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From: Scott Vigil
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 10:17 AM
To: Bryan Hunt
Subject: Telepathy and Wireless Telegraphy
Oliver Lodge was a famous physicist. In the
1880’s, he used lab protocols to investigate claims of telepathy. This was part
of a great movement that started in the 1870’s by the Romantics who wanted to
put God back in science.
Lodge did see some interesting results where
one girl was seeing pictures that another was placing into her mind. I don’t
know why his research wasn’t furthered. Perhaps work the CIA did in the 70’s
built on it. It’s classified, so I don’t know.
But an interesting serendipity was that Lodge
was the first to realize the mechanism needed for wireless telegraphy in 1894.
The lecture contains that discussion falls
around the 40 minute marker.
In general, the Victorian’s were having a
crisis of faith. Science was driving God into smaller and smaller corners of
the room. In Lecture
15, Raia discusses how they made great efforts in an attempt to
bring God back into the physical domain by using the tools of science to study
spiritual phenomena that people were describing at the time.
From: Scott Vigil
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 10:34 AM
To: Bryan Hunt
Subject: "you will do even greater miracles than these"
Why are Christians not healing
people and doing greater miracles? Why is this not being studied in a
laboratory setting. You wouldn’t need to by monkeying
around with ID if people were being healed according to the John 14:12…
http://notunlikelee.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/greater-works-shall-you-do
From: Scott Vigil
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 3:36 PM
To: Bryan Hunt
Subject: Infidelity
What is worse, sexual or
emotional infidelity? What will the average woman say? What will the average
man say… as predicted by ID? What is the model that is used to predict how
these people will answer?
From: Scott Vigil
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 9:19 AM
To: Bryan Hunt
Subject: Stinky T-Shirts
Experiment… Have men wear new
T-shirts 3 nights in a row and give them to researchers. Analyze each man for
facial and bodily symmetry (a measure of fitness).
Have women rate the sexiness and
desirability of each T-shirt based on smell. Take data on each woman as to
where she is in her menstrual cycle at the time she smells the T-shirts.
What does ID predict will happen?
Evolution predicts something will
happen, and it does… truly bizarre.
From: Scott Vigil
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 9:53 AM
To: Bryan Hunt
Subject: BBC / Ken Miller Misrepresent Core Intelligent Design Argument
A minute and
30 seconds. Surely you
have enough time for that.
BBC / Ken
Miller Misrepresent Core Intelligent Design Argument
From: Scott Vigil
Sent: Monday, October 7, 2013 1:16 PM
To: Bryan Hunt
Subject: Discovery Institute
If
you know so much and have the answers, you really should pose your questions to
the Discovery Institute.
The problem with
this is that the organization has shown itself to be entirely biased and
untrustworthy as a source of knowledge and thinking.
Items of
evidence are the Wedge Document and the text, “Of Pandas and People”.
The Wedge
Document showed a manifesto to supplant evolution as the predominant scientific
view of origins in a way that made it clear that the organization was much more
of a political group than one centered on scientific inquiry.
Of Pandas and
People was the result of simple textual search and replace of creationist words
with pseudo-scientific terms.
So, this group
simply cannot be trusted. And, to depend on it for one’s
understanding of our origins is really just the religious equivalent of
money laundering. If you take a look at the links I sent, you’ll see ample
evidence to support this.
Very
few if any come back with counter proposals. at least
in the ones I have read.
It’s not a
scientific institution. It can put anything it wants on its web site and leave
anything out it wants. Further, the dishonesty the organization has shown place
it into the realm of apologetics, not science.
From: Scott Vigil
Sent: Tuesday, October 8, 2013 11:14 PM
To: Bryan Hunt
Subject: Brian Greene: Making sense of string theory
This guy has a possible
explanation for why the constants of the universe appear to be “tuned” and
cannot be tweaked.
Brian Greene:
Making sense of string theory
From: Scott Vigil
Sent: Monday, October 7, 2013 1:27 PM
To: Bryan Hunt
Subject: David Attenborough: Origin of Life, Conquest, BBC
Bryan,
Next time you
come across a real hot-shot, pass them these questions. With a good model of
reality, they can easily be answered. Without such a model, answering them I
would think would be impossible.
Why do legs and
eyes not appear throughout the fossil record? Instead, they appear at a
specific time, later rather than earlier.
Why do small
organisms appear prior to larger organisms in the fossil record?
Why do organisms
first appear in water and not on land?
Why is such a high percentage of organisms found in the fossil
record extinct?
Why are there
over 50,000 trilobite species?
Why are
trilobites no longer the predominate species they once were? In fact, they
appear to be completely and entirely extinct.
Why were crabs
and lobsters not around during periods in which trilobites flourished?
These come to
mind after seeing the following.
David
Attenborough: Origin of Life, Conquest, BBC
I’m not sure if
you realize how many of my questions you have not been able to answer. Almost
all of them can be readily answered with an accurate scientific model. I wonder
if you think about this when you do your ID talks…
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