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Stay tuned…post coming soon at The Stream
A big one. Update Due to my causing the editors extra work (it's a longish piece), it appears it might not go up until late this evening or early tomorrow.…
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The Theology of Water—Is Design Intelligent? Guest Post by Bob Kurland
Physicist Bob Kurland gives us a twist on the anthropic principle. "The water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of living water, welling up into…
Posted inPhilosophy SAMT
Summary Against Modern Thought: God Wills The Future
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. This chapter…
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This Week In Doom: Rejecting Sex With HIV+ Is Now Discrimination
This headline appeared in a paper with enormous circulation: "HIV positive man who was rejected on Grindr after bravely revealing his condition gives witty response that sweeps Facebook." Grindr is…
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Failed Climate Scientists Call For RICO Investigation To Stop Criticisms, And Non-Scientist Claims Scientists Will Cause Next Genocide
If I ever meet NCAR's Keven Trenberth (again), I'm going to punch him in the mouth. Same thing if I cross paths with Rutgers' Alan Robock. Pow! Right in the…
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Who Wants Viewpoint Diversity In The Academy?
Reader Gary Boden sent over a link to Heterodox Academy. Some friends of ours are part of this, like Judith Curry and Scott Lilienfeld. In their words: We are social…
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Chesterton On Polls
I was led by Dale Ahlquist, president of the American Chesterton Society, to an article by Chesterton on the kinds of statistics used in polls. Here is an excerpt (the…
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The Philosophy Of Uncertainty: An Introduction. Complete Preface. Update
Le livre, he is done! I yesterday sent a proposal to a philosophy editor at Cambridge. Not enough equations or pictures in it to pique the interest of the statistics…