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According to the Bible, everyone worships something.I find worship to be a pointless and demeaning activity,
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According to the Bible, everyone worships something.I find worship to be a pointless and demeaning activity,
You keep saying this but I don't know of anyone that thinks that scientific models ARE the universe. They think they accurately describe the universe but no one thinks they ARE the universe. So what do you really mean by this?
According to the Bible, everyone worships something.
The entire "god of the gaps" falasy, presumes that because the universe itself is increasingly "known" by science, there is less and less place in it for a God to hide in it. But that very premise is a misunderstanding.
Dark matter is a substance detected by inference from astronomical observations
They wouldn't have to make it up - clothing dries surprisingly quickly in hot sun, and when such a thing is pointed out, people become more aware of it. In the context of some supposedly miraculous event, anything people have become particularly aware of is likely to be come part of the event and subject to exaggeration. People in groups are demonstrably suggestible and inclined to subsume their independence to groupthink.One of the most fascinating things to me about Fatima is the many witnesses who described the torrential rain all morning (and it does rain in near biblical proportions here! I presently speak from portugal) .
Yet these many witnesses said their clothing and they dried in minutes - all natural fibre , so water retaining then, as the sun appeared to approach the earth. Professors. Sceptics. Police. Journalists. Why would they make it up?
As before, the problem is in establishing that, especially as autobiographical memory is subject to distortion, revision, and confabulation, particularly in support of some interpretation or belief.I also find anecdotal evidence compelling where it can be verified that a person knew something way beyond random chance they cannot have experienced, discovered or predicted.
Works for me.When used in attack mode it claims the failure of science to explain everything means that science itself might be a failure and the underlying assumption (methodological naturalism) fails and therefore the supernatural must exist. (Or some such similar claim.)
No it isnt.
Its the absence of matter in the normal scientific model to explain behavioural observations..
You have no idea what it is or what it is not. You certainly cannot be sure it is a "substance" ie in some sense real
There are those who think it is a lot of small non interacting things, and those who think it is a lot of really big non interacting things. There are those who think the equations need a rethink based on The lack of interaction.
In reality dark matter "Is" not a thing at all. Its a name for the fact the behaviour equations dont add up, and one way of defining that error can be expressed in the dimensions of matter!
Its a model. Maybe as hawking said, model dependent reality. Maybe the models will never give a unique ubiquitous answer.
They wouldn't have to make it up - clothing dries surprisingly quickly in hot sun, and when such a thing is pointed out, people become more aware of it. In the context of some supposedly miraculous event, anything people have become particularly aware of is likely to be come part of the event and subject to exaggeration. People in groups are demonstrably suggestible and inclined to subsume their independence to groupthink.
As before, the problem is in establishing that, especially as autobiographical memory is subject to distortion, revision, and confabulation, particularly in support of some interpretation or belief.
You'd think Bigfoot would be ninety feet tall by now.They wouldn't have to make it up - clothing dries surprisingly quickly in hot sun, and when such a thing is pointed out, people become more aware of it. In the context of some supposedly miraculous event, anything people have become particularly aware of is likely to be come part of the event and subject to exaggeration. People in groups are demonstrably suggestible and inclined to subsume their independence to groupthink.
In that case you should know that dark matter is the name for phenomena that consistently behave like a distribution of invisible gravitating mass.Meanwhile in mainstream science galaxy rotation and shape was one of the factors that showed the mass imbalance, that led to the postulation of a fudge factor called dark matter. I guess being one time director over a big astrophysics company helps me know that.
I wrote about these details a few months ago. Those details are not the point. This is:
DARK MATTER IS NOT A WEDGE TO SQUEEZE MIRACLES INTO SCIENCE OR DEMEAN THE SCIENTIFIC PROCESS WHEN WE IGNORE YOUR "evidence".
I've given my suggestions. You claim that "All eye witnesess agree" and the rain dried "10 minutes later as recorded by all", which I find highly unlikely (did they really all check their watches as the rain stopped, and again when all was dry?) - is there somewhere I can get a definitive count of these eyewitnesses and read their individual statements and the circumstances in which they were obtained?In the context of fatima, the "quick drying clothes" and even more astounding is the quick drying ground , simply doesnt add up.
All eye witnesess agree that it was torrential rain for hours, that stopped only at the beginning of the apparition, that had left a quagmire. Then 10 minutes later as recorded by all, they and the ground were stone dry.
It was so dry, it was one of the things the witnesses said in many cases unprovoked - all spoke of the torrential rain. Why would they make up an unnecessary detail ?
Seriously. Start by reading such as "quantum reality" baggott. Your unshakeable belief that science models an underlying reality, will certainly be shaken by it.
I've given my suggestions. You claim that "All eye witnesess agree" and the rain dried "10 minutes later as recorded by all", which I find highly unlikely (did they really all check their watches as the rain stopped, and again when all was dry?) - is there somewhere I can get a definitive count of these eyewitnesses and read their individual statements and the circumstances in which they were obtained?
Seriously, start by sticking to the topic. The "meaning" of quantum mechanics isn't relevant to the nature of dark matter. Neither is relevant to "miracles".
The nature of reality matters, indeed is the most important question in physics. What is the underlying reality represented by a behaviour? Is the moon there before you look.
As I understand it, various attempts have been made to account for the phenomena by modifying Einstein's equations (not just for gravity) and introducing large-scale quantum effects, and additional forces. None have so far matched the dark particle hypothesis for explanatory scope and simplicity. A number of potential candidate particle ideas have been ruled out.I spoke about the real state of the debate about dark matter.
Just as "displacement current" in maxwells equations does not model a physical (ie real ) current. It maybe the astrophysics equations need a tweak with a term that has dimensions of matter that does not represent a real mass at all.
Given the reviews of it, I don't think so; I've read a number of books on QM, and various articles & papers, and some courses on it (i.e. The Great Courses: Understanding the Quantum World, Quantum Physics Course, The Great Questions of Philosophy and Physics, The Theory of Everything, and others).Seriously. Start by reading such as "quantum reality" baggott. Your unshakeable belief that science models an underlying reality, will certainly be shaken by it.
So basically all anecdotal and unverifiable. Unless you have a link to an English translation of this 'systematic investigation', I can only shrug, refer you to my previous answer (also see Asch conformity experiments), and point out that there are numerous sceptical responses to the accounts that don't require supernatural explanations, e.g. Fatima Miracle Claims All Wet, Illuminating the Fatima Miracle of the Sun, The Lady of Fátima & the Miracle of the Sun, Debunking the Fatima hoax.In this case those details are known.
There are hundreds of witnesses, both taken at the time and shortly after, reported in media, letters and cards, several systematic interrogations of witnesses.
They are recorded in
"documentacao critica de fatima" (part of the systematic investigation)
And various books
"o milagro do sol"
And hafferts "meet the witnesses"
Many newspapers, articles and media
All record the seer asking for shutting of umbrellas before the rain stopped - then the miracle started. All were asked how long it lasted. All said around 10 minutes , many gave actual times it started.
Some of the verifications were miles away.
All witnesse
Exaggeration doesn't always mean making tallerYou'd think Bigfoot would be ninety feet tall by now.