Posted in Logic, Religion, Superstition, tagged Religion, god, Logic, Rational, reason, reasoning, argument, knowledge, deductive, science vs religion, non-belief, non-believing, assumption, metaphysical, understandings, Logical Fallacies, formal fallacies, informal fallacies, Ad Hominem, justifications, abusive, Circumstantial, Circularity, conclusion, Correlation not causation, Generalisations, Straw Man, The amazing atheist on July 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Logical fallacies are errors in reasoned thinking and they happen to appear a lot, these are simply the result of a method of argument that appears to work on the surface but which does not stand up when questioned. I tend to view fallacies not as bits of knowledge that have been created rather they [...]
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Posted in Logic, Science, tagged Science, Logic, Understanding, reason, argument, induction, abnormalities, Ghost hunters, ghosts, paranormal, EVP, ghost acts, deduction, deduce, nonscience, objective knowledge, white noise, scientific findings, process of logic, reliability, experiments, reasoned process, electronic voice phenomenon, paranormal events, Sherlock Holmes, Bertrand Russell, assumption, rules of science, general law, scientific approach, scientific rules, scientific, falsificationism, what is this thing called science on June 18, 2008 | No Comments »
When you first enter the discussion of the concepts of induction and deduction there is a confusing analogy that has to do with swans, I will try my best to steer away from this since it never really makes it clear at all. Still this is my case to why Ghost Hunters the TV show, [...]
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Posted in Logic, Religion, Science, tagged Religion, islam, god, Science, Rational, Understanding, rules, Catholic, evolution, Muslim, Jewish, creationists, evolution vs creationists, rules of evolution, extinct, coelacanth fish, blind chance, crocodiles, survival of the fittest, arguments against evolution, natural selection, random chance, Richard Dawkins, The blind Watchmaker, united church of god, accidents, abnormalities, genetic, genetic change, genetic material, embryo, Darwin, random monkey chance, catholic church, Jew on May 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Humans by our very nature really don’t understand what random chance means, still let me provide an introduction to the topic. What set of numbers are more likely to win the lottery you can pick either 7 13 17 23 32 41 or 1 2 3 4 5 6? Ok you might try to catch [...]
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Posted in Logic, Science, tagged Logic, Rational, reason, evolution, Earth, designed, design, designer, life, Enceladus, deductive, scientific theory, Carolyn Porco, Saturn, live, life on earth on April 30, 2008 | No Comments »
I was listening to a recently filmed debate and the idea came across that the earth was designed; this was presented by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. These are the things he mentions, which I have heard before, I would like to summarize them; if the earth were a little closer or further away, then the earth [...]
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Posted in Logic, Science, tagged Religion, Science, Understanding, method, methods, faith, misconceptions, induction, model, attitude, nation states, history, history of science, enlightenment, Europe, agenda, Vienna, comte, body of knowledge, Ayer, Carnap, Opticks, eugenics, industrial revolution, experiment, experimental, contradiction, science is wrong, world, knowledge, human, society, improvements on April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
One thing that amazes me is that science tends to work quite often; I don’t need to tell you that you already know. The point here is that it tends to work, still there are places where the misunderstanding of science comes in, these are my thoughts on how science sometimes is not based upon [...]
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www.Ted.com - Interesting talks and discussions on many things, mostly around science, cultural and social problems.
www.richarddawkins.net - The Man that started my belief of in non-religion.
www.patcondell.net - this guy funny and against religion, although sometimes the logic is not there he certainly makes me laugh.
www.hitchensweb.com - insulting and rude, still he always makes a good point!
www.thesciencenetwork.org [...]
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Donnelly is a statistician, please keep reading it’s more interesting than it sounds, in his talk discussing errors that people use when they apply statistics it shows a real example of rational understanding. He goes onto talk about disease tests being right 99%, why this does not mean the chance of the test being right [...]
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Posted in Logic, Science, tagged Atlantis, conspiracy, conspiracy theory, Da Vinci code, evidence, Graham Hancock, illogical, Logic, luck, method, methodological, pattern, pattern seeking, pyramids, Random, reason, reasoning, Rive, Science, theory, Understanding on April 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Rives highlights the one thing that really gets to me, there is a method that human brains normally use; they create patterns when there is just randomness. If you are thinking of someone and then the phone rings to only find that it is actually them, it’s nothing metaphysical or spooky it’s just random chance. [...]
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Posted in Logic, Science, tagged Science, Logic, Understanding, Ghost, Hunters, USA, TV, error, mistake, misconception on April 15, 2008 | No Comments »
*Picture from www.scifi.com/ghosthunters
Ghost Hunters is an American TV show where they go to places, either homes or places like lighthouses, with the aim to investigate them scientifically. They use all sorts of equipment and it’s what has been recorded that they have to use as the evidence of any proof that paranormal activity is going [...]
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Posted in Logic, Science, tagged Barry Schwartz, Choice, happiness, happy, Logic, Rational, Science, Ted, Understanding on April 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Barry Schwartz, in his Ted lecture, demonstrates how having too much choice is always too much, of course having no choice is too little, the goal is to have some choice and then you will always be happy. Barry highlights some of the reasons to why we feel unhappy with too much choice; an example [...]
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