Comments on: The Internet is Very Interesting Today https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/11/the-internet-is-very-interesti/ Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:28:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/11/the-internet-is-very-interesti/#comment-506898 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:28:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/08/11/the-internet-is-very-interesti/#comment-506898 Its the id connection, as a rhetorical barb. I’m actually fitting this nicely into a blog post I’m writing.

]]> By: Raging Bee https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/11/the-internet-is-very-interesti/#comment-506897 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:25:26 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/08/11/the-internet-is-very-interesti/#comment-506897 That is, I believe the Universe is alive. I think SETI is a grand idea. For the Atheist the justification for spending money searching for life “out there” is a bit harder to come by.

What, an atheist can’t believe there’s other species out there and we should try to locate them? Where do you get that?

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/11/the-internet-is-very-interesti/#comment-506896 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:21:21 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/08/11/the-internet-is-very-interesti/#comment-506896 I never thought about it from an atheist perspective. As a scientist I assume there is life out there but that there is a low poss. of getting a signal, but missing it would be a cosmic level embarrassment! If I was in charge of funding for SETI I’d try to ensure that SETI data collection had multiple uses . THey are, after all, pointing big machines at the sky.

SETI and ID are different.

There is no a priori hint of ID, but there is an a priori hint of intelligent life in the universe.

]]> By: bks https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/11/the-internet-is-very-interesti/#comment-506895 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:06:49 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/08/11/the-internet-is-very-interesti/#comment-506895 What is the scientific basis for continuing SETI? It presents certain problems for the anti-ID college as presented here:

http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/06-02-16/

Of course, as a Pantheist I believe that life *is* a universal principle. That is, I believe the Universe is alive. I think SETI is a grand idea. For the Atheist the justification for spending money searching for life “out there” is a bit harder to come by.

–bks

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