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Induction & Intellection: Excerpt From Uncertainty
Would you stick your hand into this flame? Induction is badly misunderstood. Here is an abridged and augmented excerpt (how’s that!) from Uncertainty’s Chapter 3. There is no knowledge more certain...
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Should We Be Allowed To Euthanize Jerry Coyne?
Simplest way to do it is to ask Jerry to come over behind the barn for a little “digging party.” Tell him to bring a shovel. We’ll say the hole has to be deep enough to fit all the corpses of those he...
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Why Is A Living Planet A Heresy?
I can’t prove that holding that the earth is alive and possesses an intellect and will is heresy, but I think it is for the following reasons. On my Stream article “Vatican Hosts Conference With...
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Summary Against Modern Thought: The Human Soul Is Created By God, Part III
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. A...
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The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions by David Berlinski
A modified version of this article ran 14 April 2008. There are a recent number of books seeking to either demonstrate, scientifically, that God does not exist, or to show that the love of religion is...
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Taleb’s Curious Views On Probability — Part I: Probability Does Not Exist
Ye Olde Statistician points us to an essay (a book chapter?) by our old pal Nassim Nicholas Taleb called “The Logic of Risk Taking“. Let’s examine it. You, dear reader, do not have a probability of...
View ArticleVideo: How To Think About Statistics, Figures, And New Ideas
Hard link to the video. This post ran originally on 28 February 2015. Given the quiet weekend, I postponed our Summa Contra Gentiles until next week. It is a delight to change the subject from the...
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Is There “Psychic Unity” In Mankind?
Via Nick Land comes the link to the West Hunter blog, and the article Same Old. The entry is short: We now know ( from ancient DNA) that Bushmen split off from the rest of humanity (or we from them)...
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Summary Against Modern Thought: The Human Soul Is Created By God, Part IV
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. A...
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Our Intellects Are United To Our Bodies
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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What Neural Nets Really Are: Or, Artificial Intelligence Pioneer Says Start Over
There is ancient wisdom in the phrase never believe your own press that computer scientists have laid aside in their quest to discover “artificial” “intelligence”. In the Axios article “Artificial...
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Our Intellects Survive Beyond Our Bodies
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. It...
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Angels Are Intellectual Substances
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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God Logically Implies A Block Universe Theory Of Time — Guest Post by the...
Does a timeless God logically imply a block universe theory of time? The answer is certainly yes! But before I demonstrate that a timeless (unchangeable) God implies a B-theory of time, let us...
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Each Angel Is A Separate Species
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: Angels Learn By Induction
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: Angels Are Born Knowing
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The Offence Fallacy
The Offence Fallacy is perhaps the most popular bad argument used to dismiss Truths which are uncomfortable to us moderns. It is best illustrated in a real example. Here are the salient details from...
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Angels Know Each Other
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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No, The Size of the Universe DoeS Not Prove God Doesn’t Exist
Stream: No, The Size of the Universe Doe Not Prove God Doesn’t Exist Some philosophers are claiming God doesn’t exist because the universe is big and mostly humanity-free. These academic philosophers...
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