*comedy

i assume by 'holy' they mean the feeling of a spiritual-like experience. even though what's experienced doesn't technically have to exist - homo sapiens have evolved with such 'feelings'.

everytime they spread intelligent design lies they should have The Greatest Show On Earth thrown at them, or have it read to them very slowly, using smaller simpler words that they can understand.

it's hard to weigh up realistically. the greater the population the more minds able to work on the world's problems... the more people - the smaller the fraction of the population die in climate chaos.
not a popular way to look at it i know... but hell, anything we do or don't do as individuals is insignificant, compared to which alternative power sources us drones are supplied with by our governments.
worth bearing in mind but nothing to live your own life by..

good follow-up of the recent vid, the promo for his new series.

the maths example reminded me of the scene in room101 from 1984, re-enacted also here in star trek -
http://www.videosift.com/video/Captain-Picard-on-Torture

i hate the way it says "you are wrong!", haha, i didn't think it was done on computers but i am still wrong!? hehe

i guess it was followed wth a further answer, but his punchline didn't really answer the question regarding empathy to other's worldviews.
got me thinking for a second though, he's not gonna sway hardcore religious folk anyway. the ones that would be offended.
the people that can be swayed by the evidence are the fence-sitters, and so he probably does take a good approach, battle the stupid out of people.

here it is. Kaboom.

is tis the same but louder? - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrSms6nAPgU

Earth is thought to have had rings, they became the Moon

he's making a mockery i think, it's parody cleverly done.

>> ^lucky760:

Nothing is real until it has been observed! This clearly needs thinking about. Are we really saying that in the 'real' world - outside of the laboratory - that until a thing has been observed it doesn't exist? This is precisely what the Copenhagen Interpretation is telling us about reality."


meteorites crash through people's rooftops. so, nope...

it's not all that strange as long as you stop looking at things from a hominid perspective, seeing a 3D world, with linear real-time causations etc.
fundamentally the universe is maths, just mathematic probabilities, laws and limits at certain values - of a possibly infinite array (this is just one branch of possibilities where things like us could occur).
so, when understanding it like this - the smallest detectable limits of this place all just comes down to probabilities, it's all just made of maths. not building blocks, not stuff, but just potentials.

At the very least, 'it seems' there's maybe an interesting experiment to attempt from what appeared to be a video..

he sounds more like kermit on the chrous of the glorious dawn one i think