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Choose Predictive Over Parametric Every Time
Gaze and wonder at picture which heads this article, which I lifted from John Haman's nifty R package ciTools. The numbers in the plot are made up whole cloth to…
Posted inBook review Philosophy
The Why & Frequency Of Miracles: Shapiro’s The Miracle Myth Reviewed — Part IV
Read Part I, II, III. MOTIVE That miracles have supernatural origins is true by definition (see below, in PROBABILITY). Miracles, like all events, must have causes, and cause has motive…
Posted inBook review Philosophy
Inference To An Explanation: Shapiro’s The Miracle Myth Reviewed — Part III
Read Part I, II. Did Jesus walk on water? Eyewitnesses reported he did. The event was so well remarked that people wrote of it at a time when most events…
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Inference To The Best Explanation: Shapiro’s The Miracle Myth Reviewed — Part II
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…
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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…
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People Are Less Religious When Government Is Bigger
This is making the news. A guy we've seen before is up to his usual statistical shenanigans in the peer-reviewed paper "Religion as an Exchange System: The Interchangeability of God…
Posted inCulture Philosophy
What Is It You Truly Desire — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
Is it just me, or does anyone else feel this? Does anyone else perceive that there has been an upsurge in the discussion on the probability of Heaven/Hell No, not…
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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…