February 2016 – Page 4 – William M. Briggs

Infinity, (Physical) Parameters, Fine Tuning, & Probability

Via Ed Feser I was led back to Alvin Plantinga's Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism, which has a lot about probability. I'll not do much of…

Culture

On The Freedom Of Religion And Satanism

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of…

Culture

Stream: Olympics Might Allow Men Pretending to be Women to Compete as Women

Today's post is at the Stream: Olympics Might Allow Men Pretending to be Women to Compete as Women. If you are a true egalitarian, if you actually believe in the…

Statistics

Iowa Caucus Open Discussion. Update: Text Fixed, Those Coin Tosses Discussed

https://twitter.com/mattstat/status/694224471712878592 That tweet was my prediction early yesterday, which I made partly relying on polls but more on the size of the crowds those two men garnered. About those polls,…

Culture

On Virtue & Holiness Signalling

Since man's deepest needs are spiritual, and man lives in society and is fallen, there is bound to be among men virtue or holiness signaling. We all have the desire,…

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Wow, (re)reading a TOFian essay makes it so blasted plain how much I miss the man. May he rest in…
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God is, and always has been, and always will be. It is your choice to exercise your free will, to…
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> If I were God, and loved rational creatures, I would make myriad rational species; He should come back in…
NLR on The If I Were God Fallacy & EvolutionJuly 29, 2025
What gets me about these kind of arguments is that they presuppose too much. People will have extensive debates about…