Ask a physicist anything.

[Wiccan_Child]

Hmmm, somehow we're still talking past one another. Let me try it this way.

Your very same set of statements could just as equally apply to "God theory". Compared to the alternatives, it is the 'best we have' to work with. It might not be valid, but it does explain NDE's. It does explain why human beings throughout recorded history report having a "relationship" with "God". It goes a long way to explaining why only 4% of the planet considers themselves to be an "atheist" and why the planet as a whole is overwhelmingly theistic and always has been.

I agree that it does explain these phenomena. But it is not the best explanation, not by a long shot. We can simply use Occam's razor to eliminate the 'God' hypothesis as the most probable. For instance, of two explanations for NDEs (genuine experience of God vs an audio-visual hallucination), Occam's razor favours the latter: we know that the brain is highly susceptible to delusion and hallucination, including self-induced delusion. We don't have to posit anything new. The God hypothesis, on the other hand, requires us to posit something new: God. So it's not the best theory we have.

On the other hand, Occam's razor doesn't remove string theory, even though it posits the existence of the 'strings' and is certainly not without its problems. But hold your horses, this isn't a double standard: 'God' is not the 'best we've got' because there are other theories which don't posit anything new (and certainly not as fundamental as a intelligent and personal deity), while string theory is not ruled out of that category because the alternatives also posit new things of the order of the strings.

Compared to the alternatives, "God theory" is the best "science" has to offer. It may lack empirical support, but what theory of creation does not lack empirical support?

I wasn't aware of any 'theories of creation', at least not in the scientific sense. There are certainly countless myths and legend, and even tentative educated guesses, but we simply don't know anything about how the universe got here. To say there are theories at all is an overstatement.

 

[Cabal]

--- good one!

They don't get any respect though.

Well, they do do all the work - literally.

Aren't they written as going from positive to negative on blueprints as a matter of tradition?

Think the mixup came from when Ben Franklin defined charge and said the positive one was mobile - I suspect it was maybe too much of a convention to change once the truth was determined, that protons were largely immobile and really heavy (the technical term is "really quite lazy").

 

[pgp_protector]

At Absolute Zero --- (0K) --- do the electrons still orbit the nucleus?

IIRC you can't get 0.000K as that would violate the Heisenberg uncertainty principle

 

[Wiccan_Child]

At Absolute Zero --- (0K) --- do the electrons still orbit the nucleus?

Absolute zero is theoretically impossible: there is a minimum amount of energy an atomic system must have, so there will always be some heat.
Plus, electrons don't actually orbit the nucleus. It's far more esoteric than that.

The answer to my last one was you can't take a pic. with a wooden leg, well done AV!
Sorry, I ain't got a clue where Alberquerque is.

My next one...Bwahahahahahah!
This one requires a little insider knowledge,

A detective arrives on the scene of a death. A man was sitting slumped in a chair with a pencil clenched in one hand, and a bottle of half drunk cyanide in the other. In front of him on a desk was a suicide letter. After taking one look at the body the detective knew for a fact that the man was murdered. How?

Gunshot wound to the back of the head? He was knifed, decapitated, or otherwise killed in a way that ruled out suicide?

 

[Belk]

Thank you, Jazmyn!This is a guess, but wouldn't death by cyanide poisoning entail the man going into convulsions?

that was my first thought as well, but I believe you could also claim that since the body goes limp after death both the pencil and the bottle would have fallen to the floor. therefore someone would have had to place those items in his hand after rigor mortis started to set in.

 

[Jazmyn]

This is a guess, but wouldn't death by cyanide poisoning entail the man going into convulsions?

Good guess, but not always.

 

[pgp_protector]

The answer to my last one was you can't take a pic. with a wooden leg, well done AV!
Sorry, I ain't got a clue where Alberquerque is.

My next one...Bwahahahahahah!
This one requires a little insider knowledge,

A detective arrives on the scene of a death. A man was sitting slumped in a chair with a pencil clenched in one hand, and a bottle of half drunk cyanide in the other. In front of him on a desk was a suicide letter. After taking one look at the body the detective knew for a fact that the man was murdered. How?

Between

What are the specific signs and symptoms of cyanide poisoning?

The health effects from high levels of cyanide exposure can begin in seconds to minutes. Some signs and symptoms of such exposures are:

* Weakness and confusion
* Headache
* Nausea/feeling "sick to your stomach"
* Gasping for air and difficulty breathing
* Loss of consciousness/"passing out"
* Seizures
* Cardiac arrest

The severity of health effects depends upon the route and duration of exposure, the dose, and the form of cyanide.

And the fact that the pencil was in the wrong hand (Left Handed vs Right handed)

 

[Cabal]

The suicide letter wasn't written in pencil?

 

[Jazmyn]

The God hypothesis, on the other hand, requires us to posit something new: God.

"Before Abraham was, I am." (John 8:58)

Gunshot wound to the back of the head? He was knifed, decapitated, or otherwise killed in a way that ruled out suicide?

Surely the detective would've mentioned it.

And the fact that the pencil was in the wrong hand (Left Handed vs Right handed)

Wasn't mentioned either.

The suicide letter wasn't written in pencil?

Interesting but not the answer.

that was my first thought as well, but I believe you could also claim that since the body goes limp after death both the pencil and the bottle would have fallen to the floor. therefore someone would have had to place those items in his hand after rigor mortis started to set in.

So close.

 

[Wiccan_Child]

"Before Abraham was, I am." (John 8:58)

'New' as in 'not yet established to exist'. Occam's razor favours electricity as the explanation for lightning rather than Thor, because we know electricity exists, but we don't know Thor exists.

Surely the detective would've mentioned it.

I don't have the detective's report .

Maybe the suicide letter was typed up?

Or he was decayed beyond recognition?

Or the suicide note wasn't his suicide note?

 

[AV1611VET]

Good guess, but not always.

He wouldn't be "slumped in the chair"; he would have been slumped over the table?

 

[BasinBrat]

Jazmyn - The pencil was in the man's right hand and the detective knew him to be left handed.

Dang, already busted.

 

[Belk]

So close.

Hmmm... Perhaps.... because he was slumped in the chair when he should have fallen forward to lie face down on the desk?

ETA

Drat. AV beat me to it.

 

[Cabal]

The detective was the one who killed 'im!

 

[AV1611VET]

Why did the chicken cross the Mobius Strip?

 

[pgp_protector]

To get to its Klein Bottle

 

[Jazmyn]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!!!

It's a symptom of cyanide poisoning, (and it's not a seizure).

 

[AV1611VET]

Why did the chicken cross the Mobius Strip?

To get to its Klein Bottle

To get to the same side.

 

[Jazmyn]

Say "silk" five times. Now spell "silk." What do cows drink?

 

[AV1611VET]

[SIZE=-1]Heisenberg is out for a drive when he's stopped by a traffic cop.

The cop says 'Do you know how fast you were going?'

Heisenberg says 'No, but I know where I am.' [/SIZE]