Everyone, don't bother answering this one. George is a prolific poster if
provoked (if you don't believe me go to alt.physics.new-theories).
This 'God Test' is very much geared towards what George wants you to answer,
but not towards what *you* want to answer... the whole hypothesis does
nothing to prove the existence of God and seems to be a tired reworking of
ideas from Decartes, mixed in with misunderstandings of neurobiology,
general relativity, development and many other branches of science.
Although to be fair, noone has actually bothered to refute the whole
hypothesis point-by-point as far as I know, so may be someone on this
newsgroup could do that.
p.s. George, please don't post one of your 'kook' warnings...
"George Hammond" <ghammond at mediaone.net> wrote in message
news:398D6146.20B5881F at mediaone.net...
> Hi...
>> A scientific proof of God has recently emerged from
> Psychometry (Factor analysis) and General Relativity.
> (see my website URL at bottom of page).
> The following questions are of primary relevance
> to the scientific proof of God. If you can't answer at
> least half of them there is little hope of your being able
> to comprehend the scientific explanation of God.
> I realize there is scant hope among amateurs of scoring
> more than 40 or 50%, but you never know. I am looking for
> someone who can score at least an 80.
> How many of the following 25 questions can you
> answer correctly?
>>>> Mark your answers, and post it to the newsgroup. I will post
> a reply to the newsgroup giving you your score.
> Please mark your answers by putting an A,B,C, or D
> after the word "ANSWER" at the end of each question.
>> NOTE: A copy of this test is permanently on file at:
>>http://people.ne.mediaone.net/ghammond/GodTest.html>>> THE GOD TEST
>> 1. What is an eigenvector?
>> A. A root of a polynomial
> B. A symmetry axis
> C. A second derivative
> D. A complex number
>> ANSWER:
>>> 2. Who discovered E, N, and P in Personality Psychometry?
>> A. Louis Thurstone
> B. Charles Spearman
> C. Raymond B. Cattell
> D. Hans Eysenck
>> ANSWER:
>>> 3. In Factor Analysis, what is a "communality"?
>> A. Vector magnitude
> B. Normalization factor
> C. Common factor vector component
> D. Eigenvalue of the correlation matrix
>> ANSWER:
>>> 4. Psychometric "g" is:
>> A. A second order mental ability factor
> B. The first eigenvalue in a scree plot
> C. The standard deviation of IQ
> D. The Factor pattern coefficient
>> ANSWER:
>>> 5. In Factor Analysis, a "higher order factor" is:
>> A. An eigenvector of a communality matrix
> B. A correlation matrix rotated to Simple Structure
> C. An eigenvector of a Simple Structure oblique matrix
> D. The eigenvector of a correlation matrix with 1's in
> the diagonal.
>> ANSWER:
>>> 6. A Christoffel Symbol is:
>> A. A measure of line curvature
> B. A measure of surface curvature
> C. A covariant derivative
> D. A geodesic coordinate
>> ANSWER:
>>> 7. A horse has 4 feet because of:
>> A. Darwinian Natural Selection
> B. Euclidean geometry
> C. Genetics
> D. Survival of the Fittest
>> ANSWER:
>>> 8. If only one of the following is true, the most likely
> answer to the question: "What is God?"; would be:
>> A. A higher order Psychometric eigenvector
> B. An intergalactic force field
> C. An invisible man walking on a cloud
> D. A supreme being in outer space
>> ANSWER:
>>> 9. Which of the following statements is true:
>> A. The left brain is motor and the right sensory
> B. The front brain is motor and the back sensory
> C. The right brain is motor and the left sensory
> D. The back brain is motor and the front sensory
>> ANSWER:
>>> 10. Quadrantanopia refers to the following medical condition:
>> A. Paralysis in 3 out of the 4 limbs
> B. Blindness in one quadrant of the visual field
> C. 5:20 vision
> D. 8 out of 32 teeth missing
>> ANSWER:
>> 11. The "Secular Trend" in biology is:
>> A. The historical increase in Atheism
> B. The historical increase in human height
> C. The historical increase in Global temperature
> D. The historical increase in human population
>> ANSWER:
>>> 12. The Two Party System (Right wing vs. Left wing)
> is more likely caused by (pick one):
>> A. Blacks vs. whites
> B. Males vs. females
> C. Irish vs. English
> D. Left brain vs. Right brain
>> ANSWER:
>>> 13. The most likely physical cause of the
> conjecture of "life after death", is:
>> A. Psychological warfare
> B. The phenomena of nocturnal dreams
> C. A massive historical conspiracy
> D. The desire for revenge
>> ANSWER:
>>> 14. Including time; space has how many dimensions?:
>> A. 1
> B. 2
> C. 3
> D. 4
>> ANSWER:
>>> 15. Which scientist first described the vertebrate
> body as a 3-axis mechanical structure, and dubbed
> it "the Archetype", and was viciously persecuted
> by the Darwinians because he said the structure was
> "immune to Evolution"? (hint: he also coined the
> word Dinosaur):
>> A. Newton
> B. Sir Richard Owen
> C. Mendel
> D. Lamarck
>> ANSWER:
>>> 16. The bilateral symmetry of the human body
> is caused by?:
>> A. Evolution
> B. Natural Selection
> C. Genetics
> D. The Bilateral cleavage of the egg
>> ANSWER:
>>> 17. In primitive (mosaic) eggs, killing one cell
> in the 2-cell stage can produce:
>> A. An animal with no neck
> B. An animal with no brain
> C. An animal with no head
> D. Half of an animal
>> ANSWER:
>>> 18. Miniature "Ming Trees" are produced by:
>> A. Genetic alteration
> B. Hybridization
> C. Growth stunting
> D. Mechanical compression
>> ANSWER:
>>> 19. A cube has how many (rotational) symmetry axes:
>> A. 3
> B. 7
> C. 10
> D. 13
>> ANSWER:
>>> 20. How many gods were there in the Greco-Roman
> (Olympian) pantheon:
>> A. 3
> B. 7
> C. 10
> D. 13
>> ANSWER:
>>> 21. What is a "concubine":
>> A. A highly fortified cubical enclave traditionally
> built by Buddhist Pilgrims
> B. Acute neotenic sexual development cultivated by
> psychological exploitation for Harems
> C. A small Porcupine
> D. Afterburner of an axial flow jet engine
>> ANSWER:
>>> 22. If every cell in your brain only reached 85% of it's
> theoretical genetic size, due to the Secular Trend,
> this would most likely cause:
>> A. A 15% loss of mental speed
> B. The Flynn Effect in IQ
> C. Belief in the existence of a supreme being
> who had 100% of his brain
> D. All of the above
>> ANSWER:
>>> 23. Aboriginal tribes produce "shrunken heads" in
> order to illustrate:
>> A. Diminished burial space in the community
> B. The historical braingrowth stunting of Man which is
> the direct physical cause of God
> C. The persecution of malnutrition stunted people
> D. The aboriginal version of "customizing" cars
>> ANSWER:
>>> 24. The existence of the Secular Trend indicates
> among other things:
>> A. That there is no limit to increasing human size
> B. That in the distant past we were all midgets
> C. That there is a predetermined genetic size for
> every person and that no one has ever reached it
> D. Human size is strictly genetic
>> ANSWER:
>>> 25. The vertebrate body has 3 orthogonal skeletal axes
> because:
>> A. Space itself has 3 orthogonal structural axes
> B. Genetics
> C. Natural Selection
> D. Survival of the Fittest
>> ANSWER:
> --
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