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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...

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Summary 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. ....

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Is 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...

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Direct 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...

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Summary 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....

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Stream: #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...

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It 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,...

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Summary Against Modern Thought: Only God 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....

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Paper 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...

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Summary 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....

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The 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...

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Gender 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...

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Summary 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....

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Summary 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....

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Summary Against Modern Thought: God Is Unable To Make Square Circles

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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Summary Against Modern Thought: God Can Do Everything Not Logically Impossible

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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Summary 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....

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Summary 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....

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Summary Against Modern Thought: Creatures Didn’t Necessarily Always Exist

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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Summary 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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