Re: Evidence for "Big Bang Theory"

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}==========Yasha Hartberg, 5/15/95==========
}<<deleted dementia>>
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However, what are your controls? You have to have some sort of
}positive
}control to prove that your technique is working and that it is
}capable of
}demonstrating a positive result. You also must have some sort of
}negative
}control to not only show that your technique won't give spurious
}positive
}results but also that your technique is capable of giving an
}accurate
}negative answer.
}
} <<snip>>
}
}In the meantime, the Hopi were never concerned because you
}clearly weren't
}defining their gods within you're experimental design. I'd say
}your
}chances of getting a grant renewal are nil!
}
How very strange...I didn't know experimental controls were absolutely
necessary. Explain how you would use them in astronomy.
}
}So let me repeat. The existence of God is NOT a scientific
}question!

Apparently you are not familiar with the work of Penrose. He claims to be
researching the existance of God and to be defining a physics of mind (see
OMEGA_POINT_THEORY). Don't be so hasty!

}Unfortunately, too few people realize this and, especially in such
}realms
}as evolutionary theory, abiogenesis, and the Big Bang, scientists
}are
}being accused of trying to disprove the existence of God. This is
}creating a tremendous backlash against the whole of scientific
}research.

Nobody I know claims this and, for better or worse, I know a very large number
of theists, many of whom are very well known scientists (e.g., Owen Gingerich,
Sir John Ecles, Karl Popper, etc.)

}At least in part this is contributing to the growing trend toward
}religious fundamentalism. If such a movement gains much more
}momentum, we
}may find it almost impossible to get funding to do research in
}areas which
}the people at large consider to challenge the existence of God.
}
What nonsense.
}
}Yasha Hartberg
}Texas A&M University
}"The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's." Andy Warhol
}

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