Physician Oaths, Then & Now
It is well worth examining the changes over time in the oaths physicians swear to, especially as we have entered an era when the term “doctor” is being applied to people whose goal is not to preserve...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: Creation Is Not A Succession
This may be proved in three ways. The first…See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. ....
View ArticleIs Truth And Evidence In Medicine Fascist? Update: Yes.
Dirty rotten fascists plying their trade? See what you think of this peer-reviewed paper by Dave Holmes in the International Journal of Evidence Based Healthcare called “Deconstructing the...
View ArticleDirect Democracy Is Not To Be Desired
The maintenance budget was voted down. That people’s first reaction to questioning democracy is anger ought to tell you a lot. This fellow @Voxday was on Twitter advocating direct over representative...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: No Body Can Create
This may be proved in three ways. The first…See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post....
View ArticleStream: #Creatorgate. Scientists Say ‘The Creator’ Designed The Human Hand,...
Today’s post is at the Stream: #Creatorgate: Scientists Say ‘The Creator’ Designed The Human Hand, Biologists Go Ape. Who are the most dogmatic, inflexible, reactionary, unforgiving, monomaniacal set...
View ArticleIt from bit: What about God? Guest Post by Bob Kurland
Editor’s note: See Kurland’s page for an extended version of this article, with references. ‘It from bit’ symbolizes the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom—at a very deep bottom,...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: Only God Can Create
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View ArticlePaper Finds Pattern In Primes: What About Randomness & Chance?
From the paper. Here’s the headline in Nature: “Peculiar pattern found in ‘random’ prime numbers“, an article which opens “Two mathematicians have found a strange pattern in prime numbers — showing...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: God Is All Mighty
This may be proved in three ways. The first…See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post....
View ArticleThe Ethics Of Precrime
This is Part II of our discussion of predicting individual crime. See Part I. The moral question is this: should an authority take action against you if an algorithm spits out a sufficiently high...
View ArticleGender Ideology Harms Children, Is Child Abuse Say Pediatricians
The American College of Pediatricians, that stalwart organization, says Gender Ideology Harms Children and is child abuse. And so say we, too. Here is their statement, along with [my notes in brackets...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: God’s Acts Aren’t Necessary
This may be proved in three ways. The first…See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post....
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: God Acts Through His Wisdom
This may be proved in three ways. The first…See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post....
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: God Is Unable To Make Square Circles
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View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: God Can Do Everything Not Logically Impossible
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View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: God Didn’t Have To Create
This may be proved in three ways. The first…See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post....
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: Some Things Exist Necessarily
This may be proved in three ways. The first…See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post....
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: Creatures Didn’t Necessarily Always Exist
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View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: Failed Arguments For The Eternity Of The World I
This may be proved in three ways. The first…See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post....
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