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Miracles And Possible Explanations
From Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory: 'And I dare say the first time you saw a man raised from the dead you might think so too.' He giggled…
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Randomness & God
Reader Omer Abid points us to Serkan Zorba's article "God is Random: A New Perspective on Evolution and Creationism", which has concepts of interest to all of us (Abid asked…
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Russia’s (Soft) War With The West, Part II — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
Let us digress a moment and consider, as Svechin would, just what this word 'action' means to us in our present situation. Let us consider the peculiar nature of the…
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Headline: We Used Terrible Science to Justify Smoking Bans. Amen: We Did
When they used to tell me I would shorten my life ten years by smoking, they little knew the devotee they were wasting their puerile word upon---they little knew how…
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Induction & Essence
Suppose we observe a raven. It's black. We see a second, also black. And so on for a few dozen more. We reason, or rather we argue with ourselves, "Since…
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Gorilla Warfare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDC5wswGnaA I do not understand the human race. It has so little love for creatures with a different face. Treating animals like people is no madness or disgrace. I do…
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The Big Bang, Eternal Inflation & Many Worlds
We're back to our Edge series of ideas scientists wish more people knew about. Today is John C. Mather and the Big Bang. Mather isn't pleased with popular conceptions. What…
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Russia’s (Soft) War With The West, Part I — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
The cat is out of the bag, although most people don't realize that because most people still do not see the cat. Why? Simple. They couldn't see the open bag,…