I am mostly in agreement with your argument, but I'd like to play devil's advocate here, just to explore some possibilities.
ESP, more specifically the "seeing at a distance" you reference, would, I think, require intelligence to make it useful. Otherwise, if you have no idea that what you are seeing is a window into the world that you cannot see, you would not be able to act on it and therefore it would be evolutionarily useless and, as you point out, not an advantage worth keeping.
Also, if intelligence has to arise before such an ability becomes useful, it makes sense then that this adaptation would be very primitive. I am thinking of eyes here, how at first they were very primitive adaptations that let early organisms distinguish up from down based on light to the full visible spectrum organs that have evolved multiple times in different genera at different times. So perhaps some individuals do have an ability that, to the rest of us, is extra-sensory, but perhaps it is a very limited ability compared to adaptations that have been honed for millions of years.
Personally, I am not convinced that ESP exists, but I am willing to accept that such abilities may arise. So I see nothing wrong with testing to see if there might be some truth in claims for these abilities.
You really need to read the articles. To quote from one of them:
But the real kicker for the researchers was the fact that their simulations also predicted that there would be objects in the Kuiper Belt on orbits inclined perpendicularly to the plane of the planets. Batygin kept finding evidence for these in his simulations and took them to Brown. "Suddenly I realized there are objects like that," recalls Brown. In the last three years, observers have identified four objects tracing orbits roughly along one perpendicular line from Neptune and one object along another. "We plotted up the positions of those objects and their orbits, and they matched the simulations exactly," says Brown. "When we found that, my jaw sort of hit the floor."
"When the simulation aligned the distant Kuiper Belt objects and created objects like Sedna, we thought this is kind of awesome—you kill two birds with one stone," says Batygin. "But with the existence of the planet also explaining these perpendicular orbits, not only do you kill two birds, you also take down a bird that you didn't realize was sitting in a nearby tree."
I grew up in Northeast Pennsylvania. I don't know that our experiences there were unique or not, but I do suspect that far fewer people today have the same experiences I did.
Or maybe you haven't seen this NOAA Graphic that says, "August 2015 average global land and ocean temperature was the warmest August since records began in 1880."
I tend to think we have just reached the Great Filter. I can see our civilization saying, "Yeah, we'll launch that Interstellar probe as soon as we're done binge watching Breaking Bad.
Let's cut all the crap about global warming/climate change and remember that there are people living where this storm is making landfall. It doesn't matter if this is the strongest storm ever or if climate change caused this, there are real people in harm's way. This is not going to be pretty, between storm surge and rainfall over mountainous terrain and the flooding that will bring. So please keep these people in mind.
Do whatever you think best to help. whether that be prayer or cutting out a Starbuck's run to donate to the Red Cross. What are we put on this Earth for if not to help one another?
I know it goes against all that/. holds holy, but if your read TFA you would find the name - Stargrove Entertainment - at the top of the second paragraph.
I have no idea why this was modded down. It is a very valid question.
Why are drive train components accessible on any car over-the-air? I understand the need for a GPS or entertainment system to access the outside world, but why do the components of the power train or braking systems need to be accessible? Physical separation can't be all that hard and would be so much safer.
You mean that SISTER MARY JANET might really have been the former Undersecreatry (sic) of the Treasury in Nigeria? Damn, I missed out on 8.6 million dollars!
Notice I didn't say anything about forcing a person to do anything. I said that hiding behind your religious beliefs is a crock of shit. Unless you are asking every customer if they've ever cheated on their spouse, ever been divorced or ever worked on a Sunday then you are cherry picking what parts of your religion you will use to deny someone service because you are offended by who they love.
Chi-fil-A is closed on Sunday. It is the founder's sincere religious belief that his employees should follow the Biblical proscription about working on the Sabbath. But being closed on Sundays denies everyone service that day. No one can complain because all of the public is affected the same.
But refusing to seat a gay couple in your restaurant because their existence offends you is different. You are denying them service with out cause. If you seat everyone but Jews at your restaurant because you think the Jews killed Christ you are applying your interpretation of your religion to discriminate. It is not now about your religious beliefs - it is about how offended you are that these people exist. What is different about that and denying to seat a mixed race couple?
The fact that you are offended by someone's political beliefs does not mean you can refuse them service on that basis. One is protected speech, the other is denying service to a person because they offend you. I thought that was settled at that Woolworth's lunch counter...
If you set up a business and serve the public, you have to tolerate that some members of that public will have views you don't agree with. Refusing to serve them because you cannot tolerate their lifestyle or skin color or religious convictions is the very definition of intolerance.
Using your personal religious convictions to pick and chose what members of the public you will serve IS intolerance. Can a Muslim shop owner refuse entrance to a woman that does not have her head covered? Could he refuse service to a man that is clean shaven?
Intolerant is baking a cake for a person that's on their fourth marriage while refusing to bake one for a lesbian couple that is finally able to marry after twenty years together.
"Intolerant" is defining "intolerant" as: "Intolerant is baking a cake for a person that's on their fourth marriage while refusing to bake one for a lesbian couple that is finally able to marry after twenty years together"...
No,it's not. It is intolerant to say to someone that you are not as important, not worthy of the same consideration as anyone else. How else would you define intolerant?
Intolerant is baking a cake for a person that's on their fourth marriage while refusing to bake one for a lesbian couple that is finally able to marry after twenty years together.
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I am mostly in agreement with your argument, but I'd like to play devil's advocate here, just to explore some possibilities.
ESP, more specifically the "seeing at a distance" you reference, would, I think, require intelligence to make it useful. Otherwise, if you have no idea that what you are seeing is a window into the world that you cannot see, you would not be able to act on it and therefore it would be evolutionarily useless and, as you point out, not an advantage worth keeping.
Also, if intelligence has to arise before such an ability becomes useful, it makes sense then that this adaptation would be very primitive. I am thinking of eyes here, how at first they were very primitive adaptations that let early organisms distinguish up from down based on light to the full visible spectrum organs that have evolved multiple times in different genera at different times. So perhaps some individuals do have an ability that, to the rest of us, is extra-sensory, but perhaps it is a very limited ability compared to adaptations that have been honed for millions of years.
Personally, I am not convinced that ESP exists, but I am willing to accept that such abilities may arise. So I see nothing wrong with testing to see if there might be some truth in claims for these abilities.
You really need to read the articles. To quote from one of them:
But the real kicker for the researchers was the fact that their simulations also predicted that there would be objects in the Kuiper Belt on orbits inclined perpendicularly to the plane of the planets. Batygin kept finding evidence for these in his simulations and took them to Brown. "Suddenly I realized there are objects like that," recalls Brown. In the last three years, observers have identified four objects tracing orbits roughly along one perpendicular line from Neptune and one object along another. "We plotted up the positions of those objects and their orbits, and they matched the simulations exactly," says Brown. "When we found that, my jaw sort of hit the floor."
"When the simulation aligned the distant Kuiper Belt objects and created objects like Sedna, we thought this is kind of awesome—you kill two birds with one stone," says Batygin. "But with the existence of the planet also explaining these perpendicular orbits, not only do you kill two birds, you also take down a bird that you didn't realize was sitting in a nearby tree."
And it would still run WordStar and some other things
Why Mr. Martin, it's so nice to meet you!
I don't believe they exist.
I grew up in Northeast Pennsylvania. I don't know that our experiences there were unique or not, but I do suspect that far fewer people today have the same experiences I did.
When people have confidence their children will survive, they have fewer of them.
So that explains the Duggars...
I am a physicist, a real expert on stuff like that, and I know that the global temperature has not increased for almost 20 years.
Really? NASA Link for Average Global Temperature since 1884
Have you read this Scientific American article from 2010?
Or maybe you haven't seen this NOAA Graphic that says, "August 2015 average global land and ocean temperature was the warmest August since records began in 1880."
I tend to think we have just reached the Great Filter. I can see our civilization saying, "Yeah, we'll launch that Interstellar probe as soon as we're done binge watching Breaking Bad.
Let's cut all the crap about global warming/climate change and remember that there are people living where this storm is making landfall. It doesn't matter if this is the strongest storm ever or if climate change caused this, there are real people in harm's way. This is not going to be pretty, between storm surge and rainfall over mountainous terrain and the flooding that will bring. So please keep these people in mind.
Do whatever you think best to help. whether that be prayer or cutting out a Starbuck's run to donate to the Red Cross. What are we put on this Earth for if not to help one another?
“Where should one use perfume?” a young woman asked. “Wherever one wants to be kissed.” -- Coco Chanel
I know it goes against all that /. holds holy, but if your read TFA you would find the name - Stargrove Entertainment - at the top of the second paragraph.
Wasn't there an old joke that went, "The day Microsoft makes a product that doesn't suck is the day they make a vacuum cleaner."?
Nor did Lost in Space or Star Trek get a laugh track and started being about crazy hijinks of a wacky crew.
Are you thinking of something along the lines of Quark?
Quark is an example of good actors, decent writing and genuine parody dragged out WAAAAAYYYYY too long.
Being sick of and being used to are not mutually exclusive states
For relevant case studies please observe any couple married more than seven years...
No, clearly it's a problem caused by the fact there are people that would prefer to talk and just don't like to listen.
I have no idea why this was modded down. It is a very valid question.
Why are drive train components accessible on any car over-the-air? I understand the need for a GPS or entertainment system to access the outside world, but why do the components of the power train or braking systems need to be accessible? Physical separation can't be all that hard and would be so much safer.
$1.25? Contact me and I'll double, hell why not triple your funding! :)
You mean that SISTER MARY JANET might really have been the former Undersecreatry (sic) of the Treasury in Nigeria? Damn, I missed out on 8.6 million dollars!
Was apparently "WTF? Did they REALLY do that to Shireen?"
Notice I didn't say anything about forcing a person to do anything. I said that hiding behind your religious beliefs is a crock of shit. Unless you are asking every customer if they've ever cheated on their spouse, ever been divorced or ever worked on a Sunday then you are cherry picking what parts of your religion you will use to deny someone service because you are offended by who they love.
Chi-fil-A is closed on Sunday. It is the founder's sincere religious belief that his employees should follow the Biblical proscription about working on the Sabbath. But being closed on Sundays denies everyone service that day. No one can complain because all of the public is affected the same.
But refusing to seat a gay couple in your restaurant because their existence offends you is different. You are denying them service with out cause. If you seat everyone but Jews at your restaurant because you think the Jews killed Christ you are applying your interpretation of your religion to discriminate. It is not now about your religious beliefs - it is about how offended you are that these people exist. What is different about that and denying to seat a mixed race couple?
The fact that you are offended by someone's political beliefs does not mean you can refuse them service on that basis. One is protected speech, the other is denying service to a person because they offend you. I thought that was settled at that Woolworth's lunch counter...
If you set up a business and serve the public, you have to tolerate that some members of that public will have views you don't agree with. Refusing to serve them because you cannot tolerate their lifestyle or skin color or religious convictions is the very definition of intolerance.
Using your personal religious convictions to pick and chose what members of the public you will serve IS intolerance. Can a Muslim shop owner refuse entrance to a woman that does not have her head covered? Could he refuse service to a man that is clean shaven?
Intolerant is baking a cake for a person that's on their fourth marriage while refusing to bake one for a lesbian couple that is finally able to marry after twenty years together.
"Intolerant" is defining "intolerant" as: "Intolerant is baking a cake for a person that's on their fourth marriage while refusing to bake one for a lesbian couple that is finally able to marry after twenty years together"...
No,it's not. It is intolerant to say to someone that you are not as important, not worthy of the same consideration as anyone else. How else would you define intolerant?
Intolerant is baking a cake for a person that's on their fourth marriage while refusing to bake one for a lesbian couple that is finally able to marry after twenty years together.
A minimal feature set is something that is planned and purposefully implemented whereas security holes in Microsoft's products aren't.
There's a couple of thousand people at the NSA that would beg to differ with you...
No, I think it will be a smart house in Allendale, California.
See the proof here.