William M. Briggs

California Judge Reverses Prop 8: A Right To Marriage?

A judge in California has, as we have all heard, struck down the publicly created law which bans two-person, same-sex marriage. This was no surprise, as most expected that this…

Philosophy

Shermer Tries, And Fails, To Take Down Chopra

Aurora last night masked by clouds. Saw plenty of bats. Here is a review of another article you might like to read. Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine, tried to…

Statistics

Manzi: What Social Science Does—and Doesn’t—Know

This article is nothing but an extended link to a must-read piece in City Journal. Internet still once daily. Thanks to reader I. for suggesting this topic. If you haven't…

Culture Statistics

Everybody Has A Mental Disease: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5

I am so far Up North that I heard a radio interview with Uncle Ted Nugnet on the best kinds of arrowheads to bring down feral pigs. Internet still only…

Philosophy Statistics

Correlation and Causality: Have A Drink, Get Rich

I am down to one brief internet connection daily, found, intermittently, at a coffee shop in town. I apologize for lack of or slowness in answering questions. According to the…

Statistics

Three Cards: One Black, One Red, One Half & Half

Just a short one today, all. I'm heading further North. So far from civilization that when I was a boy, it was a cause to celebrate when a cit thirty…

Culture Philosophy

Professor Fired For Offending Friend Of Student (Then Rehired)

Whatever you do, don't diss John Stuart Mill or Jeremy Bentham at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. You might just "offend" the friend of a student, and will thus…

Statistics

New Tax To Force Citizens To Pay For Water: Prediction

Away back in March, I predicted that if Obamacare passed, we citizens would eventually foot the bill for homeopathic treatments. This evidence for this forecast was inductive, in two parts.…

Steve on The If I Were God Fallacy & EvolutionJuly 29, 2025
OK, but, for example, what denominations forget God is the First Cause? Most of the high church denominations say every…
Brad Tittle on The If I Were God Fallacy & EvolutionJuly 29, 2025
My point of view is always wrong. Everyone elses point of view is always correct in their reference frame. How…
Chaeremon on The If I Were God Fallacy & EvolutionJuly 29, 2025
evolution possesses a [divine, what else] intelligence through which instinct and subsequently [evolutionary! what else] rationality ar|wer|e invented.
Briggs on The If I Were God Fallacy & EvolutionJuly 29, 2025
All, From Owen Chadwick's The Reformation (p. 62): "At the Diet of Speyer in 1529 the minority of princes favourable…
Briggs on The If I Were God Fallacy & EvolutionJuly 29, 2025
Steve, Protesting Christians is the preferred term. And nowhere do I insist "All Protesting Christian believe X".

William M. Briggs

The If I Were God Fallacy & Evolution

Universities Need To Be Made To Lose Prestige

Only Credentialed Artists Can Appreciate This

Does Watching TV Cause Autism?

Peer-Reviewed Research: Men Find Looking At Nearly Naked Women Distracting

A Week’s Vacation

Class 58: Hypothesis Testing Is All Wrong

Vegetarians Crave Power And Success More Than Meat Eaters Do, Study Finds

Jung’s Synchronicity & Coincidence

Reader Opinion Requested: What Science Do You Find Sketchy, Exaggerated Or Wrong?

Class 57: The Second Best Model

Don’t Lose Sleep Over Research On “Climate Change” & Sleep Apnea

What’s Wrong With The Golf Course Parkinson’s Study

The Unseen Bias In All Science

The Sad End Of Radio

Let’s Play A Game Of Let’s Suppose!

Test Your IQ With These Puzzles! (Not So Easy!)

How Can You Tell If You Have ESP?

Class 56: The Best Model!

Sabine Hossenfelder’s Free Will Folly & The Deadly Sin Of Reification

England’s Mandatory Suicide & Women

The If I Were God Fallacy & Evolution

Universities Need To Be Made To Lose Prestige

California Judge Reverses Prop 8: A Right To Marriage?

Shermer Tries, And Fails, To Take Down Chopra

Manzi: What Social Science Does—and Doesn’t—Know

Everybody Has A Mental Disease: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5

Correlation and Causality: Have A Drink, Get Rich

Three Cards: One Black, One Red, One Half & Half

Professor Fired For Offending Friend Of Student (Then Rehired)

New Tax To Force Citizens To Pay For Water: Prediction

There Is No Culture Without Inequality: Stove 1

Impose Your Beliefs Before They Impose Theirs

Telekinesis: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification

The Physics Of Blessings: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification