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The If I Were God Fallacy & Evolution
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Universities Need To Be Made To Lose Prestige
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Peer-Reviewed Research: Men Find Looking At Nearly Naked Women Distracting
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A Week’s Vacation
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Class 58: Hypothesis Testing Is All Wrong
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Jung’s Synchronicity & Coincidence
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Class 57: The Second Best Model
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What’s Wrong With The Golf Course Parkinson’s Study
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The Unseen Bias In All Science
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Class 56: The Best Model!
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England’s Mandatory Suicide & Women
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The If I Were God Fallacy & Evolution

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Universities Need To Be Made To Lose Prestige

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Posted inCulture

Animals Are Killing Animals And We’re Doing Nothing To Stop It

Social justice warriors have opened a new front in their continuing war against Reality: animal suffering. They've noticed it, they hate it, and they will no longer abide it. (H/T…
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There Are Only Two Errors: Idealism & Materialism

There is that which is (and is not) and that which we know about that which is (and is not); i.e. there is ontology and epistemology. There are both and…
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Stream: Trump’s—No, Wait—The Republican Debate

Today's post is at the Stream: Trump's---No, Wait---The Republican Debate. Winner? No question about it, it was Trump at a canter. This was conceded even before the debate began in…
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Comment On “Origin of probabilities and their application to the multiverse”

Today, since I'm very busy, a small-ish review---mere comments, really---of "Origin of probabilities and their application to the multiverse" by Andreas Albrecht and Daniel Phillips. I got this paper via…
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Stream: December 12, 2015: The Day Science Died. #COP21

Today's post is at The Stream: "December 12, 2015: The Day Science Died. #COP21". President Hollande of France slid to the microphone, and, with great Gallic aplomb, announced December 12th,…
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Posted inPhilosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: On God’s Happiness

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. We finish…
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The Theology of Science-fiction: Some SF “Gospels”—guest post by Bob Kurland

Be sure to visit Bob's main site, Reflections of a Catholic Scientist. Note: this article originally during Lent, 2015. ...when I was not prey to the temptations of this world,…
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FiveThirtyEight Weighs In With Some Odd Affirmative Action Statistics

FiveThirtyEight ran the piece "Here's What Happens When You Ban Affirmative Action In College Admissions" that ran some dicey stats. Affirmative Action is, as all know, the practice of rewarding…
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    @Briggs, "Many say various oaths and whatnot, but looking at their behavior it’s clear most have no idea what these…

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    Wow, (re)reading a TOFian essay makes it so blasted plain how much I miss the man. May he rest in…

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    God is, and always has been, and always will be. It is your choice to exercise your free will, to…

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    What gets me about these kind of arguments is that they presuppose too much. People will have extensive debates about…

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