So, were did you land?
Are you familiar with the Discovery Institute in Seattle, WA?
They have interesting articles on a number of scientific topics, including up-to-date information on intelligent design research, as well as science and culture.
Yeah, stick another thread if you wish on Philosophy over in the Religion forum. You’ll burn out quickly on a few of the posters over there and spend more time on physics here anyhow :)
Count me in. I hold small philosophical group discussions in my house.
Sign me up.
Here’s what I’ve heard about ping lists: as the text sez above the “To:” box, “use semicolons to separate multiple recipients”.
hence:
; name one; name two; name three
and so on.
I recommend keeping the list in alphabetical order, in a file. On the Mac here I use a clipping file because it’s fast and easy, and I don’t have editing capability (once I’ve pulled it to the desktop or into the folder, all I can do is rename or delete it). The ping list includes everyone who wishes to join, and you can exclude your own name, because the ping message will show up anyway in your “my posts” or “in forum” screen.
Then all you need is a ping message of some sort. Check out the Astronomy Picture of the Day (an old, old list that I foolishly agreed to revive. Hey, you want to take over as manager?) for a barebones example of one.
today’s topic:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2729165/posts
list of topics:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/apod-chat/index
Teach me Alchemy. :-)
Debate starter:
Please make (or disprove) the argument that a God who is both eternal and omniscient could have created a universe with the initial parameters such as the ones we know to be true of our universe knowing that 15 billion years later, human beings would have arisen through evolution.
Please make (or disprove) the argument that human beings were the goal of God’s operations at the creation of this universe even if the goal and the original starting point of the operation are separated by 15 billion years.
Good luck!
I should have used this link instead: it’s the APoD list ‘blog topic, and there’s a prefab list of the rest of the year, one click opens the actual NASA page, the other link starts up the new topic.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2719642/posts?page=50#50
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I’m in. For what it’s worth, I was an atheist for most of my life as well. Now my faith waxes and wanes so I don’t know what the hell I really am. I like to think of science and rationality as the one thing I can truly count on when nothing else makes sense.
If you put together a ping list put me on it , please.