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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…
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DDP: Quack Cures For What Doesn’t Ail Us, Part I
I'm at the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness meeting in No-History City, Louisiana. Here's Part I of (an earlier draft of) the speech I gave Saturday. Consider donating $1 for every…
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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…
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The Theory of Diversity Explained
Thanks to Google we are reminded that Diversity is the dumbest idea in the West, bar none. Even communism, even atheism, makes more sense. Diversity is our weakness. Diversity, based…
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Ritchie On Causes Of Evolution
Since we've been having fun discussing evolution, and because of YOS's repeated plea to distinguish observation of evolution (he provided this link), i.e. change, between the causes of these changes,…
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On That New Genes & Intelligence Paper
Niggling complaint number one. Big name journals are printing more telegraphic papers than ever before, leaving the meat to ill-edited, hard-to-navigate "supplementary" material. It's a way to get in under…
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You Lie! Said the Geocentrist to the Catholic Scientist — Guest Post by Bob Kurland
Note: this post first appeared on Reflections of a Catholic Scientist. “People give ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or…
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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…
