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Religions > Atheism |
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"Gregory Gadow" |
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01 Jul 2005 05:22:04 PM |
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What we don't know |
In a special collection of articles published beginning 1 July 2005,
Science Magazine and its online companion sites celebrate the journal's
125th anniversary with a look forward -- at the most compelling puzzles
and questions facing scientists today. A special, free news feature in
Science explores 125 big questions that face scientific inquiry over the
next quarter-century; accompanying the feature are several online extras
including a reader's forum on the big questions. The Signal Transduction
Knowledge Environment highlights some classic Science papers that have
influenced the study of cell signaling. The Science of Aging Knowledge
Environment looks at several important questions confronting researchers
on aging. And Science's Next Wave introduces us to four young scientists
building their careers grappling with some of the very questions that
Science has identified.
THE QUESTIONS
The Top 25
Essays by our news staff on 25 big questions facing science over the
next quarter-century.
What Is the Universe Made Of?
What is the Biological Basis of Consciousness?
Why Do Humans Have So Few Genes?
To What Extent Are Genetic Variation and Personal Health Linked?
Can the Laws of Physics Be Unified?
How Much Can Human Life Span Be Extended?
What Controls Organ Regeneration?
How Can a Skin Cell Become a Nerve Cell?
How Does a Single Somatic Cell Become a Whole Plant?
How Does Earth's Interior Work?
Are We Alone in the Universe?
How and Where Did Life on Earth Arise?
What Determines Species Diversity?
What Genetic Changes Made Us Uniquely Human?
How Are Memories Stored and Retrieved?
How Did Cooperative Behavior Evolve?
How Will Big Pictures Emerge from a Sea of Biological Data?
How Far Can We Push Chemical Self-Assembly?
What Are the Limits of Conventional Computing?
Can We Selectively Shut Off Immune Responses?
Do Deeper Principles Underlie Quantum Uncertainty and Nonlocality?
Is an Effective HIV Vaccine Feasible?
How Hot Will the Greenhouse World Be?
What Can Replace Cheap Oil -- and When?
Will Malthus Continue to Be Wrong?
So Much More to Know . . .
A roundup of 100 additional problems that should keep researchers busy
for years to come.
http://www.sciencemag.org/sciext/125th/
Let's see what religion can do to answer these questions. I'm not
holding my breath, though.
--
Gregory Gadow
techbear@serv.net
http://www.serv.net/~techbear
"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful
to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in
disbelieving;
it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe. It is
impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that
mental lying has produced in society. When man has so far corrupted and
prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional
belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the
commission of every other crime." - Thomas Paine, "The Age of Reason"
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| User: "Jim07D5" |
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| Title: Re: What we don't know |
01 Jul 2005 05:38:06 PM |
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Gregory Gadow <techbear@serv.net> said:
In a special collection of articles published beginning 1 July 2005,
Science Magazine and its online companion sites celebrate the journal's
125th anniversary with a look forward -- at the most compelling puzzles
and questions facing scientists today. A special, free news feature in
Science explores 125 big questions that face scientific inquiry over the
next quarter-century; accompanying the feature are several online extras
including a reader's forum on the big questions. The Signal Transduction
Knowledge Environment highlights some classic Science papers that have
influenced the study of cell signaling. The Science of Aging Knowledge
Environment looks at several important questions confronting researchers
on aging. And Science's Next Wave introduces us to four young scientists
building their careers grappling with some of the very questions that
Science has identified.
THE QUESTIONS
The Top 25
Essays by our news staff on 25 big questions facing science over the
next quarter-century.
What Is the Universe Made Of?
What is the Biological Basis of Consciousness?
Why Do Humans Have So Few Genes?
To What Extent Are Genetic Variation and Personal Health Linked?
Can the Laws of Physics Be Unified?
How Much Can Human Life Span Be Extended?
What Controls Organ Regeneration?
How Can a Skin Cell Become a Nerve Cell?
How Does a Single Somatic Cell Become a Whole Plant?
How Does Earth's Interior Work?
Are We Alone in the Universe?
How and Where Did Life on Earth Arise?
What Determines Species Diversity?
What Genetic Changes Made Us Uniquely Human?
How Are Memories Stored and Retrieved?
How Did Cooperative Behavior Evolve?
How Will Big Pictures Emerge from a Sea of Biological Data?
How Far Can We Push Chemical Self-Assembly?
What Are the Limits of Conventional Computing?
Can We Selectively Shut Off Immune Responses?
Do Deeper Principles Underlie Quantum Uncertainty and Nonlocality?
Is an Effective HIV Vaccine Feasible?
How Hot Will the Greenhouse World Be?
What Can Replace Cheap Oil -- and When?
Will Malthus Continue to Be Wrong?
So Much More to Know . . .
A roundup of 100 additional problems that should keep researchers busy
for years to come.
http://www.sciencemag.org/sciext/125th/
Let's see what religion can do to answer these questions. I'm not
holding my breath, though.
It would also be interesting to know which of these questions was not
even positable in the best current science of 25, or 50, or 100, or
300, or 600, or 1000 years ago. (Arguably science began with Thales,
or Copernicus, or Bacon, or....).
Jim07D5
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| User: "Ben Goren" |
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| Title: Re: What we don't know |
01 Jul 2005 06:31:19 PM |
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Jim07D5 wrote:
Gregory Gadow <techbear@serv.net> said:
http://www.sciencemag.org/sciext/125th/
Let's see what religion can do to answer these questions. I'm
not holding my breath, though.
It would also be interesting to know which of these questions
was not even positable in the best current science of 25, or 50,
or 100, or 300, or 600, or 1000 years ago. (Arguably science
began with Thales, or Copernicus, or Bacon, or....).
Yup. You've exactly nai--hold on a sec. My cat's trying to get my
attention.
Oh, all /right,/ Joanie. What is it? You want to play the ESP game
again? Is that it? Oh, okay.
Hmmm...wet naked man talking incoherently. Yeah, yeah, I know I
haven't yet taken my morning shower. What's your point?
Ow! What was that for? Oh, okay. I'll try harder.
Aaahhh...dunking a hunk of metal in water. Yes, the trumpets are a
week overdue for cleani--hey! That one /hurt!/
What, /still/ more? Fine. You're the boss.
Ummmmmmm ... a small city ... Pacific Northwest ... California ...
Humboldt County....
I'm sorry honey. That's all I'm getting.
Well, I never! She just stalked off in a huff. These cats, think
they know everything.
Now, where was I...?
Cheers,
b&
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BAAWA Knight of Blasphemy
God can never prove that this sentence is true.
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