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  1. LegionOnomaMoi

    What we mean by "there is no evidence for theism"

    Ok, this is what I should have said.
  2. LegionOnomaMoi

    What we mean by "there is no evidence for theism"

    I do most of my research these days in interdisciplinary fields and quantum foundations (and related areas). A nice thing about foundations is that questions which were largely "taboo" in physics (and often provoked open hostility) regarding what our best theories tell us about reality (or...
  3. LegionOnomaMoi

    Does randomness exist in nature?"

    If that were true, then QM would be deterministic. Classical mechanics makes use of the continuum. Specifically, Newtonian mechanics and extensions involve observables and units (distances, lengths, mass, momentum, time) that we treat in terms of intervals on product spaces of the real numbers...
  4. LegionOnomaMoi

    Does randomness exist in nature?"

    Here you go: Free randomness can be amplified That’s as good a place to start as many (albeit probably not any, but I don’t have unlimited time to determine the optimal starting place given the data), and here’s an accompanying video by one of the authors: Firstly, “predetermined” is not a...
  5. LegionOnomaMoi

    Quantum physics requires imaginary numbers to explain reality

    This is a presentation on this work by one of the team members I've made available:
  6. LegionOnomaMoi

    Evidence of the Non-Physical

    Absolutely. And in addition to coming quite close to developing the scientific endeavor in antiquity, Greek thought was absolutely fundamentally at play in early modern natural philosophy and more general academic/scholarly thought at the time. Indeed, I am not at all sure that one could have...
  7. LegionOnomaMoi

    Evidence of the Non-Physical

    Actually, I was quoting from a physics monograph there, you'd have to take that claim up with Haag. My claim is that the action principle was clearly and obviously a development from theological principles. Those who developed it were quite clear about their rationale. They happened to be right...
  8. LegionOnomaMoi

    Evidence of the Non-Physical

    "The orthodox view of the nature of the laws of physics contains a long list of tacitly assumed properties. The laws are regarded, for example, as immutable, eternal, infinitely precise mathematical relationships that transcend the physical universe, and were imprinted on it at the moment of its...
  9. LegionOnomaMoi

    Evidence of the Non-Physical

    I'm not sure it qualifies as a an argument from ignorance fallacy, but rather is something closer to the "plain non sequitur" case. And even that is generous of you.
  10. LegionOnomaMoi

    Evidence of the Non-Physical

    Just to name one counter-example that renders such an absurd and extreme claim as the one you make above (my goodness, I'm not a believer or an historian but a scientist and even I know the the debt we physicists owe to the "theological physics" of the early modern founders from Galileo and...
  11. LegionOnomaMoi

    Creation of Universe, Scriptures vs Science

    In non-relativistic mechanics (including quantum mechanics, actually, but here I'll be talking about classical non-relativistic mechanics) basically everything is relative. You have a (sort of)) privileged class of reference frames (as is true in special relativity) called inertial reference...
  12. LegionOnomaMoi

    Near Death experiences and the scientific method.

    FYI- That is an answer for someone who doesn't have a wife. It is also true that someone who doesn't have a wife cannot beat their wives. Likewise (just as a fun example I happen to like and which stuck with me), "the statement, 'All eleven-legged alligators are orange with blue spots' is true...
  13. LegionOnomaMoi

    Atheism is not a belief, so why would anyone lie that it is?

    It's strange to assert that atheism is defined as a "lack of belief" and then speak of evidence at all. In general, one can have evidence for one's beliefs, one's disbeliefs, even one's uncertainty regarding the truth or falsehood of a claim/proposition/etc. It is hard to imagine how one can...
  14. LegionOnomaMoi

    Atheism is not a belief, so why would anyone lie that it is?

    Strictly speaking, the above is not exactly true. Firstly because of the variability with respect to the actual claims involved, but more importantly because stricter experimental control that actual investigates the variability of the environment of the liquids as well as whether or not the...
  15. LegionOnomaMoi

    Atheism is not a belief, so why would anyone lie that it is?

    I spend almost all my time within scientific communities, as I am a scientist. My background is mostly in theoretical physics (especially quantum foundations) as well as the statistical physics of complex systems, but years ago when I was just starting out in graduate research I worked as an...
  16. LegionOnomaMoi

    Atheism is not a belief, so why would anyone lie that it is?

    Rather easily, I would think. If someone asks me "do you believe in creationism?" then I don't need to know in which particular way they mean to assert which particular creator actually "created" the universe (life? Earth? etc.) in what particular manner in order to answer "no." And more...
  17. LegionOnomaMoi

    The importance of the EVIDENCE in science

    What is the point of trying to "educate" those whose familiarity with and understanding of scientific methods and the nature of science by presenting a fundamentally flawed, mischaracterization of the actual practice of science, the way that scientists understand and use evidence, and finally...
  18. LegionOnomaMoi

    The importance of the EVIDENCE in science

    We teach children (despite decades of attempts at reform), as well as some popular/sensationalist science presentations. However, it makes little to no contact with how scientific inquiry actually works, the nature of science (NOS), actual scientific practices & methods, or indeed with the ways...
  19. LegionOnomaMoi

    Near Death experiences and the scientific method.

    Yes. The relevance here was that your criterion was not stringent enough. That is, it is not enough to ask This is what I meant by "wrong question". The problem is that you are not asking for enough evidence. Detection itself can be problematic in the extreme, which was the entire point of...
  20. LegionOnomaMoi

    Is the universe infinite or finite?

    Why? Let's suppose, for the moment, that we will not compare Galilean or Newtonian spacetime to the spacetimes of special and general relativity. Those proponents of the block universe view have generally built their cases upon special, not general relativity. The reason for this is quite...
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