Briggs

Computer Models Aren’t Science — Guest Post by Robert Kurland

This piece ran originally at The American Catholic, but Kurland graciously allowed us to re-run it here. It is a topic of deep interest for us. INTRODUCTION We keep reading…

Statistics

Local & Necessary Truths In Mathematical Proofs — And Probability

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp06oGD4m00 This video requires little math beyond what used to be taught in college. Its speaker is Terry Tao, who some say is the world's best living mathematician. Its (fun---truly)…

Culture

American Psychological Association: Every Institution In America Is Born From The Blood Of White Supremacist Ideology

Tell the truth: who would you trust more to treat your young son who was just taught at school that he could be a girl if he wanted to, and…

Statistics

Catholics Can Certainly Vote For Joe Biden

Lot of discussion out in the wilds and thickets of the interwebs about whether Catholics can vote for Joe "Who Am I?" Biden. Many say Catholics cannot vote for Biden,…

Statistics

The Price of Panic: How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Pandemic into a Catastrophe — Coronavirus Update XXXV

BECOME A SUPER-SPREADER! The book has finally arrived! Spread it far, and Spread it wide; Spread it till it hurts inside. Here's the PR: For the first time in history,…

Culture

Against Papal Encyclicals — Guest Post by Richard Greenhorn

The program with papal encyclicals is the same: Every few years the windows of the Vatican open and a forty-thousand word puff of smoke is exhaled. No one quite knows…

SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: How Faith Arises

Previous post. The knowledge that is faith and its objects must come from above. This isn't just faith in God, but in all unprovable matters in which there is absolute…

Philosophy Statistics

A Twist In A Solution To Newcomb’s Paradox

Let's take a break from the insanity and wade into cool waters to start the weekend. I'll take it that you've watched this video, which purports to give a solution…

John Pate on England’s Mandatory Suicide & WomenJune 24, 2025
Relax Briggs, without the indigenous English there to referee the Hindus and Muslims will kill each other in a civil…
spetzer86 on England’s Mandatory Suicide & WomenJune 24, 2025
I think the previous poster didn't go quite far enough. "since your life is not worth living and your mere…
Rudolph Harrier on England’s Mandatory Suicide & WomenJune 24, 2025
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Michael Dowd on On The Probability Of GodJune 23, 2025
Thomas Aquinas: 'To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.'
On The Probability Of God – William M. Briggs on The Crybaby Fallacy (Which Atheists Often Use)June 23, 2025
[…] may have heard of “The Problem of Evil”. It’s always (so far as I’ve seen) stated incorrectly. The real…