Free Will in Covenantal Moral Theology — Guest Post by John Kelleher
I asked John to help explain to us the idea of free will in covenantal theology. This is, of course, a most difficult subject. But then, grasping free will, if we can, could never be easy. –Briggs What...
View ArticleHow Do We Know It’s A Miracle?
Listen to the podcast at YouTube, Bitchute, or Gab. Anon asks: How is Antony Flew’s problem of identifying miracles resolved? Namely the problem of determining that an act or event is (caused strictly...
View ArticleThe Many Ways The Vaccination Seat-Belt Analogy Fails
If you don’t wear your seat belt, I am at greater risk of catching coronadoom. And thus my grandmother might die, you granny killer. Is that what they mean by the vaccination-seat-belt analogy? Maybe....
View ArticleWhat Are All The Uses To Which (So-Called) Random Numbers Are Put?
Listen to the podcast at YouTube, Bitchute or Gab (to come). From Anon comes the major announcement: “Quside unveils the world’s first Randomness Processing Unit“. Quside today unveils its vision for...
View ArticleChatGPT Only Says What It Was Told To Say
We covered this before, but there are indications our All Models chant is not effective, or is not believed. Here is another attempt at showing it is true. So, all together now, let’s say it: all...
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On The Logical Probability Of The Truth Of Mathematical Theorems
I was reading through some of James Franklin’s papers on logical probability in an effort to not embarrass myself when I make my speech at the Broken Science Initiative event next weekend. It is from...
View ArticleThe Entity Labeled Yuval Noah Hariri Speaks To His Entity Followers
Let’s pick some low-hanging wisp-pated bug-minded bug-eyed bugman fruit in the form of the “entity” labeled Yuval Noah Hariri. This is not an insult! Hariri himself tells us he is an entity: I merely...
View ArticlePope Benedict’s Final Testament On How Science Cannot Destroy Faith
Pope Benedict, as all popes do, left a Spiritual Testament, a short summary of his beliefs to be read after he was dead. Benedict devoted a good portion of his Testament to science (my...
View ArticleSuper Truth-Seeing Mutant Beings Walk Among Us!
You’ve not been able to miss the Marvel universe, I’m betting, even if, like regular readers, you don’t go to the movies. The characters are nevertheless everywhere, as is the influence of the...
View ArticleWait! Don’t Hit The Off Switch! You’ll Cause An AI Holocaust!
So there’s this thing called lightning. Fire from the sky. Nobody knows why or how it happens, but every now and then…whizzz-cushhcracccck-boom! Fire from the gods explodes from the clouds! It kills...
View ArticleWhy The Many Worlds (Multiverse) Interpretation Of Quantum Mechanics Is...
UPDATE I caused great confusion by putting the word “multiverse” in the title, when there is a whole other theory called “the” multiverse. Yet I did this because Hossenfelder herself, mainly in her...
View ArticleBringing Order To Disordered Views Of Entropy
This is the second post reviewing Sabine Hossenfelder’s new book Existential Physics. First is my criticism of Many Worlds. If you are short of time, skip to the bottom today. Entropy, some say, is a...
View ArticleWhat If There Were TransRays?
Anon writes: I was having a discussion earlier about the clown world we find ourselves in, specifically “transgender” stuff, and along the way an interesting question came up. Suppose some bright spark...
View ArticleExperts: Stop Us Before We Let AI Become Aware & Kill Us All!
To reify, v: consider an abstract concept to be real. Now the Scientist was more cunning than any Expert in the field which the Dean had made. And he said to the woman, “Has the Dean indeed said, ‘You...
View ArticleWhat’s The Difference Between Explanation & Prediction?
Our main goal is to learn if or how a theory can be falsified. Sound easy? It isn’t. In order to get there, we first need to grasp what is meant by prediction and explanation. And the reason we must...
View ArticleEmergence Comes From Nowhere, Does Nothing, Goes Nowhere, But Still Becomes...
We return to reviewing Sabine Hossenfelder’s, a.k.a. Old Hoss’s, new book Existential Physics. First part (many worlds), second part (entropy). If you knew all there is to know about hydrogen alone,...
View ArticleThe Multiverse Hides The Problem It Was Supposed To Solve, And Calls It Solved
Let’s end the review of Sabine Hossenfelder’s book. We did some already: Emergence, Entropy, and Many Worlds. With this post, we’ll have covered the most interesting topics. Old Hoss, and many like...
View ArticleDo We Need Philosophy, Or Can Science Replace It?
You see the news? Woman pretending to be a man walked into a school and murdered a bunch of kids. “I know what you’re going to say. You’re going to say that that’s bad.” You’re a genius. I do say so....
View ArticleThere Is No Problem Of Old Evidence In Bayesian Probability
Rationalists, like those at Less Wrong (think Eliezer Yudkowsky and Scott Alexander), are prone to fetishsize Bayes theorem, seeing it as the key to all thought. It isn’t. Bayes is a helpful tool, and...
View ArticleHow The Laws Of Physics Lie
The title is Nancy Cartwright’s, from her book of the same name, and from an article which forms Chapter 3, “Do the Laws of Physics State the Facts?” No, she says, and we agree. I thought it well to...
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