Read Part I. A researcher puts you into a room. On the table is a blue ball. Somebody put it there. It could have been Alice, Bob, or Charlie. Given only that […]
Inference To The Best Explanation: Shapiro’s The Miracle Myth Reviewed — Part II
Profoundly Ignorant: Shapiro’s The Miracle Myth Reviewed — Part I
There is almost nothing to like in Larry Shapiro’s The Miracle Myth: Why Belief in the Resurrection and the Supernatural is Unjustified. But, as Shapiro would be sure to agree almost nothing […]
Strobel’s The Case for Miracles Reviewed
We earlier did Strobel’s press conference. I won’t repeat details of that here, which is concerned solely with the book. Strobel sticks with the formula that brought him to the ball. He […]
Uncertainty Book Report
Springer sent me the book report Uncertainty for 2017. Since its online publication on July 01, 2016, there has been a total of 16,765 chapter downloads for your eBook on SpringerLink. The […]
GQ: Holy Bible Repetitive, Self-contradictory, Sententious, Foolish, & Ill-Intentioned
The premiere magazine of sock color, celebrity tittle tattle, and lightly disguised advertorials has released their eagerly anticipated opinion of the Holy Bible. GQ took a moment out from letting us know […]
Uncertainty: The Soul of Models, Probability & Statistics. Chapter Abstracts
This post originally appeared right before the Uncertainty did. Now that we’re 1.5 years out, it’s time for a re-post. Buy it now, but it today, and buy it again tomorrow! Chapter […]
Take Burnham’s Test To See If You’re A Progressive: Suicide of the West at 50
This classic column appeared in July 2015. Besides some editing, I would now change ‘liberal’ to ‘progressive’, which I have done in the title. I made no other change. See especially the […]
Glubb Pasha’s Experiences With American Democracy
[The image above flashed by on the interwebs, and it struck me as humorously apt, though I can’t now recall where I first saw it. If the picture has any truth it […]
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