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Summary Against Modern Thought: Evil is Not Intended
Previous post. Evil is not intended, but it often results because of lack of knowledge of The Good or the will is not directed toward The Good. That evil in…
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Why Not Only Us? Men Speak, Animals Make Noise
A review of the book Why Only Us: Language and Evolution by Robert Berwick and Noam Chomsky. Everybody knows, or used to know, that only men speak. Animals make noise,…
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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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The Genetic Fallacy: He Works For An Oil Company!
I'm on the road for the next several days and won't always have access to the Internet. So I'm reposting a series of classic fallacies. Regular service to resume early…
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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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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…
