Six years ago I wrote a small, daily piece (Bayes Theorem Proves Jesus Existed And Didn’t Exist) about the use of probability in proving or disproving the existence of God. I’m against […]
Poor Richard Carrier Goes On The Offensive
DDP: Quack Cures For What Doesn’t Ail Us, Part II
I’m at the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness meeting in No-History City, Louisiana. Here’s Part II of (an earlier draft of) the speech I gave Saturday. Consider donating $1 for every typo you […]
On The Demon Possessed Doll & Little Girl
You might have seen the video of the little girl playing near a doll, a doll which twitches its head without visible promoting. The video switches views and sees the same girl […]
Headline: We Used Terrible Science to Justify Smoking Bans. Amen: We Did
When they used to tell me I would shorten my life ten years by smoking, they little knew the devotee they were wasting their puerile word upon—they little knew how trivial and […]
Bread From Something Or Nothing? Or, What’s A Miracle?
We interrupt our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles for this brief message. You’ve heard of the miracle of loaves and fishes? What’s a miracle? How do miracles happen? Read these for a […]
The Theology of Water—Is Design Intelligent? Guest Post by Bob Kurland
Physicist Bob Kurland gives us a twist on the anthropic principle. “The water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of living water, welling up into eternal life. […]
Scientists Pretend They Can Answer Why Some Are More Religious
One thing that nearly always accompanies scientism is historical cluelessness. When somebody adopts the Way Of Science, they fall spell to the idea that only that which is most recent counts, because […]
The Epistemology Of Miracles: Fulton J. Sheen Edition, Part I
Let’s you and me see if we can figure out what caused little Jimmy Engstrom to crawl back from the brink of death. I’m not a physician and I’m assuming you’re not, […]
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