Why “I Believe Survivors” Is Asinine: Kavanaugh vs. Ford, Realists vs....
We’re interested here in why people believe this female Ford’s charges against male SCOTUS nominee Kavanaugh. Many progressives say Ford’s evidence, even at this late date (I’m editing this on the...
View ArticleI’ve Been Promoted!
Austin Ruse kindly sent me a note to tell me George Gilder referenced Uncertainty in the introduction to his new book, Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy....
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: Even Angels Want To Know More
Previous post. Learning is endless. And Thank God for that. THAT THE NATURAL DESIRE OF SEPARATE SUBSTANCES DOES NOT COME TO REST IN THE NATURAL KNOWLEDGE WHICH THEY HAVE OF GOD 1 However, it is...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: How God Will Be Seen
Previous post. Some good news this week! HOW GOD MAY BE SEEN IN HIS ESSENCE 1 Since it is impossible for a natural desire to be incapable of fulfillment, and since it would be so, if it were not...
View ArticleProof Cause Is In The Mind And Not In The Data
Pick something that happened. Doesn’t matter what it is, as long as it happened. Something caused this thing to happen; which is to say, something actual turned the potential (of the thing to happen)...
View Article“Doctors” Suggest Hacking Up Live Patients For Their Organs, Then Killing Them
The paper in the oh-so-prestigious New England Journal of Medicine is “Voluntary Euthanasia — Implications for Organ Donation” by Ian M. Ball, Robert Sibbald, and Robert D. Truog, a couple of docs and...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: You Need God To See God
Previous post. You can’t do everything on your own: be sure to first review last week for an understanding of what that means. THAT NO CREATED SUBSTANCE CAN, BY ITS OWN NATURAL POWER, ATTAIN THE VISION...
View ArticleGödel And The Limits of Rationality
From the conclusion of “Cantor’s Diagonalization Method” by Alexander Kharazishvili (and I’ll assume the reader has some familiarity with Gödel’s famous theorems): Tarski’s theorem leads to Gödel’s...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: You Need God To Know Anything
Previous post. We’re still on the theme that you need God to see God. Indeed, you need God to know anything. THAT THE CREATED INTELLECT NEEDS AN INFLUX OF DIVINE LIGHT IN ORDER TO SEE GOD THROUGH HIS...
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The Scientific Ethicist: Mathematics & Logic Edition
As scientism is still with us, this classic post, originally from 14 November 2014. Can I Skip College? Dear Scientific Ethicist, I am a junior in high school and will graduate in the first semester of...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: God Illumine’s Our Intellect
Previous post. Some old, and no longer common, objections to the idea God does not illumine us. ARGUMENTS BY WHICH IT SEEMS TO BE PROVED THAT GOD CANNOT BE SEEN IN HIS ESSENCE, AND THE ANSWERS TO THEM...
View ArticleScience Writer Miraculously Escapes Ravages Of Evolution
A science writer at Discover magazine has managed to escape from the clutches of evolution and lived to tell us of it. This Bridget Alex has discovered humans—not her, but humans—have evolved to...
View ArticleOf Potentiality Per Se — Guest Post by The Cranky Professor
Because of my recent article on the problem of getting consciousness out of unconscious matter, I’ve been asked to write a brief essay on my views of Aristotle’s notion of potentiality. First of all,...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: Limits Of Our Knowledge Of God
Previous post. There are limits to how well we can know God. THAT THE CREATED INTELLECT DOES NOT COMPREHEND THE DIVINE SUBSTANCE 1 However, since the type of action appropriate to any agent depends on...
View ArticleScience Is Magic & Miracles Aren’t
What is it a witch is doing when she mixes up some foul concoction, or lights a black candle, or casts a spell? I am not asking what her intent is, but by what mechanism does she hope to bring about...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: You Can’t Know All About God
Previous post. Nietzsche was wrong. Plus, except for the truly satanic, I do not think it is disputed that one cannot know all of God. A very simple lesson this week. THAT NO CREATED INTELLECT WHILE...
View ArticleNext Time Somebody Asks You “What’s the Probability of X” Say This — Crucial...
Next time somebody asks you “What’s the Probability of X”, where X is any proposition, say this: there is no such probability. It doesn’t exist. “Briggs, what’s the probability of this die coming up...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: You Can Know Some About God
Summary Against Modern Thought: Limits Of Our Knowledge Of God Previous post. Last few weeks we learned there are limits to how well we can know God. This week we learn that having an intellect means...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: Some Know More About God Than Others
Previous post. The obvious joke is that it pays to study. THAT ONE BEING IS ABLE TO SEE GOD MORE PERFECTLY THAN ANOTHER 1 Since the mode of operation results from the form which is the principle of...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: How Much You Can See Of God
Previous post. The last note is the most important. HOW THOSE WHO SEE THE DIVINE SUBSTANCE MAY SEE ALL THINGS 1 Since the vision of the divine substance is the ultimate end of every intellectual...
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