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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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The Remnant: Ever Wonder Why Gmarriage Is Only Legal in Post Christian Nations?

Today's post is at The Remnant: "Ever Wonder Why Gmarriage Is Only Legal in Post Christian Nations?" Have you noticed that gmarriage---government-defined marriage---is legal only in post-Christian nations? Why this…

Johnno on Musk Doges Deaths: Researchers Say USAID Absence Kills Kills Kills!June 29, 2026
Complaining about deaths is bigoted micro-aggressive language targeted at minorities of peoplehood that believe in and worship Death as a…
Johnno on The Intellectual Capacity Of Women by David StoveJune 29, 2026
"Everything in woman is a riddle, and everything in woman hath one answer - it is called pregnancy." - Friedrich…
Cary D Cotterman on Musk Doges Deaths: Researchers Say USAID Absence Kills Kills Kills!June 29, 2026
People in the Western World, and parts of east Asia, figured out how to thrive. The Third World must figure…
Brian ( bulaoren) on Musk Doges Deaths: Researchers Say USAID Absence Kills Kills Kills!June 29, 2026
If I had a hammer... I am now overcome with guilt about all the windshield squeegee men I've waved off.…
Briggs on The Intellectual Capacity Of Women by David StoveJune 28, 2026
Erik, I think they did that hall walking scene just to show his magnificent head of hair wafting in the…