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Summary Against Modern Thought: Contingency & Necessity
See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. Previous post. The First Way is in the bag. And now…
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All Men Are Mortal: A New, Award Eligible Mini Play
All Men Are Mortal SCENE: A windfarm in Absolute County, a dry patch of land out west. CAST OF CHARACTERS: BRANDON, a speechwriter for Earth Is It! RUSS, Sheriff of…
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The Letter The Lancet Wouldn’t Publish
Here's the title of a big new peer-reviewed paper in The Lancet: Effects of long-term exposure to air pollution on natural-cause mortality: an analysis of 22 European cohorts within the…
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Live From Heartland Climate Conference, Wrap Up
Profound thanks I cannot say enough about the generosity of my benefactor, who not only footed the bill for my trip, but wined and dined and rummed our Secret Society…
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Live From Heartland Climate Conference, Day Two
What happened to Day One? If I find out, you'll be the first to know. Through the extreme generosity of one of us, I'm here in Las Vegas at Heartland's…
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Evolution Under Fixed Constraints; Or, Why Random Changes Don’t Cut It
See if this analogy makes sense. A ramp onto which you loose a ball, which can roll down and fall into one of three slots. The configuration is such that…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Non-existence Of Infinite Causal Chains
See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. Previous post. Here's what was proved so far: (1) that some…
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Don’t Go To Confession; Humpty-Dumptying The English Language; More
A Time To Die The play is done! But, as you can see, you cannot see it. This being the 5th of July and a Saturday in what must be…