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I think there is certainly a point of economic hardship where we would have to start looking at the cost vs human lives, as morbid as that sounds. The question then becomes, what is the dollar value of a human life? A google search gives a value of $10 million, Of course, you could argue this up...

Does God set moral standards by virtue of omnipotence, or omnibelevolence?

You seem to be double posting a lot. The same argument/link only needs one post. Let's deal with a hypothetical first. Say we have a bathtub. The faucet is on, but the drain is open. Water flows in, water flows down the drain. The water level remains constant. Now, if we open up the tap more...

I'm late to the party here, but the idea of morality stemming from God gets rather squirrely for me. I used to be fully on board with "morality is defined by God," but as I thought more about it and played around with different hypotheticals, I just couldn't resolve God dictated morality. The...

I think morality doesn't easily boil down to subjective vs objective. I think one of the central conceits of ethics is the concept that we are rational beings. We feel that morality should follow clear, definable rules. But we also tend to feel that cold calculation based on clear definable...

XKCD has a great graphic on where to put solar panels:

It checks out. His uncle was some sort of super genius that taught at Harvard for like, a record number of years. That basically makes him an expert.

The same way a creationist would view it dispassionately I suppose. I know clickbait sites like to tell you the best way to do random things 'according to science', but contrary to such clickbaity things, "science" doesn't proscribe the proper way to do things. If you were consciously trying...

"Are Black Holes Actually Dark Energy Stars?" Short answer is "no." Black holes were an early candidate for the hunt for dark matter, but were ruled out. Dark matter is what causes galaxies to move as if they had much more mass than can be accounted for by stars, planets, and dust. Dark...

The question isn't phrased well, but you seem to be asking how the acceptance of mainstream science would educate our response to a pandemic. I'll set aside the implicit moral questions of the relative value of human life to economic considerations, as those are not within the realm of...

So like a voodoo bad juju kind of thing?

That does not seem to lend itself to verification. First, how would we know that it's the same voice? The person answering the phone would not know the voice she heard in her head, so they'd have no point of comparison. It's unlikely three call would be recorded, so we couldn't verify even what...

While it's not a perfect comparison, the concept of an intelligent being, unobserved by science, acting on earth in ways not explained by known science is certainly analogous. I would certainly not include the possibility of say microbial life in some distant solar system in that group even...

Are you talking about the metaphorical concept of inner demons?

People who have lived in multiple hemispheres. You could also just get a bunch of links to live streams from various parts of the world and check to see if there is any point in the night where your live streams from the US, Europe, and Asia are all dark at the same time.

You are probably getting a bit of selection bias. I can see three viewpoints regarding demons: 1. Demons don't exist 2. Demons exist but do not routinely cause supernatural events on earth. 3. Demons exist and regularly impact events on earth. I would guess that most Christians would fall...

This would be incorrect. The weak force is in no way a form of kinetic energy, nor does nuclear decay change with temperature. I think this gets to the heart of my criticism of #6. Both you and the other person were speaking as if there were a causal relationship. Velocity is movement, and...

Interesting idea, but I don't think it works: A physical property is a measurable property that describes a physical system. Time can only be measured by comparing something's motion to other motion, most commonly a standard of motion. Examples of standards of motion include, but are not...

"torrents" are not illegal. Most of my open source legal software is obtained via torrent.

VM ware has a free version that is torrentable and freely distributable.