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This week we've got old friends as guests: The Discovery Institute's Dr. Stephen Meyer joins to remind us that the God hypothesis gets us a lot further than alien astronauts. (Check out his excellent New York Post piece.) And then our own Dr. George Savage follows to speak about the new ominous Delta variant, and to point out that industrial policy is better left to innovators rather than bureaucrats. Rob Long is off this week, but James and Peter delve into the January 6th Commission, and rich people in space!
Music from this week's podcast: Dear God by XTC
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Dr Meyer in talking about the idea that the universe keeps being recreated over-and-0ver, repeating Big Bang and expansion, then contraction, and it starts over again... stated that additional energy would be required, and where does that come from? Aside from an option that energy could just appear and we don't know how but it doesn't matter if we don't know; his argument would only seem to be relevant if the NEXT "explosion" were to be the same size as the current one.
But what if each new universe is smaller than the one before, due to loss of energy from the previous one? If the previous universe expanded to X light-years across, and our current universe is "only" X-Y light-years across, we would have know way of knowing or measuring. Nor would it particularly matter to us eve if we could measure it.
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Tiny semiconductor tech note: FAB stands for Factory Automated Bay.
Each one currently costs between $7-$10 billion to build. Filled with etch machines that take silicon wafers to etch and create chips, and a few engineers in bunny suits to keep the mostly automated equipment running.
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This was a good, even-paced show. I appreciate Mr. Robinson asking questions from Ricochet members, it really broadened the discussion. I’m glad we added the Discovery Institute to the podcast library. Shows that go a bit off the political path into the byways that extend conservative thought - faith, the value of life, reason - are always woven into the cultural fabric and enriches the depth of knowledge needed for understanding a vision of a free and virtuous society. Wesley Smith has been excellent in the subject of medical euthanasia, an important subject that is gaining ground, for example. Thank you again for a great show and for the end contrast of the hosts on the subject of space exploration. Two divergent views, yet they find common ground in praising the power of ingenuity and imagination.
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Complexity all the way down.
Nicely put, @PeterRobinson.
Sometimes them scientists catch up with the philosophers. This point was in Leibniz somewhere.
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"Masks didn't do anything."
I completely agree with that. It makes me sick that they are shoving those things down anybody's throat at this point without any explanation. Terrible.
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