Is Christianity the Best Religion for an AI Sim World?
A game developer makes the caseBeing a game developer renders Virk vulnerable to missing the parts of Christianity that don’t feel like a game at all.
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Right Now, Science Seems To Be Growing Stale…
If we judge by the number of dead end controversies... And this is just when we might expect it to be boomingPerhaps the endless theorizing with so little result reflects what chance can produce. If researchers ever felt they could risk trying design, we could see if more insight follows.
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Scholars’ Mag Offers Sympathetic Review of Non-Materialist Books
The books are Antony Flew’s There is a God and Michael Egnor’s The Immortal Mind. Unusually for these times, NAS’s mag listens to both sidesMaterialists cannot apply common standards for assessing evidence because they must refute all evidence of non-materialism. That makes them hard to argue with.
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Is Evolution Theory Canceling Itself? If So, It’s Not Alone
Darwinian biology, along with other areas of science, seems much less sure of itself todayNew information suggests that basic assumptions underlying many disciplines may be inadequate or mistaken. How they respond will predict their future.
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Searching for Any World at All in the Many-Worlds Interpretation
If the many-worlds interpretation (multiverse theory) originated by Hugh Everett is understood realistically as it was intended to be, it can easily be rejectedWhile an interpretation might survive many difficulties, it cannot survive the failure to provide the one thing it promises — and even after seventy years, “many worlds” has yet to produce even one.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Review Part 4
Finn finds himself alone, so he begins stripping off his armor as he wanders the desertI can’t recall a single time where an entire movie, let alone a trilogy, is completely driven by such choices and coincidences.
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Claims for a Multiverse Violate Basic Logic
Michael Egnor: To account for the fine-tuning of our universe, many thinkers claim, without evidence, that there are innumerable universes. But they won’t accept the existence of GodOccam’s Razor is never raised as a critique of the multiverse that I’m aware of. But multiverse claims are an obvious contradiction of the Razor’s minimalist approach.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Review Part 3: Meeting Poe
Once someone watches this film multiple times, questions stack up remarkably fastSeveral ships are descending to this planet, and inside them are stormtroopers waiting to attack.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Review Part 2
During the title crawl, the writers’ entire goal was to reset the board so they could essentially tell the same story all over againThe whole reason the sixth movie was called Return of the Jedi was because it was assumed that Luke would train more Jedi, and this is an audience expectation, and the title crawl is surgically destroying such expectations.
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An Unusual Story of Everything Review from the UK
The Telegraph reviewer, Peter Stanford, seems excited about The Story of Everything almost despite himself.
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God, The Science, The Evidence: The Dawn of a Revolution
The book sets out the reasons for thinking that the universe is the creation of a rational supernatural being, as traditional religion and philosophy have attestedIn effect, therefore, this book is a call for a return to the medieval vision of a rational God who created rational creatures equipped to discover the verities of nature. In other words, to do science.
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Philosopher Stephen Meyer narrates the film but never gets in the story’s wayAt last, the end of materialism escapes the lecture room; it becomes a story about real people in real time in the midst of a civilizational struggle.
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The Universe Doesn’t Do Charity: Bad News for Cosmic Bargain Hunters
If I could go back in time and rename conservation of information with a single word, I’d go with “offload” (verb form) or “offloading” (noun form).
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2010: The Year We Make Contact Review Part 5
The crew watches Jupiter grow smaller until it explodes, sending shockwaves through the ship.As long as the aliens’ technology is advanced beyond humanity’s comprehension, then there’s no real way to pick apart how they turned the gas planet into a star.
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Agnosticism, Appearance, and Reality
Regarding God, the evidence for fact and truth on creation and morality is everywherePeople can be agnostic on many things, such as historical events, like the authenticity of the moon landings, who shot JFK, or even the existence of the external world.
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2010: The Year We Make Contact Part 4
The decision is made to keep all the details from HAL.If the robot figures out that he isn’t returning to Earth with the crew, he might object to the plan and decide to continue the mission himself, just like he’d done with Bowman’s crew.
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2010: The Year We Make Contact Part 3
Secrets, circuits, and a killer logic loop.When Chandra finds the hidden order, he also finds Floyd’s message, which Bowman had discovered after turning off HAL
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2010: The Year We Make Contact Review Part 2
The plot is well structured, there are few, if any, plot holes.Making a story easy to follow isn’t just a matter of artistic preference; it’s tied to the suspension of disbelief and an audience member’s investment.
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2010: The Year We Make Contact Review Part 1
When explaining the mystery becomes the real mistakeFor the fans of 2001, the mystery is the point, and for those more devoted to secular causes, the concept of aliens as divine beings is the point.
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2001: A Space Odyssey Review Part 8
Final thoughts on the movieFor one thing, I disagree with the philosophy behind it. I don’t think evolution is true, and I certainly don’t think that death is a necessary part of life.
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