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The Book of Mormon is a lineage record. The limited geography model has it occurring in a relatively small area north and south of the Isthmus of Tehuantapec. Within this area, the Lehite descendant element (which didn't remain distinct and isolated as a people, but merged with and partook of indig...

*If* the Lehite colony merged with and were swallowed up by an indigenous population, the numerically superior native populations DNA markers would predominant. Vast understatement. This apologetic approach has never made much sense to me. You want to claim that their genetic presence was completel...

Why would anybody want to deny that the activities of a conscious brain can affect matter? Look, my brain is currently affecting matter by typing this message. That kind of thing can only happen when I am conscious. So? Clever. But I'm not sure why you would respond with this when the only thing to...

Um, where is the math behind mind collapsing wave functions in the current equations to be found? A mathematical theory of collapse must be nonlinear, a significant departure from current quantum theory. So your suggestion that collapse theories are all a mess when collapse actually occurs is probl...

In its standard formulation and interpretation, quantum mechanics is a theory which is excellent (in fact it has met with a success unprecedented in the history of science) in telling us everything about what we observe, but it meets with serious difficulties in telling us what is. We are making he...

If, however, you install particle detectors at each slit (i.e. you observe the particles at the slits), the interference pattern degrades, the amount of degradation increasing as you demand more and more certainty about which slit a given particle goes through. Just for clarity, in all of the diffe...

Some of my cousins who had the great advantage of University education used to tease me with arguments to prove that nothing has any existence except what we think of it. The whole creation is but a dream } all phenomena are imaginary. You create your own universe as you go along. The stronger your...

Cog, Observation refers to measurement via detection. Detection interferes with what is being detected. The measuring devices work and collect data even when the experimenter leaves the room. So consciousness is not required to "collapse" a wave function. The force that keeps your hand fr...

Cog, Observation refers to measurement via detection. Detection interferes with what is being detected. The measuring devices work and collect data even when the experimenter leaves the room. So consciousness is not required to "collapse" a wave function. The force that keeps your hand fr...

Cog, Observation refers to measurement via detection. Detection interferes with what is being detected. The measuring devices work and collect data even when the experimenter leaves the room. So consciousness is not required to "collapse" a wave function. The force that keeps your hand fr...