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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=paUniverse_sun14_parallel_universes&show_article=1 I cannot access the original New Scientist article (I think it was September). However, I was wondering if any of the physicists here have any comments on this one.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/31/opinion/edbalter.php What do people think about this?

I am in the process of reading this B'hai history, and it very interesting. I am only a short way through - about seven chapters - and one thing that I am particularly struck by is its similarity in style to Acts in the New Testament. The B'hai's do not consider Nabil's Narrative to be a holy...

What is your interpretation of the above Hadith? It seems to me to be saying that every non-Muslim('every servant of Allah who associates nothing with Allah') will be forgiven, except for those who have a grudge against their brother. And that even those will be forgiven when they are...

Let us assume for a moment that evolution is true. (Easier for some than others, I guess.) If that is the case, then the reason humans think as they do is a result of evolutionary processes. So, the acceptance of evolution as true by some of the population would be due to their particular...

The thing that strikes me here is that either you think a fetus is a human being (in which case there are very few reasons why an abortion should be tolerated, which might include danger to the mother, for example) or you do not think that a fetus is a human being, in which case I cannot see...

A friend of mine suggested that the widespread existence of Dyson spheres in our and other galaxies might be an explanation for why we cannot see 90 per cent of the matter that we know - from gravitional evidence - exists. I understand that the heat energy from the stars covered by Dyson...

http://www.abc.gov.au/science/news/stories/s1646206.htm I don't know whether this has been posted on this forum yet. Very interesting stuff. Now we just need to have them make a testable prediction.

Simple question. :) (You can complicate it by giving a reason if you like. ;)) My answer is: no.

Man, evos is an ugly world. Anyhow: Imagine that there is a sequence of DNA in a particular animal that makes the eyes of that animal blue. Let us call it, 'atcgatatcg' - it does not matter. Suppose that due to random mutation and natural selection, this species of animal lost this...

I posted something a little while ago. In the middle of posting it, I realised I was typing out what to me was an understandable way of putting things. However, I know that this particular way I was putting things has been misinterpreted many, many times on this board previously. As such, I...

Pure metaphysical claims are those claims that do not have a grounding in the world we can detect. For example, 'Hell exists and all non-Christians will end up there after death,' is a pure metaphysical claim. The question I am interested in is this: by what methodology do we evaluate the...

Recently, I have been getting into discussions about scientific investigations of the paranormal. A friend of mine believes that the paranormal can be studied and tested for using scientific methodology. I have talked to him about falsifiability, but he has then responded by saying that it...

It begins - a massive ID push in Australia, very likely funded heavily by US fundamentalists. We have separation of church and state written into our constitution in identical words ( I think). But the difference is that in Australia this section of the constitution is basically ignored, not...

A friend of mine has suggested that looking at all the design flaws in animals does not disprove a designer. Indeed, she thinks that all these flaws are strong evidence for 'creation by committee'. Imagine a committee with limited budget and which is affected by different political interests...

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16438093%255E12332,00.html I had not seen this mentioned here previously - and I did not even know that Brendan Nelson had said this until I read this article. Is the Wedge about to make its mark in Australia? After all, it's all...

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1444852.htm Fuel to the fire, I guess. However, it is mainly the law that they talk about in the article that I wanted to discuss. If the science says that a fetus does not feel pain until after the 30th week, is it ethical for doctors to tell...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4136690.stm What power does the presidential office have over the schooling system? Don't the states get a lot of education funding from the federal government?

If the ability to read minds was developed - say through highly advanced brain imaging technology - would you support its general use by the government in counterterrorism? What if it became so easy to use that simply passing through a metal detector like structure was sufficient to pick up...