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Response to search engine query: What is the Colliding Universes blog about?

June 23, 2009 Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design
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I was asked to define my littlest blog for a “deep” search engine group, Feedmil, and replied as follows:

Colliding Universes takes a critical look at cosmology, especially its many unexplained assumptions. Here’s one:

Earth is not special. There must be many planets that host life forms.

Now, what if we find 3000 exoplanets and none host life forms?

Does that suggest that Earth is special?

No, many cosmologists would say. We just haven’t looked hard enough. Find 3000 more.

It becomes obvious that their research is intended to confirm the “not special” view, and that – for both practical and philosophical reasons – it cannot be disconfirmed.

The practical reason is that they can always argue, “They’re out there somewhere.” The philosophical reason is that they are determined to believe what they want to believe.

That’s fine, but don’t call it science.

Incidentally, even if, after a search of 6000, two other planets were found that had life forms, we would know that there are three special planets, ours being one.

But don’t expect the pop science media to interpret it that way.

Also just up at Colliding Universes, my blog on competing theories of our universe:

Extraterrestrial life: Immanuel Kant, meet Frank Drake and Carl Sagan

Recession? Finally, big science gets the picture: Think payload

Conference: Quantum to Cosmos Festival

Time and space: Can we cure everything by advanced technology?

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34 Responses to Response to search engine query: What is the Colliding Universes blog about?

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    Upright BiPedJune 26, 2009 at 5:09 pm

    Well Graham, what can be said?

    You come here, you make stupid comments, you are given info, then you say you haven’t actually tried to understand the issue, so you are given the benefit of the doubt, then you return with the same stupid comments.

    Nicely done.

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    Upright BiPedJune 26, 2009 at 5:16 pm

    (noted)

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    herbJune 26, 2009 at 5:20 pm

    UrbanMysticDee,

    “Debunking” is not and has never been part of science. Science doesn’t debunk, magicians and media skeptics debunk. 7% of the UFO sitings in Project Blue Book special report remain unidentified. If instead it were 7% of drugs tested had the potential to cure every form of cancer researchers would be doing everything they could to investigate those 7% farther, not saying “most drugs can’t cure cancer so we shouldn’t even try.”

    Nice post. What I find most interesting about UFO’s is that just about everyone seems to have a story. Both my parents have had paranormal/UFO encounters, and I myself had a sighting which I can’t explain about 25 years ago. Whatever the cause, I think it’s clear something is going on, whether it’s aliens or some sort of government coverup.

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