Not exact matches
In my post on that, I divided Fermi thinkers into two camps — those who think there's no other highly
intelligent life out there
at all because of some Great Filter, and those who believe there must be plenty of
intelligent life and that we don't see signs of any for some other reason.
And so when I read Ben Graham, sort of a light bulb went off just this little article and I started reading everything I could about what he had written, both security analysis and the
intelligent investor, and eventually led my way to Warren Buffett and you know, sort of the rest is history, it's a very good age, you know I was younger than 21
at the time you know junior year of college to recognize that this was what I was going to be doing the rest my
life.
What's
intelligent about destroying your «flawed» creations (and every other
living thing that liveth) on a populated world, rather than killing 2 flawed beings (Adam & Eve) then starting over,
AT THE BEGINNING?
This would imply that atheists tend to be
intelligent, but underachieving, sad bitter men who watch others succeed in
life and snipe
at the fools who pass them by.
We know that nothing comes from nothing, so
life must come from something and that something must be
at least powerful and
intelligent enough to start something (i.e., the complex universe we
live in).
It is the reverse as it is a miracle
intelligent life exists
at all.
Given that the Milky Way alone has hundreds of billions of stars, and there are many hundreds of billions, perhaps trillions of galaxies in the universe, and there may even be multiple universes, it is statistically certain that
at least a few percentage of those trillions of stars will host some
intelligent life.
Again, it is, alas, still possible for otherwise
intelligent people to jeer
at Christianity as a «pie - in - the - sky» religion which has little or no contact with day - to - day
life.
We are lucky enough to
live in a time during which technology has made our
lives comfortable and generally easy (
at least in the west) but we are not more
intelligent, compassionate, more moral, etc. than our predecessors.
I'll even offer observations - humans have manipulated existing organisms dna, created new virus and bacteria, clone animals, and attempt to create new animals - yet simple minded folks still reject the idea that another more
intelligent creature might have done the same thing and created
life on earth in the same fashion while
at the same time acknowledging that there is a strong likelihood of other
life existing in this universe - talk about being dumbed down and arrogant.
He's younger, he's more cosmopolitan, he's
intelligent, he's spent a significant amount of time
living overseas, his religious faith is complicated
at best, and his U.S. citizenship, while proven, has been questioned.
No one claims fine tuning does not exist
at several levels absent of which there could be no
intelligent life on earth (or earth for that matter).
= > Dawkins is a biologist and
at best would agree that there are 720 minimum requirements allowing the creation of
intelligent life.
The future of civilization, rising
at this moment from the ruins of materialism, would seem to lie in an
intelligent use by man of the ultimate source of spiritual power (Begbie,
Life - Changers, P. 22).
At the same time, only with
intelligent life can there be any sense of alienation from divine creativity, any awareness of our capacity to thwart the divine purpose by self - centered activities randomly conflicting with one another.
Hence, good education must have as one of its major purposes a participation in the common
life at an
intelligent level, with due recognition of all that is relevant to augmenting that
life.
I would never want to run down the importance of the intellect; I spend a lot of my time reminding people that you need to be
at least as
intelligent in your faith as in the rest of your
life.
Can not God treat us as
intelligent adults and let us have
at least a few hints as to what
life is all about?
He's so
intelligent and so great
at basketball, but he's simple about
life.
We are
intelligent and independent (not
living at home as adults).
«The association between marital history
at midlife (in 1950) and mortality (as of 1991) was studied in a group of
intelligent, educated men and women (N = 1,077) who participated in the Terman
Life - Cycle Study initiated by Lewis Terman in 1921.
And absolutely, the problem is SO MUCH BIGGER than one person's choices: the amount of misinformation floating around out there (and the amount of it that comes from otherwise
intelligent, highly trained medical professionals), the lack of help and support for new nursing moms, the lack of adequate maternity leave in the US (in Canada, where I
live, one can take up to 50 weeks» leave with unemployment pay), the persistent idea that dads «need» to bottle - feed their babies in order to bond with them, the idea that formula is «normal» and breastfeeding is «best» — in some places it really seems like you'd need a will of iron to keep
at it when the going gets tough.
«If you find
intelligent life elsewhere, [you] know that you're not the only kid on the block,» says Seth Shostak, an astronomer
at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif..
At first glance,
intelligent design looks like the same argument that evolution's foes have made since 1859, when Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species: Only a divine intelligence could have created something as complex as
life on Earth.
Any
intelligent aliens we meet could be so far advanced we might have a hard time even recognizing them as being
life - forms
at all.
As defined by Nick Bostrom
at Oxford University, an existential catastrophe is one which extinguishes Earth - originating
intelligent life or permanently destroys a substantial part of its potential.
Many distinguished scientists proclaim that the universe is teeming with
life,
at least some of it
intelligent.
The race to find
intelligent life, or any
life at all, beyond Earth has been a heated space scramble for decades.
«Systems like those that we investigated, and moon systems orbiting a habitable - zone giant planet, are among the few scenarios where
life —
intelligent life in particular — could exist in two places
at the same time and in the same system.»
Astrobiologists believe
intelligent life is most likely to be found on alien worlds
at least as old as the Earth.
If we looked
at climate change as a predictable consequence of
intelligent life — and a process that tends to follow specific patterns — we might be better equipped to figure out how to stop it.
Humankind has long looked
at the stars and wondered if there is
intelligent life out there.
Dr Seth Shostak is the Senior Astronomer
at the SETI Institute in California, and is part of the research team using large radio telescopes to search for evidence of
intelligent life elsewhere.
I believe 1000 ^ 8 is a generous estimate for the number of stars in the visible universe, so if we find that we can identify more than 8 independent 1/1000 conditions needed for the evolution of
intelligent (technical)
life then it looks like we'll have run out of candidate stars other than the sun and may count ourselves very fortunate to have beaten the staggering odds against being here
at all.
It was a letdown for those of us who marvel
at the thought of
intelligent life elsewhere in the galaxy, but this latest announcement might just make up for it.
Yes, protein shakes are not just for the stereotypical meat heads you sometimes see down
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He suggests that if a woman
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at home and work, often in a hurry, dealing with many different things
at the same time, if she doesn't rest and sleep long enough
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