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This is also obvious when a strain name becomes popular and then suddenly everyone has their own version. Oh, Snoop Dogg says Cookie Blaze Bomber is the shit, and now everyone wants it? Better get a cutting and knock it up with some kush pollen, and now we have the Blazing Kush Bomb. The...

My unqualified opinion of JP; He's an apologist for bad ideas who occasionally says some rational things on accident and constantly gets shade for things he didn't actually say or mean instead of the horrible stuff he actually says and means.

My views do not depend on eschewing emotions, but rather, carefully navigating them. Emotions are a wonderful and valuable tool of the human intellect. I believe that if one does not pay attention to emotion, one cannot be fully informed. The problem is that the more we learn about human...

The mechanisms behind what you described are known as confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance. These are demonstrable, repeatable and well documented features of human intelligence. One wonders why God would need to include built-in hurtles to rationality when he designed intelligence...

I imagine what he would say is that God is not a theory or explanation, but a person. God gave us science and so science cannot disprove God. This is, at least, what he says in some of his debates. I'm not sure how much weight should be given to the fact that Lennox considers intelligence to...

Technically religious "theories" are actually something called immunized hypotheses. This is when an explanation is constructed in such a way as to avoid any attempt at falsification. IOW the hypothesis is immune to criticism. This is done by special pleading/moving the goal posts to the...

You've given us Pascal's Wager, which is bad logic and was debunked a couple of hundred years ago. The problem with Pascal's wager is that there are hundreds of Gods to choose from, and many of them do not want you to worship any God but themselves. So, the odds that you happen to have picked...

Yes, potential energy is stored in the ball as it's lifted, and when dropped it's converted to kinetic energy. A rock is solid, meaning it doesn't deform, so no, or very little, energy gets dissipated by deforming it. Instead, the energy may go into the surface/floor and leave a dent. This is...

Everything in the simulation would have to have been inserted or emerge from what has been inserted. The idea basically suffers the same flaws as solipsism because it is unfalsifiable. We can't ask ourselves what reality would look like if it weren't being simulated, because if we are in a...

No, everything I wrote past the first line was gibberish. I was trying to be silly. Despite my namesake, physics is not in my wheelhouse. It's been a few years since college, but I believe, if we are talking about a rubber ball, the primary reason it bounces is because of the elasticity...

When the ball is lifted into the air it gains potential energy. Gravity hungers for this energy and reaches out with the force of greed to suck the energy towards it. When the ball hits the floor gravity is disrupted because gravity existed before man made objects. This disruption causes...

"From a critical thinking perspective it is important to recognize that when we talk about conspiracy theorists we are referring to a thought process, not necessarily the notion of conspiracies themselves. Often when I write about conspiracy theories (invariably, actually) there will be one or...

Hrmm, what the kids are listening to today sounds a lot like what I was listening to in the 90's.

Nope, I'm saying that pointing to one thing as evidence for another thing is simple, easy, and works for any hypothesis. It doesn't take a denier or a shill to find "you should believe in my conspiracy because other conspiracies have happened" to be less than convincing. It only makes sense if...

You know, there is nothing wrong with noticing a commonality and asking if it contributes to the cause. The problems start when anyone who isn't convinced gets labeled a denier, a sheep or a shill. Any professional investigation works in the opposite direction. Seek out information and ways...

Right, hes taking a rule imposed onto reality by the universe and applying it to the universe itself without justification. But even if the universe did have a beginning, or, as they say, something came from nothing, that still doesn't explain why his logic wouldn't apply to the proposed...

Science is a process. Logic is part of the structure of that process, but I would say logic falls in the necessary but not sufficient category. The problem with logic is that it works on a garbage-in garbage-out rule. Part of science is making sure what you put in isn't garbage. One can be...

"The Chewbacca Defense is any legal or propaganda strategy that seeks to overwhelm its audience with nonsensical arguments, as a way of confusing the audience and drowning out legitimate opposing arguments. It also has, intentionally or unintentionally, the effect of confusing the opponent so...

I remember when this thread was vibrant and alive, before the dreadful wind and rain.