Tis Inconceivable

Quantities aren't really quantities, even if we give them names. Words define the thing, even though the thing may be unknown.

Tis inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should (without the mediation of something else which is not material) operate upon & affect other matter without mutual contact. - Sir Isaac Newton

Life Before Oxygen

In the Matty's Paradigm narrative cellular life originates in water in zero-G, before there was an atmosphere. Here's some science lingo attempting to explain super-sized prokaryotic cells in an environment with no oxygen.

April 6th

Assuming heliocentricity (Galileo’s bluff) causes the calculated distance to stars to seem greater than it is, because it’s derived from geometry with a base which is 2 astronomic units (AU) wide.

February 17th

SciPop (the atheist human origins narrative) is an inductive rationalization of the premise that the universe doesn't require a divine origin. All evidence of the supernatural has to be rationalized as something else.