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As mentioned above, Billy Joel and Bernie Taupin have some amazing lyrics. For example, Billy Joel's "Angry Young Man": and Vienna: In these songs and in many others he manages to express in a few lines ideas that'd take me a few pages to write about. In addition, The Beatles have a few...

I'm pretty sure that it's a reference to the Radio Gaga radio station. (The same station that's referenced by the Queen song of that name)

It wouldn't disprove the being because the being might not be operating by the assumptions of computer science. For example, it could solve the problem in exponential time, but give us the answer in polynomial time by looking into the future to see the answer to it's calculation.

First of all, it might be more fruitful to investigate how a collection of neurons might give rise to consciousness. If we continue the previously mentioned "how do atoms make a car" analogy, then it's easier to start with the question "how can scraps of metal form a car" as that's closer to...

bobze: Thanks for those links, John Endler's guppy experiment is fascinating. Now I take back what I said before. I think that my mistake was that I failed to recognize a distinction similar but not identical to the one that DaveC426913 pointed out. I was looking at evolution as more of an...

First of all, thank you for the interesting and well informed posts. I think that they helped me answer my original question. Basically, I think that the answer is that even though it's theoretically possible to devise a decisive experiment for evolution, similar to what can be done in...

I think that this is the difference between most evidence for evolution and evidence for physical theories. Of course it's possible to come up with ways that evolution could have been falsified [the famous rabbit in the Cambrian for example], but that isn't as powerful as an experiment designed...

I'm not "accusing" the evolutionists of anything. As I mentioned above, I wasn't trying to start a debate regarding the veracity of evolution. Because of the many types of evidence, I'm convinced that evolution happened. I'm just trying to ask a question about one fine point of the theory...

"[URL Why Evolution is True[/URL] by Jerry Coyne

Exactly. Obviously, I'm not fully comparing the them, there's a lot of evidence for evolution regardless of the predictions I mentioned. I'm only comparing one aspect of the two. Don't you agree that in order for predictions to prove anything, they have to come true consistently? You say...

I'm currently reading a book that presents the different kinds of evidence for evolution. Throughout the book, the author claims that evolution can make certain testable predictions. For example, he writes about biologists who examined birds and reptiles and predicted that they'd find a common...

Hi, In the end lego was too expensive so I used carboplast, popsicle sticks, plastic bottles, rubber bands and a glue gun. Here's the result: The turing machine in the movie can run down the track and flip bits according to a program determined by the wiring. Currently it can only execute...

Let's say that I have two complex numbers, a and b, with different arguments. From a few "experiments" with a computer, I think that there always exists a positive integer n such that -pi/2 <= Arg(a^n) <= pi/2 and pi/2 <= Arg(b^n) <= 3pi/2. In other words, if Arg(a) = thetaA and Arg(b) =...

Let's say that a is an ordinal and it's cantor normal form is: a = {\omega^{\beta_1}}c_1 + {\omega^{\beta_2}}c_2 + ... I read that a \omega = {\omega^{\beta_1+1}} But I couldn't find a proof anywhere. Can someone give me a source or point me in the right direction so that I can prove...

I'd like to do that but the modem is inside the router. The adsl line does straight into the router.