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The Meta-Fallacy: The Mother Of All Fallacies
This is an excerpt from Chapter 26 of Everything You Believe Is Wrong. I am very much interested to learn of reader's experience with this fallacy. Please let us know…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Things Which Looks Miraculous But Aren’t
Previous post. Always seek for the genuine article. HOW SPIRITUAL SUBSTANCES DO CERTAIN WONDERFUL THINGS WHICH, HOWEVER, ARE NOT TRULY MIRACLES 1 It was Avicenna's position that matter is much…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: God Can Product Effects Without Proximate Causes
Previous post. Miracles are possible. This chapter is only an introduction. In two weeks, we get to the meat of miracles. THAT GOD CAN WORK APART FROM THE ORDER IMPLANTED…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: The Ordering Among Angels
Previous post. Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges. ON THE ORDERING OF THE ANGELS AMONG THEMSELVES 1 Since bodily things are ruled by spiritual things, as we showed, and…
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Inference To An Explanation: Shapiro’s The Miracle Myth Reviewed — Part III
Read Part I, II. Did Jesus walk on water? Eyewitnesses reported he did. The event was so well remarked that people wrote of it at a time when most events…
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Inference To The Best Explanation: Shapiro’s The Miracle Myth Reviewed — Part II
Read Part I. A researcher puts you into a room. On the table is a blue ball. Somebody put it there. It could have been Alice, Bob, or Charlie. Given…
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Scientists Prove There Is Life After Death?
Headline: "British And German Scientists Prove There Is Life After Death." Thanks to reader Mark Charters for discovering the study. British and German scientists have confirmed there is some form…
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There Can Be No Consistent Atheist System Of Morality Or Ethics
The article "Jaws and the Meaning of Life" has resulted in much commentary and email. Also a lot of confusion. In that article I said "If life can be reduced…