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@FindingTrinity @SpeedWatkins @TheDrewHaas Well, that's a start. I would also be without the promises of Jesus within Christianity where Jesus promises healing, miracles, signs & wonders. It would begin to erode this part of Christianity too.

@PosthumanDan @SpeedWatkins @TheDrewHaas It would be "without Calvinism." The opposite end of the spectrum would be Open Theism which offers some interesting challenges to Calvinism and, to a lesser extent, to classical theism.

Modern science is highly successful without ever invoking God’s will, which confirms atheism. Because the probability calculus dictates that confirming a hypothesis must also mathematically disconfirm its negation, this success *logically entails* the disconfirmation of theism.

@darkcorman @darwintojesus ^ Do you understand what wish-casting is?

@darwintojesus Most atheists don’t understand science or atheism.

Every atheist disputing that science requires blind faith is just telling everyone they have no actual understanding of science and how it works.

@darwintojesus In Research Methods we're taught to be critical of claims, clear in hypotheses, to assess multiple forms of bias, error, noise, and to understand the relative robustness of statistical calculations applied to data: Where does the blind faith part happen?

@BulwarkOnline He's speculating about the imagined effects of other people's speculations when they are divided into high-or-low bands of credence. What vapid psychobabble

Navarro: "There is a deep, deep, deep division on whether the 2020 election was stolen…Is the probability that the election was stolen higher today in people's minds than it was before we got the data? I would argue that certainly, there's no question. Whether you have a very low view of whether it was stolen, it's gonna creep up a little bit because of what came out. If you have a high view, it's gonna maybe pop to certainty."

@sarahsalviander Your framing is off: "Cars work" = "Solar system works" You have only pointed at the sample without invoking the 'success of modern science' to investigate. Add an investigator to your analogy.

I'm not sure if this is in jest, but do y'all see the flaw? I mean, cars work without ever invoking engineers, so I guess engineers don't exist?

@FindingTrinity @SpeedWatkins @TheDrewHaas If there is a sample of data where God does not exercise will, nor omnipotence & power, nor steer things towards His ends, nor allows His glory to shine through: Would that sample be 'without theism'?

@SpeedWatkins @TheDrewHaas Possibility and power are not necessity.

@StatisticUrban Parks.

What last name would we give bastards born in New York City, Westeros style?

@RubenObed12 @DarkMatter2525 @DrFrankTurek @NickJFreitas Does God also possess that same free will (i.e. the capacity to desire sin and to enact sin)? Or does God have the ability to explore consciousness without free will?

@DarkMatter2525 @DrFrankTurek @NickJFreitas The more esoteric understanding of free will, ie God giving us free wil, is so we can fully explore all the posibilities of concoiussness. Thats really the only legitmate solution.

What if our culture has misunderstood Christianity? @NickJFreitas unpacks the Gospel, tackles the problem of evil, and explains how the Christian worldview makes sense of love, justice, and the purpose of life.

@SloppySalah @FXDugas1 @RichardHanania By mathematically - he means 'emotionally based on my subjective stance'

@FXDugas1 @RichardHanania why is that mathematically improbable

Trump endorses an election denier for Congress. Turns out he's a Mormon who encourages other men to have sex with his wife. This is the MAGA-era Republican Party.

@Pathfinder4545 @McClureShawn This means as much as "The Explanation explains it."

@McClureShawn Design explains it.

Human chromosome 2 contains the marks expected from an ancestral fusion: internal telomere-like sequences and remnants of an additional centromere. Other great apes retain the corresponding two chromosomes. Creationism cannot explain this. Common ancestry via evolution does.

@GhostCoase But they start as basically children, right? I sleepwalked through undergrad. Ideas didn't start to change me until post-grad.

@CatchUpFeed Was the enlisted marine's rent was paid for by socialism, or did they own those houses based on their socialised paycheck?

JD Vance on the housing crisis: "In some ways, Joe, the game is rigged." JD Vance tells Rogan about an engineer out-earning 90% of her generation who sees literally what her parents had as unachievable. He gives an example of Oceanside, San Diego once full of enlisted Marines' kids where every house is now north of a million dollars. His warning to Republicans: "Socialism is the alternative" if the dream stays out of reach. The housing crisis has reached the point where working harder than most of your generation no longer buys what one enlisted salary used to. Whichever party offers a credible way back owns the priced-out generation.

@DANKCHAINS @Timcast @HannahDCox That earlier stuff was mostly performative dross over editorialised in the edit.

@Timcast @HannahDCox What did you do with this guy? reddit.com/r/IAmA/s/m7MUm…

HOLY SHIT Trump says intel shows China paid US journalists to write negative stories about the Trump administration

@AlexanderKalian Our skulls also only have a limited size so even if we keep packing in new skills and experiences, we'll have to cannibalise older ones. We might have body tissues that live for centuries, but our brains will lapse into schizophrenic-zombie-hood

AI will not make you live forever. Immortality is statistically impossible. If there is a baseline finite 1/n chance of dying, every single day, then the chance of dying at some point over a large timeline converges to 1. There is also an eventual heat death of the universe to worry about. Time and entropy shall ultimately kill all. It would be great to live much longer than 100 years - but you should all accept your mortality from now. We are very much mortal beings. No AI will change that.

@darwintojesus @SpeedWatkins Dude, you're just exposing the desperation of your interlocked-delusions here bro.

No it doesn’t, we have no idea what a “natural world” even looks like. In fact, all the other worlds we’re aware of come from minds and those could all have causes within world that are observable, like video games for example… or movies, books, etc. So we know that worlds that come from minds can be studied scientifically, we have absolutely no idea what a world that doesn’t come from a mind would even look like, or if such a world is even possible, much less intelligible.

This is a common misconception that comes up all the time with atheists, they think because science operates on “methodological naturalism” that this somehow vindicates or bolsters naturalism. But methodological naturalism just means we’re only going to study what we can observe, that’s it. Think about it this way… imagine you find yourself in the Matrix and you’re trying to understand the rules within your world, how it operates…. Etc. To study the world of the matrix you’d use methodological naturalism, but you’d be wrong to think that the Matrix didn’t ultimately come from an intelligent mind. Or think about this: why is it when theists do science, even they* operate on methodological naturalism? Because that’s how science works. That’s the method. We look for observable causes. In fact, the term “methodological naturalism” is a bit of a misnomer. When a physicist investigates gravity, they’re not saying, “Only natural causes exist.” They’re saying, “I’m going to try to explain this using hypotheses that can be tested against observations because those are the only things I can test.” So the fact that science works off of “methodological naturalism” in no way bolsters naturalism as a worldview.

@AriochIV @MadKamikazius Socio-political realities tend to rely on real things like trade and movement. But if the snow is fifteen feet high for years, what trade or movement is there? I notice that HOTD doesn't mention seasons.

Well, the physical part of the world is obviously not as important to Martin as the socio-political part. That may be part of why he can't come up with an ending for ASOIAF, since it would mean finding a solution to the problems he has been throwing at the characters, and that means logic rather than just poking characters and describing how they suffer. We all have the bits we're interested in. I myself wish that Tolkien's work wasn't so vague about how magic works, as I'm interested in systems like that, but I understand that this is not what the story is about and not what Tokien is interested in. He would much rather spend a page describing the flora around the characters' campsite and what they had for breakfast... and that's fine.

George Martin: "I find it lacking that we never learn of Aragorn's tax policy." Okay George. Then you can probably explain to us how the seasons work in your world, and how wildlife manages to survive years-long winters. It's a fundamental part of your world. Can you, George?

@CorgLobster @moidrepeller Oh wow! From "I don't understand" to "You don't understand because of geography" - truly you are an intellect to behold.

@PosthumanDan @moidrepeller I think you're retarded kiwi. Mamdani wants to abolish prisons and cops. Where are the criminals going to go, and who will protect non Muslims from these criminals without cops? Trump should have deported him, so I ask again, wtf does Trump have to do with anything?

Genuinely wild. It’s become so mainstream to treat people in prison as though they are either not guilty of a real crime or temporarily embarrassed great people that we don’t even bat an eye at this.

@FrPBehm Why not calibrate time by the total average of a timezone's circadian rhythms transferred by every wearable health device?

If we're just going to make stuff up RE the time, why not push the clocks ahead three hours? That way, it'll be light out until 11:00 P.M. What's the downside?

@CorgLobster @moidrepeller Ah yes, dip into your supply of convenient incompetence. Works like a charm.

@PosthumanDan @moidrepeller What does Trump have to do with a Ugandan muslim that has let rape and antisemitic hate crimes reach unprecedented levels and still wants to abolish police and prisons?

@FrPBehm I don't know. Why don't schools have different start times for all four seasons? Why don't we let AI control the clocks so that sunrise is the same minute every single day?

I'm seeing a lot of, "Schools should just adjust and start an hour later." If that's the case, then seriously, what's the point?