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Why Is Rape Wrong? Science Has No Answer
Rape, right or wrong? Depends on how you define rape, you might say, Very well, define it how you like. Now answer the question: right or wrong? Here is what…
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Why I’m Unconvinced By Penrose’s Entropy/Anthropic Argument
There are a number of "constants" used in physics, such as the speed of light, the Planck constant, elementary charge and so forth. Some of these constants are bare, meaning…
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Trend Models & The Inability To Discover Cause
The plot atop this post is one of an observable, the cause of which is known to be related to a variety of physical, chemical, biological, geographical, and even sociological…
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Every Result Of Unsupervised Learning Is Correct; Or, All Learning Is Supervised
The real point I wish to make is that there is no such thing as unsupervised learning; or, stated another way, Truth exists; or, stated another way, every solution to…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Animal Souls Are Mortal
See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. Do not…
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Resolved: Women’s Suffrage Caused More Harm Than Good
If your first reaction upon reading the title was "Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!" or "Frrrpppkwiliq boahh boahh boahh!" or some variant of "%&*&^%$##!", then you have discovered the meaning of sacrilegious. Congratulations! You…
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Gallup: More Adults Identifying As LGBT(…), Which Implies Even More Will
For the purposes of full disclosure (as they say), I self-identify as a yak. Thus far I am the only known Yak-American. But once the advantages of yakitude become better…
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Orthodox Rabbi Suggests Adam & Eve ‘Black Transgender Refugees’
Trouble with words, is that if you're not diligent corruption can set in and cause a label to become garbled or meaningless. Such happened with conservative, which once meant "upholder…
