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Summary Against Modern Thought: God Does Not Eliminate The Need For Science 2

Previous post. This is the conclusion of last week's chapter. Review! ON THE OPINION OF THOSE WHO TAKE AWAY PROPER ACTIONS FROM NATURAL THINGS 16 Moreover, as it is the…

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The Week In Doom — Amazon Bans Reality-Based Books Edition

Item Tennis great Martina Navratilova apologizes for controversial remarks on 'cheating' trans athletes Tennis legend Martina Navratilova apologized after she was criticized for recently saying in an oped that it…

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The Most Effective Advertisement You’ll Ever See

Never mind the photographic inadequacies---you will never see anything to beat this ad. If you think you've seen one better, let us know.

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Deep Dumb: A Map For Navigating Needless Panic

I found it rather comforting to learn Professor Jem Bendell, among his other achievements, has an "honors" Bachelor of Arts. He boasts of this, and therefore it must be important,…

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Orthodoxy’s War: Part II — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Beginnings We've looked at the origins of Russia's national, earthly origins. To the common Earth beneath her, both north and south. Now it is time to look more closely at…

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The False Ontology Of The Racist, Homophobe, RINO, Antisemite, Et Cetera

Christians say the believer is enjoined to "to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be…

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Growing Interest In Non-Human Rights

You might have to seek consent the next time you want to dip your skinny-dipping toe in the waters of the great Lake Erie. The lunatic denizens of Toledo, Ohio,…

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Summary Against Modern Thought: God Does Not Eliminate The Need For Science 1

Previous post. This is a very large, but not especially difficult, Chapter, so we'll bust it into two parts. ON THE OPINION OF THOSE WHO TAKE AWAY PROPER ACTIONS FROM…

hudbwu on Over-Certainty Of Polygenic ScoresJune 11, 2025
I stopped midway to write this comment. What exactly is the difference between polygenic scores and two-layer neural networks? Other…
NLR on AI & The Dilemma Of TechnologyJune 11, 2025
It's not just that the effects of technology are complex, it's that there's no guarantee that the results will fit…
Cloudbuster on AI & The Dilemma Of TechnologyJune 10, 2025
"Anyway, murder is illegal, too, yet murder is still with us. So it shouldn’t be strange that forbidding scientists to…
Mike Wooly on Cosmic Radiation, Clouds, & Global WarmingJune 10, 2025
The IPCC report that anthropogenic warming is around 0.2 degrees C per decade. That's two hundredths of a degree C…
Chaeremon on AI & The Dilemma Of TechnologyJune 10, 2025
IMHO the dot ai bubble, as direct follower of the dot com bubble, is trying to instantiate Gödel's incompleteness theorems,…