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The If I Were God Fallacy & Evolution
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The If I Were God Fallacy & Evolution

Posted by By Briggs July 29, 2025
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Universities Need To Be Made To Lose Prestige

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AMS conference report: day 2

The convention center in New Orleans is impossibly overcrowded; the last time I saw lanes of people so thick was at the Ann Arbor Arts Fair many years ago. And…
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Prominent philosopher commits global warming fallacy

This post was supposed to be titled, "Conference Report: Day 1," because I intended to give a blow-by-blow of the American Meteorological Society meeting which started yesterday here in New…
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National Post says statisticians needed too

Canada's National Post, in a piece from a little more than a year ago, made a call for more statisticians to be involved in climate change research, much as the…
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Great graph of religious majority of each county

Graph is here.
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Statisticians global warming plea: don’t forget about us!

Who doesn't love to read about statistics and statisticians? That's a rhetorical question, my friends, so don't bother answering. But I will allude to an answer, by telling you that…
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Ralph Peters gets his stats right: the New York Times purposely misleads

I'm a veteran and haven't killed anybody in years. But if you read the New York Times you'd be right to worry that I might. The Sunday, 13 January 2008,…
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This is what happens when you allow actors to speak without a script

From the video where Mr Cruise identifies scientologists:? "You can see the look in their eyes, you know the ones who are doing it. And you know the spectators, the…
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What can we learn about global warming from poor reporting?

From today's Syndney Morning Herald comes the headline: "Global warming to impact health". First, by impact the reporter almost certainly means influence, a more accurate, but far less energetic and…
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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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