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- moldero1
Mantis shrimps can see cancer, and scientists have now created a camera that does the same
http://www.sciencealert.com/shri…
"hey shrimp, what do you see?"
"cancer!"
- ukit21
Jeremy England, a 31-year-old physicist at MIT, thinks he has found the underlying physics driving the origin and evolution of life.
- sarahfailin1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?fe…
i thought this was really cool, but it didn't get any love on the vid of the day thread
- sarahfailin1
- wtfffffsarahfailin
- Great. Hard to argue that one requires faith to believe this considering all the math and evidence.monospaced
- I saw an amazing presentation of this same finding at the planetarium in NYC. Mind blowing astro physics and all totally real.monospaced
- and all totally real and verified. Unless one simply doesn't accept the science behind it, they can't really argue against it.monospaced
- There simply isn't any greater motive behind this than finding out more about reality and our place in the universe.monospaced
- sarahfailin1
one more time
- scarabin1
monkeys talking 'n' shit
- yurimon-1
- Dragons and demons? lolukit2
- best 2 hours and 49 minutes and 41 seconds I ever spentsarahfailin
- yurimon-1
http://www.sciencedaily.com/rele…
How We Support Our False Beliefs
- uuuuuu1
this guy makes a great point in this video using a historical example about the theories around gravity and dark matter/energy. basically he's saying gravity and dark matter/energy are merely theoretical constructs, based on false premises, with no basis in physical reality and subsequently doomed to be incorrect. He and many others are arguing for a theory of the universe based on plasma physics and electromagnetic energy.
- uuuuuu1
^ funny/interesting because the first post in this thread says science is not a belief system and yet as this guy points out so much of science, especially modern theoretical physics, really is a belief system.
- No he's just rejecting the hard science for his idiot ideasmonospaced
- uan1
theoretical physics is theoretical. that means it's not proven.
theory is an instrument of science to project into the unknown. it's assumptions based on proven science and observation to try to explain things we don't understand yet but we wish to explore.
And science also allows for proven facts to be revised, whenever someone proves it's wrong by an experiment.Science is a methodical process, not a belief system.
- It should be, but it isn't.Morning_star
- The process of believing methods and theories, fo realzyurimon
- It's actually true Morningstar. Stop bein an idiot saying it isn't without any regard for the tomes of proof that it is.monospaced
- I'm bored of your general, surface level proclamations. You're wrong, you always are. When the surface is scratched and I try to engage in a detailed debate you run away like the shallow believer you are. Sit down and shut up.Morning_star
- and I try to engage in a detailed debate you run away like the shallow believer you are. Sit down and shut up child.Morning_star
- Really?monospaced
- If your first comment here isn't a "surface level" or "general" proclamation then I don't know what is. Child.monospaced
- I'm not wrong. If I'm wrong then so are all the astrophysicists, cosmologists and relativity theorists that have ever lived.monospaced
- You seem to be under the impression that all scientists working at the edges of discovery agree with each other's theories. They don't. At all.Morning_star
- other. They don't. Conflicting and competing theories are rife.Morning_star
- ukit21
Scientists have made primitive forms of artificial sperm and eggs in a medical feat that could transform the understanding of age-related diseases and fertility problems.
Researchers in Cambridge made the early-stage sex cells by culturing human embryonic stem cells under carefully-controlled conditions for a week.
They followed the success by showing that the same procedure can convert adult skin tissue into precursors for sperm and eggs, raising the prospect of making sex cells that are genetically matched to patients.
- scarabin1
so let's say it is a belief system. it's the only belief system with actual evidence and logic to back it up. even the most hard to grasp quantum behaviours are more likely than jesus skipping around on water and raising the dead.
can we get back to dorking out plz
- scarabin1
it seems like it's just a semantic battle at the point and at the end of the day no matter who wins christianity is still ridiculous and awful
- this goes for all faith or just xtianity? (just curious)PonyBoy
- i'm being facetious here but i think abrahamic religions are foremost in our minds when we talk about dogmatic religionscarabin
- they're the big violent onesscarabin
- Well politicals + religion is same thing as satanism. so. all bullshit. when it comes to subversion of people for sake of keeping u a slave.yurimon
- slaveyurimon
- i opt out of all of itscarabin
- organicgrid1
Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.
- Morning_star-1
There is a tendency on here to assert that Religion (particularly Christianity) is a practical, alternative method for the explanation of the universe. That assertion is retarded. It's idiotic. It's not what anyone on here is claiming.
'Science is a belief' is not an attempt to suggest that scientific method is flawed in any way.
The original argument was, and still is: that the current scientific paradigm can't provide all the explanations in its purely materialistic universe; and the blind rejection of anything and everything that doesn't fit that materialistic paradigm by the scientific establishment is dogmatic. People, many here, behave as though science can be treated as a belief system. It can't.
Think for yourselves and question everything, especially scientific authority.
