RE: Holy Crap He's an Idiot
April 23, 2014 at 6:50 pm
(This post was last modified: April 23, 2014 at 6:54 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(April 23, 2014 at 6:43 pm)Heywood Wrote:(April 23, 2014 at 6:13 pm)Cato Wrote: Heywood,
It's impossible for me to accept that you were just role playing for Pinser's edification when you immediately continue to float the notion that innumerable measured events/conditions aren't really constant, but rather just a large collection of chance occurrences that just happen to arrive at the same value every time.
I believe the constants of nature are indeed constant. That belief is one of faith because it is possible a constant could just be a large collection of chance occurrences that just happen to arrive at the same value every time.
Please quantify the probability of this specific possibility, or at least describe how in principle it can be done.
If you don't know how this is done, or why this needs to be done, don't think it is something that is unknown, or is not required to be known for anyone to acquire more than the most superficial understanding of science.
You see, you may think fundaments of science is faith, it is not. It is a rigorous evaluation of the probability of each of the possible alternative explanation being true in light of available evidence.
