Philosophy – Page 63 – William M. Briggs

Summary Against Modern Thought: God’s Acts Aren’t Necessary

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. Series was…

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Gender Ideology Harms Children, Is Child Abuse Say Pediatricians

The American College of Pediatricians, that stalwart organization, says Gender Ideology Harms Children and is child abuse. And so say we, too. Here is their statement, along with [my notes…

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The Ethics Of Precrime

This is Part II of our discussion of predicting individual crime. See Part I. The moral question is this: should an authority take action against you if an algorithm spits…

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Summary Against Modern Thought: God Is All Mighty

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. Some fleshing…

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Paper Finds Pattern In Primes: What About Randomness & Chance?

Here's the headline in Nature: "Peculiar pattern found in 'random' prime numbers", an article which opens "Two mathematicians have found a strange pattern in prime numbers -- showing that the…

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Summary Against Modern Thought: Only God Can Create

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've proved…

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It from bit: What about God? Guest Post by Bob Kurland

Editor's note: See Kurland's page for an extended version of this article, with references. 'It from bit' symbolizes the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom---at…

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Stream: #Creatorgate. Scientists Say ‘The Creator’ Designed The Human Hand, Biologists Go Ape.

Today's post is at the Stream: #Creatorgate: Scientists Say 'The Creator' Designed The Human Hand, Biologists Go Ape. Who are the most dogmatic, inflexible, reactionary, unforgiving, monomaniacal set of people…

Cary D Cotterman on Climate Change Increases Risk of Even Slower World Cup Games!June 10, 2026
82.5 degrees Fahrenheit isn't even "hot", let alone "extremely hot". American football is played in summer, by guys wearing thick…
Tars Tarkas on Climate Change Increases Risk of Even Slower World Cup Games!June 10, 2026
I seriously doubt 82.4 degrees hampers the action in any event. These are young male world class athletes in the…
spetzer86 on Climate Change Increases Risk of Even Slower World Cup Games!June 10, 2026
If they wanted temperatures below 82F in the American mid-West they should've scheduled for Nov-Feb. Imagine a Twin Cities game…
Tony Cooke on Climate Change Increases Risk of Even Slower World Cup Games!June 10, 2026
Maybe they should move all the games to the tropics. That would slow things down to the point of such…
Briggs on The Ultimate IQ Test: Guessing the Author’s Mind and Escaping the Infinity of AnswersJune 10, 2026
JH, You are very rare. A lot of teachers are strict. Of course, we are all constrained by Nature's Author…