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This Week In Doom: Utopia Or Death (Baseball’s and Yours)

I For One Welcome Our New Robot Masters Computerized Umpire Calls Shots At San Rafael Pacifics Baseball Game The San Rafael Pacifics are no strangers to promotions, but a computerized…

Culture

Remnant: Archbishop Cupich Gives Up The Ghost

Today's post is at The Remnant: Archbishop Cupich Gives Up The Ghost: What do you think the Catholic Church, that great representation of Christ's body on earth, in Chicagoland is…

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Writer Says Discovery Of Extraterrestrial Life Would Be Bad News For God. God Says Nope

The danger of writing about that in which you are ignorant is that you're bound to look foolish. Let's see an example. Jeff Schweitzer, who bills himself as a scientist…

Philosophy Statistics

The Crisis Of Evidence: Why Probability And Statistics Cannot Discover Cause. New Paper

Cancer of the albondigas is horrifyingly under-diagnosed. See your doctor today and ask him if Profitizol is right for you. Today's post, in a way, is at Arxiv: The Crisis…

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Stream: Vatican Environmental Conference: A Marriage of Bad Governors and Bad Science

Today's post is at the Stream: Vatican Environmental Conference: A Marriage of Bad Governors and Bad Science. The excerpt here keeps my caveman joke which was lost somewhere downstream. Jerry…

Philosophy

Is God is a Mathematician? Guest Post by Bob Kurland

Coincidentally, Bob Kurland sent this guest post on the day of miracles, a good follow up to yesterday's post. Feynman: "Do you know calculus?" Wouk: I admitted that I didn't.…

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Bread From Something Or Nothing? Or, What’s A Miracle?

We interrupt our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles for this brief message. You've heard of the miracle of loaves and fishes? What's a miracle? How do miracles happen? Read these…

Culture

This Week In Doom: Crunchy Yummy Babies And A New Circle Of Hell

There's not much to enjoy about this week's doom, except to note that things are speeding up. Perhaps we need a pseudo-quantified measure of our acceleration into the abyss? Crunchy…

Cookie on The Charlie Kirk Killing Theories: The (Non)-Mathematics Of Conspiracy Theories 2October 3, 2025
The Mauser is an excellent snipers rifle...it put many in the grave during WW1, but it would have to have…
Michael 2 on The Main Barrier To Reproduction Is IdeasOctober 3, 2025
"What I mean is the attitude by those in the middle who convince themselves they cannot afford to reproduce." It…
Arby on How You Helped Academics Justify Sex With ChildrenOctober 2, 2025
Briggs, I think you are being trolled; the lead author's name is Deevia(nt)
Uncle Mike on Big Things Are Happening With Celebrities, The Pope & “Climate Change”!October 2, 2025
OMG. Come on, your Holiness. "Climate justice" is neither. Another meaningless woke Catholic meme: the Integrity of Creation. Man cannot…
C-Marie on Big Things Are Happening With Celebrities, The Pope & “Climate Change”!October 2, 2025
Sooo sad!! Evangelize instead!!! The closer people are to Jesus, they are much more likely to care as Jesus cares…