----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 11:52 AM Subject: Re: KEP part 2 L3
>>The reason I > > prefer data over thought experiments is that one can check one's > > own thinking with data better than one can check it with a thought > > experiment...which usually turns out just as expected. :-) > > I'll remind you of this the next time discussion of god comes up. Sure, but remember the differences. She made statements about historical phenomenon. God, love, self-awareness, right and wrong, and free will are subject to neither emperical comfirmation or falsification. Applications, once axioms are posited, are a different thing. If you could, for example, show how free will is inconsistent with experimental results, then I'd have to conceed it was falsified. Until then, it is no more falisfied than the statement that you are self-aware. > Here's some data from the CIA World Factbook (numbers are 2004 > estimated) That's kind of interesting, because the resident alien population is so much lower in places like Germany than in the US. For example, the Turkish population has been around 2%-3% in Germany for a few decades. The minority population is Canada is also quite low. I wonder if the recent influx in Europe is due to the expanded EU, with East European citizens now having the right to live and work elsewhere in the EU. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
