[{"id":144,"title":"String notation for capturing the entire experimental processes of chemistry","sha":"830d1439390f3f6d34a331b7983b403d","user_id":540,"state":"published","body":"A string notation which is inspired by [SMILES](http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ci00057a005) notation in chemistry can be devised for capturing entire chemistry experimental and methodological sequences and processes. Laboratory experimental procedures are often described as flowcharts, which are (directed) graphs. There will be small symbols and character sequences which will refer specifically to sampling, instrumentation, modes, and levels, as well as ways of referencing chemical glassware types. Chemical substances can be referred to by any current string format. This kind of notation will be most useful in the context of everyday laboratory work: The scientist will only be using a small group of symbols at a time and these symbols can be used in filenames and experimental metadata to be stored on a computer easily associated with the files created in the course of an experiment. Using the string notation should also dramatically decrease the amount of writing and will be easily searchable. The structure of this notation scheme is starkly different than structured vocabularies (i.e. ontologies): Most of the symbols act as pictograms rather than letters, being easy to learn, transcending language and time boundaries, allowing context. The option to include as much information as the scientist desires is a necessary feature. Extendable to other sciences.","created_at":"2015-04-11T17:32:49.694Z","updated_at":"2015-04-13T17:57:09.549Z","zenodo_id":26808,"doi":"http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16763","subject":null,"tags":["chemistry","information","mathematics","computing","science"],"vote_count":2,"view_count":1,"score":2.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":true,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null},{"id":143,"title":"Naturalness of Atheism and Supernaturalness of Religion - A Role for Theological Science","sha":"c4fcf79b9c0be4b2b24ee2baa941a221","user_id":540,"state":"published","body":"Scientific approaches (\"science\" narrowly defined as the \"sciences of nature\") metaphysically exclude divine effects as appropriate--in other words, science itself is structured to exclude divine action (pragmatically). The problem with the \"natural\" study of religion is that religion cannot be reduced to its natural causes and effects. This is precisely because divine causes and effects are the source and telos of religious life, with natural causes being more appropriately \"effects which follow from divine causes\". Science can contribute, because of its structure, studying natural phenomena associated with religion understood as natural phenomena and not as divine phenomena. Therefore, the word \"natural\" must be defined here as \"strictly scientifically natural\", suggesting that atheism is a strictly scientifically natural belief (excluding divinity not only pragmatically but substantially), whereas religion, limited to strictly scientific investigation, is \"natural\" because of its natural effects, but points to something outside of strictly natural explanations. The word \"unnaturalness\" applied to religion by [konrad szocik](/users/76d3c51025e2ea94f969165c2ad98be7) signified the opposite of only a strictly scientific \"naturalness\". A more appropriate word than \"unnaturalness\" would be \"supernaturalness\". This word is more proper to the object of study (religion) and is not contradictory to \"natural\" but suggests explanatory plausibility \"outside\" or beyond the structure of nature, suggesting reality beyond nature. Here is where theology might begin to have significant input.","created_at":"2015-04-10T18:35:46.345Z","updated_at":"2015-04-12T06:01:06.958Z","zenodo_id":26806,"doi":"http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16762","subject":null,"tags":["religion","atheism","science","philosophy","evolution","biology","morality"],"vote_count":0,"view_count":1,"score":0.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":false,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null}]