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Science Corner: What Even Is Real?!?

May 23, 2018 by Andy Walsh No Comments

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Can science help with our uncertainty about scientific questions?

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Filed Under: Science and Faith Tagged With: science, science corner, uncertainty

Science Corner: It’s in the Cards

January 14, 2015 by Andy Walsh No Comments

The game of heads-up limit Texas Hold ’em poker has effectively been solved. As I understand it, solving a game means identifying the best move to make in any given situation. Other games, like tic-tac-toe and checkers, have been solved in the past, but this result is significant because it is the first solved game […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Science Tagged With: future, poker, science corner, uncertainty

Science in Review: Quantum Foam Fluctuation, Roll for Initiative

April 30, 2014 by Andy Walsh No Comments

I’ve always been sympathetic to Einstein’s famous assertion “God doesn’t play dice with the world.” In my public health training, I regularly and fruitfully used statistics and probability theory. Ideologically, they struck me as concessions to pragmatism. Human beings are too complex, their measurable attributes innumerable; we cannot know enough about them to accurately describe […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Science and Faith Tagged With: quantum physics, randomness, science in review, uncertainty

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