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On The Kaya Identity
A reader asked about my take on the Kaya wars that are flaming at Anthony Watts's place. Here is the form of the Kaya Identity, which is to say, the…
Posted inPhilosophy
Philosophic Issues in Cosmology: II. Relativistic Theories On Universe Origin—Guest Post by Bob Kurland
Bob Kurland is a retired, cranky, old physicist, and convert to Catholicism. He shows that there is no contradiction between what science tells us about the world and our Catholic…
Posted inPhilosophy SAMT
Summary Against Modern Thought: The Last Movement
See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. Previous post. Recall that the First Way has already been done.…
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Readers: Pick Your Theme Song
It's summer and everybody's on vacation, except, it seems, Yours Truly. And whoever is left is over at Anthony's place fighting the Kaya wars. (My side? Take a look at…
Posted inPhilosophy
Disbelief In Free Will Causes Disbelief In Free Will
Never was the West's wholesale flight from philosophy and a classic education more evident than in the title of this peer-reviewed paper: Prosocial Benefits of Feeling Free: Disbelief in Free…
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Rename “Global Warming” Contest
Andrew Jackson (â€@yodacomplex) reminded me of the screwy history of the thing that was Global Warming. The phrase has undergone many revisions, examples of which are: Climate Change, Climate Cataclysm,…
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On Truly Random Numbers
Party trick for you. I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 4. Can you guess it? Two? Nope. Three? Nope. And not one or four either. I know what…
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Your Big Government Update
Government Is Driving Inequality One thing my lefty friends are right about is the growing number of rich. The distributions of income and of wealth are moving ever farther from…
