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   > " The Dark Side of Science " By Robert Arvay, American Thinker, Nov, 2017   
   >   Do we have inherent value ? Or are we just another species of animal?   
      
   We're programmed by nature to consume.   
   The only difference between us and the sun, is how/what we consume.   
      
     Compared to usefulness, "truthiness" doesn't matter.   
     Communism:     "wrong" but occasionally useful.   
     Capitalism:    "wrong" but occasionally useful.   
     Christianity:  "wrong" but occasionally useful.   
     All theories:  "wrong" but occasionally useful.   
      
     Empirical evidence is best; however,   
     religion is (too often) the LeastBad option.   
     And it's our fault, for not providing better options.   
      
     We suffer many such "LeastBad", horrible options.   
     For example, drug addiction makes girls unemployable;   
     so prostitution becomes the LeastBad option.   
      
     A Useful Premise: Randomness is ignorance, nothing more.   
      
       The ( four dimensional ) timescape is static, immutable;   
       the future is just as fixed as the past;   
       but only "the present" ( a sea of "here and now" events ) exists.   
      
       Quantum Correlations are acausal, like a series of dice tosses.   
       The Correlations say nothing about the next roll of the dice,   
       but they _can_ tell you that, in 100 tosses,   
       2 ( snake eyes ) happens less often than 7 ( 3 + 4, 1 + 6, etc. ).   
      
       Each toss is known to be fully causal, not random.   
       The path of a storm is known to be fully causal, however unknown.   
      
     Imagine the Earth, the Sun, the Solar system, the Milky Way,   
     Andromeda, and the hundreds of billions of galaxies we see today...   
      
     Now add a little "gravity&eXergy" ( energy that can do physical work ),   
     so it all fits in the head of a pin.   
      
     When you're done, that's what it was like, 13.8 billion years ago:   
     less entropy, more eXergy/Gravity/Density.   
     [ And, NO, it was NOT a (notional) black hole back then ]   
      
     Life consumes gravity&eXergy, same as the sun.   
     Eventually, MostAll gravity&eXergy will be consumed away, replaced with   
   entropy;   
     leaving us with a uniform heat bath that has energy, but not g   
   avity&eXergy.   
      
     Lord Kelvin, 1852, originated the idea of universal heat death;   
     the frequency of a light emitter is a natural clock/ruler,   
     and it accelerates/SpeedsUp as gravity&eXergy dies off.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)