Contributor William Raynor sets us a task: Hi Matt, …I’d still like to see if you can write a column about what an empirical p-value really is without mentioning the word probability. […]
What Are P-Values?
Don’t Panic, But Intelligent Design Is Trivially True (Breathe, Breathe…)
This post, a follow-up to yesterday’s, originally ran 4 August 2016. What I mean by intelligent design (which is perhaps not what you mean by it) is that All There Is, along […]
The Limitations And Usefulness Of IQ
That Smarts Everybody knows that some people are smarter than others, and that some are teachable and some not. Well, some people do deny these facts, believing that if everybody started from […]
Why Is A Living Planet A Heresy?
I can’t prove that holding that the earth is alive and possesses an intellect and will is heresy, but I think it is for the following reasons. On my Stream article “Vatican […]
Crisis: Vatican Burns with Global Warming Enthusiasm (And Temperature Fiddling)
Today’s post is at Crisis. The title the editor John Vella wrote is AUs—parsecs, even—above mine. His: “Vatican Burns with Global Warming Enthusiasm“. Mine? “The Church Burns To Jump Into Global Warming”. […]
Stream: Global Warming Alarmists Plead: Save the Children By Not Having Them
Today’s post is at The Stream: Global Warming Alarmists Plead: Save the Children By Not Having Them. Global warming will, of course, doom us all. That is, if the models created by […]
God’s Periodic Table & Evolution — Guest Post by Bob Kurland
Note: This post first appeared at Reflections of the Catholic Scientist. “Those distinct substances, which concretes generally either afford, or are made up of, may, without very much inconvenience, be called the […]
Gettier Problems & Epistemic Luck Are Distractions And No Problem
Regular readers will recall I do not think so-called Gettier problems have any force in epistemology. The “problems” only crop up because people make two mistakes: forgetting the difference between ontology and […]
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