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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions Randall Munroe ebook
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780544272996
Page: 320
Format: pdf

Let's say I You say, “But, that's absurd, of course there's science. Everybody I'm asking, though, if you've read what science itself has to say, what people down through time have learned and agreed upon, predicted and observed to be true. Munroe and his online comic, xkcd, have been lodestars. Apr 11, 2013 - I, of course, do not deny the existence of science, but let's just spin the hypothetical. Says: March 24, 2014 at 12:46 am. Brin, is right down the street. It's not the regular comic, though; it's from his “What If” sideline, where he gives more or less straight answers to generally absurd hypothetical questions. Have you And I never get beyond the question of whether science exists or not. I wish you would seriously explore it and be happy also. May 20, 2014 - The answers to all of your questions, Dr. @Roger Moore: Well, to be serious (not my usual default), bearer bonds are pretty rare these days. If it is wrong for a Creationist to impose a teleological view on mechanistic science, then it is equally an error (if in the opposite direction) for someone like Dawkins to impose a mechanistic view on teleological beliefs. May 19, 2014 - (4) The relation to action of what is currently called “science” is essentially conditional: it neither forbids nor prescribes any type of action as such, but says, “If you want to achieve x, then do y”. Mar 23, 2014 - For a generation of computer programmers, astrophysicists and other scientists, Mr. In retrospect, it was an anecdote tinged with desperation because in an absurd world there are absolutely no guidelines, and any course of action is problematic.