observation

While messing with Google Earth, I noticed this. A number of oddly straight lines in the Pacific ocean. The first thing I thought of was the result of a meteor impact, so I took some pictures to highlight their location in relation to the Chicxulub crater. (Please excuse the poor quality)...

Evolution and "direct observation": Be careful what you wish for. :D

I clipped and fused two of my posts from Physics Forums. It's an argument that explains my position of the necessity of observation in determining the truth of premises that refer to existents. First, the prescriptive laws of reasoning (aka logic) cannot be proven "right" within the system of...

Being the recent purchaser of a new portable shortwave set (the Chinese version of a Grundig FR200 -- I'm pleasantly surprised with the selectivity and sensitivity), I noticed something the other night while tuning the bands... Is it just me, or are the wide majority of the English-language...

I think I'm rich, therefore I am. hmmm...bank account still empty. I observe myself as a incredible hunk of a man with a devastating personality.........no still an ugly, lonely person repeadedly regected by women. :( I have faith that I am an intelligent person.....hmmm I still don't know...

I suspect that I am somewhat older than many of you other jref'ers, but it strikes me that my generation, our generation, the "flower" generation, the generation that brought us the "Sexual Revolution" and was always talking about freedom and had so much contempt for our stodgy, stick in the mud...