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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Hope on March 16, 2016, 03:52:46 PM

Title: Science or Religion?
Post by: Hope on March 16, 2016, 03:52:46 PM
www.youtube.com/Technion

I always like it when this kind of thing can be used to tell a story!!
Title: Re: Science or Religion?
Post by: Owlswing on March 16, 2016, 04:08:25 PM

www.youtube.com/Technion

I always like it when this kind of thing can be used to tell a story!!


Just what, precisely, does this demonstration and the science that it demonstrates have to do with religion? Unless, of course, your religion is Pure Science!
Title: Re: Science or Religion?
Post by: Hope on March 16, 2016, 04:30:41 PM
Just what, precisely, does this demonstration and the science that it demonstrates have to do with religion? Unless, of course, your religion is Pure Science!
Have you watched the viudeo - it is appropriately sub-titled though some of the 'sub-titles' are at the top of the screen.
Title: Re: Science or Religion?
Post by: Owlswing on March 16, 2016, 06:25:50 PM

Have you watched the viudeo - it is appropriately sub-titled though some of the 'sub-titles' are at the top of the screen.


Not on the version I watched!

It is titled Quantum Levitation and Mysteries of Superconductors Explained and is a scientific lecture on that subject and on the search for a superconductor that operates at a higher temperature than that of liquid noitrogen.

Where is the religion?
Title: Re: Science or Religion?
Post by: Stranger on March 17, 2016, 07:42:31 AM
Science or Religion?

Science.
Title: Re: Science or Religion?
Post by: Hope on March 17, 2016, 04:28:20 PM
My apologies; I've just realised that I took the URL from my address box just after the end of the video, by which time it had returned to the parent url.

Here is the proper one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baQfqoZrEvI
Title: Re: Science or Religion?
Post by: ippy on March 17, 2016, 05:03:07 PM
Science or Religion?

Why not, Science or Magic? Science or Superstition? Science or Myth?

Not that much of a difference.

ippy
Title: Re: Science or Religion?
Post by: OH MY WORLD! on March 17, 2016, 05:50:58 PM
Science or ippy's Klingons!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRG_cu4lS4g
Title: Re: Science or Religion?
Post by: ippy on March 17, 2016, 06:39:11 PM
Science or ippy's Klingons!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRG_cu4lS4g

Woody it's you that's got the imagination and you're certainly gulible enough.

Can you prove the Klingons don't exist?
Title: Re: Science or Religion?
Post by: Leonard James on March 17, 2016, 07:01:08 PM
Woody it's you that's got the imagination and you're certainly gulible enough.

Can you prove the Klingons don't exist?

Klingons, like God, only exist in people's minds.
Title: Re: Science or Religion?
Post by: Hope on March 17, 2016, 07:29:33 PM
Science or Religion?

Why not, Science or Magic? Science or Superstition? Science or Myth?

Not that much of a difference.

ippy
I'm not too keen on associating the word 'science' with the words 'magic' or 'myth' in this way, ippy; it can give the wrong impression about science.   ;)
Title: Re: Science or Religion?
Post by: ippy on March 17, 2016, 08:37:54 PM
Klingons, like God, only exist in people's minds.

I can see there's a lot of work needed here Len, I've been on the bridge of the Enterprise you know, I think it must have been Jim's day off when I was there.

ippy
Title: Re: Science or Religion?
Post by: ippy on March 17, 2016, 08:44:20 PM
I'm not too keen on associating the word 'science' with the words 'magic' or 'myth' in this way, ippy; it can give the wrong impression about science.   ;)

Not as bad as mixing up science with religion, surly not?

ippy
Title: Re: Science or Religion?
Post by: Owlswing on March 17, 2016, 09:20:38 PM
I'm not too keen on associating the word 'science' with the words 'magic' or 'myth' in this way, ippy; it can give the wrong impression about science.   ;)

Not as bad as vice versa!
Title: Re: Science or Religion?
Post by: jeremyp on March 18, 2016, 09:13:04 AM
Science or Religion?

Why not, Science or Magic? Science or Superstition? Science or Myth?

Not that much of a difference.


Religion is real, lot's of people are afflicted by it. Magic is not (except the Paul Daniels variety). Superstition is also real, in fact, religion is a subset of superstition. So

    Science or superstition?

would be as valid as Hope's original question and it's more inclusive.
Title: Re: Science or Religion?
Post by: ippy on March 18, 2016, 11:26:09 AM
Religion is real, lot's of people are afflicted by it. Magic is not (except the Paul Daniels variety). Superstition is also real, in fact, religion is a subset of superstition. So

    Science or superstition?

would be as valid as Hope's original question and it's more inclusive.

Magic, myth superstition and religion are all in good company with each other, each individual one makes about as much unrealistic sense as any of the others, group them how you like.

ippy