The Universe is Queer
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- stem0
Like you say moth, this aint news...
what it is, is, shite marketing.
"Too Queer" to understand is just a lame attempt at grabbing a few headlines.
- ********0
I have a stranger feeling this thead will get ugly before the hour is up.
- stem0
I have a stranger feeling this thead will get ugly before the hour is up.
JazX
(Jul 14 05, 07:50)Can you just feel it in your water?
- ********0
I can feel that I am drinking queer water and I like it
- stem0
Sweet or salty? - JazX
- robotron3k0
now this is ugly...
- vespa0
He criticised the West for being only concerned with design issues that affect them, and solving environmental problems for themselves.
"You are problem solvers but are not engaging in problems of corruption," he told TED Global delegates.
"You stay away from design for developments. Your designs are selfish; it is for your own immediate use.
"We need your imagination to be brought to bear on problems the way meme is supposed to. It is at the intersection of ideas that new ideas and breakthroughs occur."
- Mimio0
They're right, time to think bigger and help mankind get out his technological adolescence.
- stem0
He criticised the West for being only concerned with design issues that affect them, and solving environmental problems for themselves.
How insulting?
- discipler0
From an interview with Dr. Stephen C. Meyer:
"...I had struck a nerve. Meyer uncrossed his legs, planted both feet on the floor, and spoke with conviction. "I think the opposite is true," he insisted. "We've learned a lot about biology since the Civil War [Darwin era]. Evolutionists are still trying to apply Darwin's nineteenth-century thinking to a twenty-first century reality, and it's not working. Explanations from the era of the steamboat are no longer adequate to explain the biological world of the information age. Darwinists say they are under some sort of epistemological obligation to continue trying, because to invoke design would be to give up on science. We should not be looking for only the best naturalistic explanation, but the best explanation, period. And Intelligent Design is the explanation that's most in conformity with how the world works."
- vespa0
He criticised the West for being only concerned with design issues that affect them, and solving environmental problems for themselves.
How insulting?
stem
(Jul 14 05, 08:06)i'd say it's fairly accurate.
- ********0
a universe cannot contain both string theory and cross-dressing. but it does!
- stem0
He criticised the West for being only concerned with design issues that affect them, and solving environmental problems for themselves.
How insulting?
stem
(Jul 14 05, 08:06)i'd say it's fairly accurate.
vespa
(Jul 14 05, 08:15)What have the Romans ever done for us?
Drinking water
Irrigation
Medicine
Law & Order
Roads
Sanitation...don't forget the aquaduct!
- vespa0
haha point taken
- ********0
He criticised the West for being only concerned with design issues that affect them, and solving environmental problems for themselves.
How insulting?
stem
(Jul 14 05, 08:06)
-------------------------------true, but what the hell do you expect?
- Mimio0
He expects nations full of Bucky Fullers. Citizens that demand sustainable futures from their governments, businesses. etc etc.
- ********0
That the universe has arranged itself into collations of matter (us), that can understand it to the extent that we have is what I find the most unfathomable..
We have ability and understanding that far outstrip our biological need for them - as the hunter-gathers we appear to be, when viewed next to our relatives, (ie all other life, not just the other apes), why we have the ability to split the atom, comprehend quantum physics and e=mc-squared, evolution, cosmology and math is a true mystery and where we go and what we do with this ability, on an evolutionary time-scale will surely smack of intelligent design when we finally achieve it.
Before then we have some way to go with gravity, the more complex biology, and pyscho-neuro sprituality and associated politics..
Anthropic principals aside (we could not have the discussion were the conditions NOT so finely tuned for life), in the 21st C., we are struggling for a paradigm to explain just how unlikely is our existence in this universe, and just how strange a place that is, and by extension, we are ourselves.
Take my brother, for instance - he swears by IE5 running on a Mac, and spends most of his waking hours trying to access Heavy.com on his dialup connection, and refining his online portfolio using Comic Sans and animated gifs.