Do you believe in God? Also, please answer one of the following questions:?

Question

a. Do you think that universal field theory will be resolved through a further application of the Ricci curvature tensor? Why or why not?

b. Will it be possible to create an evolutionary artificial intelligence through an approach similar to cognitivism or is an entirely different approach necessary in your opinion? Explain.

c. Consider the Drake equation. Please provide a set of parameter estimates to be used and justify each.

d. Do you subscribe to Schenkerian analysis? Whether you do or don't, is your decision based fundamentally on your belief about the relationship between the long-range structure of music and rhythym or is it due to something else? Explain.

e. What's with all the prithees?

I was inspired by jasong25's (no offense to him at all) question: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AqydJDPlQkyc.W6rtD6BUE_d7BR.?qid=20070730110530AAskLrU

Answer the question itself if you want but I'm really just curious what kind of responses I'll get.

Hey, some good (and good-natured) responses so far. My point was really to show how utterly ridiculous it is to associate a (dis)belief in God and what is arbitrarily assigned as "intelligence" by social norms.

BTW, the questions have to do with:

a) astrophysics/cosmology

b) computer science (specifically, artificial intelligence)

c) the search for extraterrestrial life (and the probability of its existence)

d) music analysis

e) just a reference to Foxtrot, the comic strip. Peter (the older son) is writing an essay on Macbeth and dismisses three (relevant) questions:

1. What is the significance of the 'moving' forest?
2. What of Lady Macbeth's forever-bloodied hands?
3. Is Shakespeare using imagery to symbolize nature?

before asking the question above.

Answer 1

a) No, it is better described by string theory
b) Yes, but not until several large evolutions of computer technology
c) That is changing daily with the discovery of new planets, but the most important factor of livability will not be known until better measurements can be made.
d) No idea.

Answer 2

a. Huh?

b. Cognitivism has taken leaps and bounds in the past decade. Continued research into genetic programming (particularly in the field of pattern recognition) has gone a long way towards making cognitivism a reality. There are alternatives, of course. Particle Swarm Optimization is not concerned with cognitivism, but is also solving many types of NP-hard problems.

c. Huh?

d. Huh?

e. Huh?

Answer 3

I'm not playing your game,
i find it interesting that you post a link to basically the same question, but with a IQ tester. but do not put any link to info about your questions,
all this tells me is you think your pretty smart, and that you want to rub it in to people faces,
your a bully, people click on to your question, and are scared into silence by the big words and foreign concepts you ask about. is that really the purpose of YA or the R&S boards.
i could post pages of indepth tech schematics that would make your head spin, doesen't mean i'm smarter then you, simply means i'v had different life experances.
so on behalf of every one on YA were very sorry were not in the same collge cources as you, so were not emidantly famillyar with what your asking.
and i'll tell you what i told the other kid, faith deals with the heart and soul, intllegence deals with the mind
are there valid intelctual agruments that could keep some one from having faith in something, sure but it's our hearts that motivate us to keep looking for answer, and not settle for unaswered, or poorly answered questions,

ps i started working on my respons before you updted, i'm leavig it bc i feel it still has some good points and things for you to think about, but i'v got some more respect for you, so consider this a duel with blunted swords :)

Answer 4

I don't believe in an individual being named God. I believe in a universal power which makes up everything and everyone.

I won't pretend to be an expert in mathematics or computer science. The only thing I can come close to answering is e. Prithee is an old English contraction of "I pray thee" , which makes it generally mean please or pretty please. If there's some highfaluting mathematical reference to it, I'm not aware of it.

Answer 5

I'm not sure which non-Euclidean geometry is needed, but I'd be very curious to see any new developments in trying to solve field theory for delta T < 0.

Answer 6

I'm agnostic so I believe in the possibility of a god, but I also believe it's possible that there ISN'T a god.

Answer 7

All of the babble is best answered with one question and one answer:

Q. Do I believe any gods exist?

A. No.

Answer 8

I belive in God and all of his glory but i do not i dont get the other questions they confuse me!

Answer 9

It is not by man's wisdom we know God but by his revelation.