholics, though, as a result of the Jesuit mission in the c.16th. My singing teacher in The Hague* was one. But it's true that is <0.5% of the population of Japan.:) I suspect you are probably right. Religions consist of a lot more than ideas about...
  17. exchemist

    The Four Dirty Secrets Against Darwin Evolution

    To your first question, the body of religious scholarship I have drawn your attention to (N.B. it is not a question of what I think) indeed considers the "image" term does not mean something literally visible. To your second question, the context (always important not to quote mine;) ) is that...
  18. exchemist

    The Four Dirty Secrets Against Darwin Evolution

    Yes, it seems the Miller-Urey experiment has become totemic for certain people that don’t keep up with science. It was over 70 years ago and its achievements were quite modest. But it did indicate one natural pathway for biochemical compounds to form, so its significance really was that it...
  19. exchemist

    I grow increasingly suspicious

    Il y a un verbe "miauler", apparemment. That's a new word for me.
  20. exchemist

    The Four Dirty Secrets Against Darwin Evolution

    Not if the reference is figurative, which is how it has been interpreted throughout history. The link I gave you goes into how this phrase has been interpreted in both the Jewish and Christian traditions. None of them suggest it is intended to mean something you see physically.
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