(January 25, 2014 at 11:43 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote:(January 25, 2014 at 8:48 pm)orogenicman Wrote: I doubt that anyone with half a brain would misunderstand what Krauss was saying when he used the word "nothing", particularly since he explained what he meant, though I could be wrong.
The problem is that Krauss specifically said that physics can and has shown how the universe came from nothing. Initially, it's clear he means that physics can show that the universe came from quantum foam. The problem is, Krauss has doubled down on the growing criticism and, in a debate against Dinesh D'Souza, said that it can show that the universe came from 'absolute nothing', which is utter bullshit. Krauss just needs to come clean, as his argument is a non sequitur in terms of the universe coming from 'nothing'.
Yeah, but Dinesh D'Souza has been charged with campaign finance fraud, and is a creationist, so why would you take stock in what he has to say on the matter?
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"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
