tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post1545309226633132047..comments2024-03-29T09:39:50.604+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: The child-like simplicity of some Natural Scientists (1)Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-28729749264650934022017-06-16T01:25:05.864+01:002017-06-16T01:25:05.864+01:00I have a suggestion where to go next...Eris, beyon...I have a suggestion where to go next...Eris, beyond Pluto, which we could reach in a few decades.Tom Mazanechttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16909029541861427810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-66524643612609252462017-06-16T01:23:54.317+01:002017-06-16T01:23:54.317+01:00I have a proposition for what to visit next...Plut...I have a proposition for what to visit next...Pluto's outer sister, the dwarf planet Eris. We should be able to do a flyby in a few decades.Tom Mazanechttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16909029541861427810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-67976163366549868792017-04-25T04:52:57.569+01:002017-04-25T04:52:57.569+01:00Does not time-travel, by definition, render itself...Does not time-travel, by definition, render itself irrelevant?Stephenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06614993047021893718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-56555950291503923272017-04-24T19:34:26.916+01:002017-04-24T19:34:26.916+01:00"Science" teaches ABS that chickens evol..."Science" teaches ABS that chickens evolved from the T-Rex., so there's that to consider.<br /><br />On the other hand, only, roughly, 1% of all scientific papers are reproducible and so ABS predicts that the scientists of today will evolve into the garbage scow pilots of tomorrow.Mick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-40731907389085854192017-04-24T09:34:16.397+01:002017-04-24T09:34:16.397+01:00Prior to Kepler and Newton, planets were believed ...Prior to Kepler and Newton, planets were believed to move in complicated paths traced out by underlying uniform circular motions (as seen from the equant) of the epicycle upon the deferent (whose centre was the eccentric).<br /><br />When materials burnt, they gave off phlogiston… that is, they didn't, rather they reacted with oxygen. <br /><br />In the late nineteenth century, scientists Joshuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17387698013828199070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-41891668641721622772017-04-24T09:07:08.341+01:002017-04-24T09:07:08.341+01:00Fr
Progress IS usally a materialists' idol or...Fr <br />Progress IS usally a materialists' idol or made one, progressives heretics at best and typically humansacrificing idolators, but I can't consider materialist contactivism a godly alternative.<br />Being judgemental, accepting however halfheartedly the megabillion dollar per day scam and swindle of the warmist glob¨, pullulating with watermelons, gaiaworshippers, antihuman Mike Cliffsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06405021835510775527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-68233680626616018672017-04-24T03:07:08.726+01:002017-04-24T03:07:08.726+01:00The greatest drawback of the scheme is the likelih...The greatest drawback of the scheme is the likelihood that the encoding scheme will have been misplaced and that the pictures will be unreadable, or even unreceived. Because for about 80000 of those years there will be little of interest, so nobody will have had a career incentive to preserve the capability.Ed Ahlsen-Girardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15504985467612049862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-75457052194421227622017-04-24T01:33:01.452+01:002017-04-24T01:33:01.452+01:00I'm afraid, father, that I think that you have...I'm afraid, father, that I think that you have a very good point let down by an unfortunate instance.<br /><br />It's certainly true that there are a large number of people in this country who have accreted a naively sentimental set of intellectual commitments, ethical convictions, and aesthetic considerations around the conceptual categories of "science" and "progress"Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11974875199385791945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-87056249716496452302017-04-23T14:10:24.102+01:002017-04-23T14:10:24.102+01:00Scientists still propagate as undeniable truth a D...Scientists still propagate as undeniable truth a Darwinian theory that is absolutely indefensible and prop up a failing Big Bang theory with 'dark matter' of which there is not a whit of hard evidence-the ultimate cooking of the books. Nor have the vast majority faced up to the implications of Quantum Theory and the mathematics of Godel and Dembski.Michael Leahyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15044897013849386271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-41347584861350467832017-04-23T12:43:01.061+01:002017-04-23T12:43:01.061+01:00Dear Fr, I think you've hit upon what some mat...Dear Fr, I think you've hit upon what some mathematicians call "solution-blindness", where having settled on one answer to such a question as "what is there of interest in the universe of space" it becomes impossible to think of <i>other</i> answers. That is, if someone actually <i>believes</i> that close-up pictures from the α-Centauri system would be intrinsically Belfry Bathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-25989249922551675882017-04-23T12:13:19.601+01:002017-04-23T12:13:19.601+01:00That humans, left to their own devices, *will* bel...That humans, left to their own devices, *will* believe anything is one of the clearest, saddest truths of human history. Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01915120760049904431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-68112011368907866622015-09-12T16:19:15.588+01:002015-09-12T16:19:15.588+01:00I'm surprised that you read New Scientist, it ...I'm surprised that you read New Scientist, it really has changed over the years and is now mostly half understood science written by journalists from what you describe very aptly as "the naive journalism-end of Science writing", but then I suppose we all need a little light relief from time to time. I'm a semi-retired scientist with a few publications to my name and I can now noAitchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02279636741004463756noreply@blogger.com