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Royal Baby’s Incorrect “Gender”
I did a poor job explaining why the leading academic theory on "gender" collapses of its own weightlessness. The theory insists that people "choose" (or should be allowed to choose)…
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There Is No Such Thing As Unconditional Probability: Update
I am awarding a Briggs Internet Prize---the coveted BIP---for anybody who can demonstrate even one instance of a probability which is unconditional on any evidence whatsoever. The prize will not…
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California Students To Choose Genders, Bathrooms: Update
A leading academic theory is that "gender" is a construct, where by "gender" the academic means sexual behavior and by "construct" she means something we make up, a decision. If…
Posted inPhilosophy
On The Probability God Exists
In order not to make the reader sick with jealously, I will not tell him that I sit on the porch on a bright summer morning mere steps away from…
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Something From Nothing: Or, A Heavenly Fish Sandwich
So I was sitting on the porch by the lake reading a piece by Trent Horn on the first premise of the kalam cosmological argument for the existence of God,…
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From Claude Shannon To Demonic Mosquitoes To Bluegill
Here's some information for you: this is a statue of Claude Shannon, tucked in-between two unfrequented buildings in tiny Gaylord, Michigan (most buildings are unfrequented here). Shannon's the guy who…
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Good Gnus—PG Wodehouse Hunting Poem
A northern Michigan summer! Time to venture forth out onto the waters and kill something to eat. I'm thinking pike. Wodehouse had gnus in mind. When cares attack and life…
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Happy 50th Bill & Marilyn!
We made rather merry at the party yesterday. So much so that there might not be any fresh posts for days.