Comments on: LA Packs The House For Science http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/04/27/la-packs-the-house-for-science/ A blog about life, past and future. Written by DISCOVER contributing editor and columnist Carl Zimmer. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:00:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: KC Cole http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/04/27/la-packs-the-house-for-science/comment-page-1/#comment-17625 KC Cole Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:39:57 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/04/27/la-packs-the-house-for-science/#comment-17625 I couldn't have summed it up better myself..... your writeup was sent to me by two people, by the way.... I couldn’t have summed it up better myself….. your writeup was sent to me by two people, by the way….

]]> By: Bill Lattanzi http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/04/27/la-packs-the-house-for-science/comment-page-1/#comment-17608 Bill Lattanzi Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:30:33 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/04/27/la-packs-the-house-for-science/#comment-17608 No one may have ever called you a curmudgeon, but isn't pretty to think so? There you go again, you science thinker, you, insisting on the facts getting in the way of a good story :) No one may have ever called you a curmudgeon, but isn’t pretty to think so? There you go again, you science thinker, you, insisting on the facts getting in the way of a good story :)

]]> By: Rick Ryals http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/04/27/la-packs-the-house-for-science/comment-page-1/#comment-17601 Rick Ryals Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:01:02 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/04/27/la-packs-the-house-for-science/#comment-17601 Is this what the person from the audience was referring to in terms of the compatibility of the multiverse and the anthropic principle ? http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/06/02/a-new-step-in-evolution/ <i>And their new paper makes clear that just because the odds of such a significant change are incredibly rare doesn’t mean that it can’t happen. </i> <i>Natural selection, in fact, ensures that sometimes it does.</i> The anthropic principle guarantees that it will happen once this universe is selected from the multiverse. IOW, the anthropic principle insures that natural selection insures that "sometimes it does", and the multiverse has nothing to do with it, unless they are trying to apply anthropic selection to the "odds" the way that Richard Dawkins misuses it, which is the same way that Eugine Koonin misuses it. http://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0701023 http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/04/leonard-sussking-carl-zimmer-and-.html <i>What exactly is “real science”? Old, tired, boring and safe, according to Leonard Susskind</i> If Lenny only practiced what he preaches... he'd be an IDist!... lol Is this what the person from the audience was referring to in terms of the compatibility of the multiverse and the anthropic principle ?

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/06/02/a-new-step-in-evolution/
And their new paper makes clear that just because the odds of such a significant change are incredibly rare doesn’t mean that it can’t happen.

Natural selection, in fact, ensures that sometimes it does.

The anthropic principle guarantees that it will happen once this universe is selected from the multiverse. IOW, the anthropic principle insures that natural selection insures that “sometimes it does”, and the multiverse has nothing to do with it, unless they are trying to apply anthropic selection to the “odds” the way that Richard Dawkins misuses it, which is the same way that Eugine Koonin misuses it.

http://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0701023

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/04/leonard-sussking-carl-zimmer-and-.html
What exactly is “real science”? Old, tired, boring and safe, according to Leonard Susskind

If Lenny only practiced what he preaches… he’d be an IDist!… lol

]]> By: Jennifer Truempler http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/04/27/la-packs-the-house-for-science/comment-page-1/#comment-17599 Jennifer Truempler Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:23:16 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/04/27/la-packs-the-house-for-science/#comment-17599 I have to agree with you about the LA Times blog--I learned much more about the panel discussion from your short entry. Sounds like it was an interesting discussion session, and I'm sorry I missed it. I have to agree with you about the LA Times blog–I learned much more about the panel discussion from your short entry. Sounds like it was an interesting discussion session, and I’m sorry I missed it.

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