Recent content by Halbhh

I'm not too sure of that.... It's easy to underestimate the lawfulness -- law respecting people -- in America, but I think there's some that are swing voters....

If we could definitely answer the similar questions that some of your questions are like, then we'd have solved the main riddle of Quantum Mechanics that exercised Einstein (and motivated his debate with Bohr). We can't answer all questions. Not yet. But we do have many theories. We don't...

Yes, it's been noticeable that so many extreme weather disasters are happening in Texas so close together lately. 'Came out of nowhere': Storm-weary Texas bashed again; ...Localized flooding from the storms swept across much of Texas and the southern Plains, an area already reeling from weeks...

Actually, you might find post #760 will give a very different perspective (because it's what God actually said) regarding the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah if you haven't already seen such.

Yes you have that generally right I think. Also it might be very interesting to you to have also the actual list of the 7 sins God most hates that are actually stated in scripture in addition to (and even more authoritative than) that well known 6th century list of Pope Gregory you have listed...

Few know that later God Himself revealed the actual evils that merited the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. God literally Himself speaks and says the reasons. (but not in Genesis...) a) not caring about the poor and needy (that is, not giving food to the hungry), and ... ok, I just...

^_^ I've been there a few times. Or more than a few. heh heh....

This I've mentioned a few times, distinguishing between the 2 very unalike situations of merely impractical to calculate (for us at this time) due to complexity vs entirely unalike situation of physics being indeterministic, where even perfect total data (which...the universe itself has :-) )...

To me what I define as 'free will' (I'll give a key part of the definition later below) cannot be compatible with "determinism" (definition discussed just below), unless at least one of these 2 conditions below are true: A) One is using the word 'determinism' to refer to something other than...

Ah, here you're helpfully laying out a basic concept of (one way of saying) what is determinism. That is very old to me, my own starting point actually about 40 years ago. Back then, and for quite a while I favored/expected there must likely be a full physics determinism, so I was at that...

Physics is about how nature works -- for example, the theories called Newton's laws are a great classic example -- and the the aim and goal of physics isn't to build a 'house' exactly, but instead the main goal continues to be to figure out how nature is constructed/works. The goal is...

The process is that as soon as a plausible and interesting new theory is fully presented and seen by many, then several or even very many scientists will then respond by trying to prove it false with tests/observations. That's the scientific process. That. Trying to prove a theory false...

If by 'valid' you mean they survived observational tests, then 'no' -- very many have been shown invalid through observations and tests. So, there are 3 classes of theories in that regard: A) those that have been proven false by observations, B) those that haven't yet been disproven nor in any...

Ah, but the decision making isn't necessarily (nor even likely) to be that randomized like as you are presuming here though, I was trying to point out. It's not that mostly a person does what we expect but then occasionally does a totally random other thing against their character -- that's not...

Since warming of the surface of earth (land, air, water), no matter what cause or combinations of causes, will then lead to that warmer air above the surface always then holding more water than cooler air would hold (and when a given air mass with a lot of water vapor cools, it rains, since the...