Recent content by Oliver

No. It's more like: if you earn less then a million, you get taxed at the lower rate, but after a million you get 1/4 of what you earn in excess of this million. The first million still gets taxed at the lower rate (Actually, the tax rate isalready progressive, so this "lower tax rate" is...

Actually, he seems to be willing to "lead by example": one of his first decision (if not the first) was to reduce the president's salary (and the ministers' too, iirc) by 30%. Granted, Sarkosy had more than doubled his own salary, so it's still an improvement over what a president earned before...

You don't get it, nonlongerhome: Matt is just part of the "Web of disinformation" set up by the illuminati to make you believe that someone really discovered their actions: by having Matt make such unbelievable claims they hope that we brainwashed sheep will discard all research into their...

Some test have been carried out to test the consequences of such an hypothesis (see Michelson experiments or search for the experiments which confirmed special relativity). What you have to understand is that it's not simply about "finding something which goes faster". Nothing. But do you...

This is not how this works in Science or math. By that logic, I can "prove" faeries exists, the invisible unicorn exist, we really do reincarnate as bouhdist believe (I think?), and so on and so forth. This is certainly not the level of evidence I would accept, and not suitable in science...

No, I did not do this: I said however that some properties of God were not testable, and I asked for example how you would test God's omnipotence or omniscience. You didn't provide any mean of doing this so far. I gave specific reasons as to why I think the Christian God (as described by...

So what? The faith of those Christians or the Bible do not qualify as a tests. Remember that we’re talking about being “falsifiable” (does falsifiability exist in English?) in the context of Science. You cannot consider the Bible as a sufficient test of the existence of the...

You can’t, that’s the point. And it is true of concepts like an omnipotent being (how can you test if a being is really omnipotent?) or Lastthursdayism (which claims that the world was created last Thursday, but with the appearance (including history, memories,… ) of an older world)...

More like a revelation. But anyways, you didn't provide any way to test the Unicorn existance. So again, how would you test it?

Of course it is logical: the Unicorn looks pink to the ones She chooses to appear to. At least that's what she told me in my dreams. Now tell me, how do I test if She exists of if She's just a figment of my imagination.

Not really: pink is a color. And in the context of my post it is not "a visible light" but the property of an object. Invisible to anyone who does not really believe in Her Horny Highness. Only true believers in Her can see Her or hear the sound of Her Holy Hooves. Then explain us how you...

The hypothesis that an entity which would be invisible, untouchable, etc... exists and has such and such properties (that noone can test). This would be an unfalsibiable hypothesis. One such example is the invisible pink Unicorn: noone can test if it is pink, since it is (supposed to be) invisible.

I know this, Chalnoth (note the "more or less" in my previous post), but even if we can't go back past Plank's time, and even considering the possibility of a "big crunch" before the big bang, this model still points to (I didn't say concludes, or shows) a beginning (not necessarilly The Beginning).

Why do you associate the Big Bang theory with "atheist cosmologists"? After all, one of the first proponents of this theory was a catholic (Georges Lemaître) who would later be a member of the Pontifical academy of sciences. As a weak atheist, I think that this theory is a good argument in...

That's quite a hasty conclusion! You forgot to mention that the gravitationnal forces also increase as the gas cloud reduces in size, since the gravitational forces depend on the distance (remember the r² ?).