Does Quantum Mechanics Speak To Theology? — Guest Post by Bob Kurland
“I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.” Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize winner for his research on quantum electrodynamics INTRODUCTION Seventy years ago when I first heard...
View ArticleProbability Is Not Frequentist, Nor Math, Nor Real, Nor Subjective
I once had a guy walk out on me at a scientific conference, full of my peers. He and I were disagreeing about the nature of probability. The exact words have escaped my memory, but the sting that set...
View ArticleNever Safety First
Here’s a headline, drawn from what you will recognize is a large fund: “Safety first when viewing the partial solar eclipse in April“. Here is another: “Safety first: Kern County Public Health hosting...
View ArticleWilliam M. Briggs on Embracing Uncertainty and Stats as a False God –...
Thanks to EMM for the donation! I was interviewed by Duncan Thorin Shields (he goes by Thorin) last week. He asked the best questions I think I’ve ever been asked. He starts off wondering if people...
View ArticleWoke Call Speaking Undesirable Truths Epistemic Violence
Silence, they say—and they do say this—is violence. So is speaking violence. At least when the words spoken express disagreement with woke local truths, which is to say, with woke falsities and...
View ArticleThe Physics Of Blessings: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification
This belongs to the realm of supposition. I do not know if it’s true, only that it seems possible. I do know that there must be a “Reenchantment of the World“, as John Carter says, or a Rectification,...
View ArticleTelekinesis: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification
We continue our series of wondering about the foundations of science. Not only is mechanistic materialism false, for the many reasons we’ll discuss, but it is a thoroughly enervating philosophy. Last...
View ArticleImpose Your Beliefs Before They Impose Theirs
Headline from MSN: “Jewish senators alarmed by Alito’s pro-Christian agenda“. Jewish Democratic senators are alarmed by conservative Justice Samuel Alito’s sympathy for basing government on Christian...
View ArticleThere Is No Culture Without Inequality: Stove 1
The works of David Stove need wider reading. I had been meaning to do a series reviewing all he wrote, but like the Class I couldn’t decide where to start or how to progress. Which are terrible...
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