Previous post. Celestial bodies don’t control our intellects or wills; though they may control our bodies. Well, the moon’s gravitation, for instance, does do something to us. THAT THE CELESTIAL BODIES ARE […]
Music, God’s Gift to Man–and to Robots? — Guest Post by Bob Kurland
Editor’s note: The original post can be seen at Kurland’s place. A few days ago my wife pointed out a news item announcing a robot that (or who?) can compose a symphony, […]
The Democratization of Science Is A Bad Thing: Or, Why Bill Nye Perving Science Was Inevitable
https://twitter.com/ecigcaffeineboy/status/856388900159447040 It’s Science! The democratization of any field of human knowledge is a bad thing; thus, the democratization of science is not something to celebrate but to mourn. By democratization I mean […]
Summary Against Modern Thought: Man Has But One Soul
See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. We are all of […]
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. Feynman: “You […]
Pascal’s Pensées, A Tour: III
Since our walk through Summa Contra Gentiles is going so well, why not let’s do the same with Pascal’s sketchbook on what we can now call Thinking Thursdays. We’ll use the Dutton […]
How Come The Leftward, Lurching Drift? Riot Update
Because I was on a secret mission yesterday, the regularly scheduled tour through Summa Contra Gentiles has been preempted. It returns next week. The Western world, particularly in these once United States, […]
We Don’t Know Anything
The Appeal to Authority is not a formal fallacy, but an “informal” one, a fancy way of admitting that arguments in the form of “Because I said so” are often valid and […]
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