Zachriel
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Joined: Sep. 2006
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| Quote (Benny H @ Jan. 10 2010,18:09) | | Quote (Bob O'H @ Jan. 10 2010,09:49) | | Quote (Zachriel @ Jan. 10 2010,09:09) | On the Signature in the Cell thread, there is no comment box, though the comment box appears on other threads. Apparently, comments are closed, at least to Zachriel.
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My sock can't see a comment box either. I guess they've signed off on that post. They could have an automatic cut-off for posts - 2 weeks, or whatever. |
I think comments on UD threads are automatically closed when the thread becomes 3 weeks old. |
Well, well. Clive Hayden just posted a reply on the closed thread.
| Quote | Zachriel: If your point is that miracles can conceivably occur, then okay. But if we observe an unexplained irregularity, then the scientific answer is we don’t know. *Poof* is not a valid scientific hypothesis.
Clive Hayden: This from the same Zachriel who argued against StephenB and the law of causality by asserting that quantum particles “poof” into existence without a cause. That’s consistent. (sarcasm) |
Misrepresenting our position while doing so. (To be fair, Clive Hayden probably didn't notice that the thread is closed to others.)
Clive Hayden is also confusing a postulate with a hypothesis, along with two uses of the word "poof."
What is Newtonian Gravity? It's a force. Where does it come from? The answer is that Newton didn't know. It was an axiom of his Mechanics which led to specific empirical implications. Saying Gravity miraculously comes into existence is a scientifically vacuous statement. Quantum particles may appear in the quantum vacuum, but saying it's a miracle is scientifically meaningless.
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