Read Part I. We haven’t made use of our time machine in Jesus’s case. So I ask you, is it possible that if we go far enough into the future, physicists will […]
Judgments About Fact And Fiction By Confused Researchers
Good news first. The peer-reviewed “Judgments About Fact and Fiction by Children From Religious and Nonreligious Backgrounds” by Kathleen Corriveau, Eva Chen, and Paul Harris in Cognitive Science is so awful that […]
First Annual WMBriggs.com Bad Science Award!
This post is one that has been restored after the hacking. All original comments were lost. Announcement In the proud and rarely abused tradition of Honoring Important People, we present the First […]
Stephen Hawking Thinks Too Much Of Us; More
Autumn of the Modern Ages What!? You haven’t headed over to Mike Flynn’s place and read his series The Autumn of the Modern Ages? Sometimes I don’t understand you people at all. […]
Netherlands Temperature Controversy: Or, Yet Again, How Not To Do Time Series
Today, a lovely illustration of all the errors in handling time series we have been discussing for years. I’m sure that after today nobody will make these mistakes ever again. (Actually, I […]
The Deadly Sin Of Reification! Day Three
Zeno Phobia Counting day. How many ways can you skin a cat if the number of sharp versus dull knives is this and such. Simple stuff, easy to get the hang off. […]
Richard Carrier’s Argument To Show God’s Existence Unlikely Is Invalid And Unsound
In the comment section to an earlier piece of mine on Strange Notions, Richard Carrier invited me to “interact” with him through his article “Neither Life nor the Universe Appears Intelligently Designed”, […]
Visualization Of Biblical Cross References And Supposed Contradictions
Chris Harris created some pretty graphics showing Biblical cross references and other such things. Below is the main result: The bar graph that runs along the bottom represents all of the chapters […]
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