The following post may provoke a response from the censers(sic!), and a lockdown which is far from useless, though perhaps needless, may be imposed here, after which you shall be glad never to hear from me again.
What do you think of what was orated by the Lord Hannan of Kingsclere?
The story about the people of Ohio is quite entertaining..
Continue readingIt was an interesting discussion about the place of Luther in European and in particular German history, and his continuing influence that prompted me to write, for whilst the conversation was informative, offering perhaps a different perspective than you would be given by an O-level syllabus, there appeared to be a contradiction in it. You may want to listen, or watch for yourself, to judge the matter more carefully
Martin Luther: The Man Who Changed The World from The Rest is History where Tom and Dominic (who?) talk about the man whom we cannot forget.
Continue readingThe International Lymphoedema Framework have announced their 12th conference to be held at Niagara Falls in 2025. The conference which is co-hosted by the Canadian Lymphedema Framework and supported by the International Lipodema Association should prove to be as interesting, informative, intense and instructive as the ever.
Congratulations to those who were recognised today by the Rosalind Franklin Society (LinkedIn and FB) among whom you will find the Professor Christine Moffatt
RFS Awards in Science Recognize Outstanding Contributions from Women and Minorities
https://www.rosalindfranklinsociety.org/rfs-awards-in-science-2023
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It is a wonder indeed. How complex is life! 160 billiard pairs in a single molecule. It is right that they wonder what the functions of all of its parts are. Having measured its length, the really hard work now comes when trying to identify the several different parts, and assessing their possible single or multiple functions. As they have said ‘[m]any plants have big genomes and scientists want to find out why’. One can but wish them success.
The BBC reported as much in their article World record broken for living thing with most DNA.
Continue readingIt was a fake image that prompted the concern:
Chris Gale and Barnard Van Loggernberg had commented on the image. Barnard in sublime praise of the God who made all things, and Chris with a reference to the erroneous understanding promulgated by our contemporary propogandists of atheist thought that “A belief is based on what you have been told and what you personally hold as true. A belief doesn’t need to be supported with factual evidence in order for it to exist and be powerful. In short, beliefs are not facts.”
Continue readingIf you have have not read Schrödinger, read this first. As this is a disturbing and not an easy read, perhaps the BBC would be a little easier to grasp.
Schrödinger, The Elusive Intellectual Cat – An Oration
If you prefer to listen than read, you may do so here.
When you speak with a man like Professor Angus George Dalgleish you quickly recognise the incisive mind of the man. If you wish to disagree with him you really must be sure of your ground. He is an eminent scientist, being a fellow of organisations of which an ordinary mortals like Coco could not even aspire to associateship, let alone membership.
So in this interview Death of Science where he speaks of the death of science if we disagree with him, we must be careful in what we say. It is patently true that science can have no forbidden views. All views are permitted and must be examined until they can be irrefragably shown to be false. Newton’s thoughts and propositions about motion were once thought to be so certain that the became the Laws of Motion. No-one had succeeded in devising any test that could disprove them. They stood firm for two hundred years, until someone noticed that they seemed to break down at relatively high velocities. It took an Einstein to find the correction to Newton’s Laws and, as yet, no-one has dared to elevate the theory of relativity to the status of Law. We are wary that it too may suffer the same fate as Newton’s Laws.
Continue readingIt was a recommendation of and a listening to Professor Angus Dalgleish, physician, oncologist, pathologist, medical researcher and author that prompted the thoughts.
The Professor makes a good point. There is a lack of consensus in many areas of science, and perhaps especially true in the context of cosmological and the design of bio-chemical machines, where radically contrary views may be held by main-stream scientists, but who rise up together when anything approaching a Biblical perspective on the known facts is introduced to silence the proponents of what is an alternative and more credible explanation than their own. Even Coco’s use of the word design in the preceding sentence will provoke the ire of such opponents of the scientific method to which they pretend to adhere but abandon when it does not suit their ideology or philosophy.
Continue readingYou may have heard the expression: Rubbish in, rubbish out.
Forty years ago Coco used a early version of SuperCalc (SC2 – a spreadsheet like Excel for those who cannot remember) for the preparation of monthly reports under the operating system C/PM. It was ‘cutting’ edge at the time using simple lists of transactions which were converted into a report showing monthly, cumulative and projected figures against a flexible budget. Coco shall not go into the technical details of this. It was not many months before Coco noticed that the report sometimes did not balance.
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