As I understand it - Darwin's concepts explained a SLOW change because every tiny adaptation relied on a multitude of random mutations, which took a...
Darwin's theory was one of many competing ideas circulating around that time, all slightly different. Darwin was aware of those other theories. In...
Just to prove my point, the phys-org people published this today! -...
I used the word "direction", not "decision". Vast numbers of decisions may be taken, but only in line with the direction that has been set by...
I don't have time to thoroughly investigate the examples you put forward, but I can produce links/discussion to support my own examples. I am...
This is really getting to the heart of the issue. For instance - - how much of science funding comes from commercial companies? - how much is...
Good explanation, thank you. So it seems that the people setting the direction are - mainly - the various funding bodies. Perhaps also rich...
I'm new here. Maybe I am missing something, but your profile only shows your posts and a few statistics.
It seems you can't even be civil. Is your rudeness a replacement for being right? I am guessing you're just an arrogant kid.
Tell me what motivated each of those, to demonstrate your argument.
I mean a flexible fabric or sheet, which bends the light around it, to hide the object inside. I saw nothing like that before HP, and a sudden rash...
So who is the team leader responding to - his own instincts, or an external body? And how are those directions formed? Yes, most of science's work...
Well spotted Trippy. I misread exchemist's post... let me reply to that again!
That surprises me. Not even by the team leaders? - or would you reverse the percentage for them?
I'm not saying anyone goes around listing people's beliefs (although sometimes they do). Most often, "I imagine" the curiosity about something has...
Yes, both. It has been science's job, largely, to take all of the crap people believe in and, piece by piece, find out how true it is. That means the...
Agreed. But it will - and has done, again and again - taken non-scientific questions, and rephrased them in scientific terms.
Science has gradually eaten, digested and defined, more of what used to be attributed to non-scientific causes, eg. gods. The boundary of science...
"I don't know what you mean. When you shuffle an ordered deck of cards, the information that was present in the ordering is lost. How is that only...
I think you misunderstand me. I know probability reasonably well. There are many thing which appear, superficially, to be random, producing various...
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