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Sabine Hossenfelder Tries, Using Free Will, To Explain She Doesn’t Have Free Will
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Sabine Hossenfelder Tries, Using Free Will, To Explain She Doesn’t Have Free Will

Here's a video Philosopher's Cabin asked me to review. We met its author, Sabine Hossenfelder, before, when she was trying to explain how black holes enhanced Diversity, or the other…
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Big Muscles: Experts Know Best
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Big Muscles: Experts Know Best

For the closing days of summer, I am posting every chapter of the first edition of Everything You Believe Is Wrong. My enemies ravaged the first edition, inserting typos galore…
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Free Will in Covenantal Moral Theology — Guest Post by John Kelleher
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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…
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It Takes Just As Much Free Will To Punish As To Do Wrong
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It Takes Just As Much Free Will To Punish As To Do Wrong

Listen to the podcast on YouTube, Bitchute, or Gab. Thing that always cracks me up about anti-free will arguments is the contradictions. Too many of those arguments take this shape:…
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The Entity Labeled Yuval Noah Hariri Speaks To His Entity Followers
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The 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…
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David Deutsch Rediscovers The Worst Argument In The World
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David Deutsch Rediscovers The Worst Argument In The World

You can read the whole story at Jim Franklin's place of how the late and lamented David Stove held a contest for the Worst Argument In The World. In [Stove's]…
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The I Have Ascended Beyond Fallacy
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The I Have Ascended Beyond Fallacy

There is a special kind of argument you hear only from academic Experts. Non-academic non-Experts never use it; or, if they do, I've not seen any example (beyond parroting AEs).…
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The Great Grand Bluff Of Science
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The Great Grand Bluff Of Science

Everybody knows the story of the turtles. The earth is held up by four large elephants, some say, which stand on the shell of an enormous turtle. When asked what…
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