Skeptic Michael Shermer is pleased the number of folks with no religious affiliation is growing, and will likely continue to grow. One estimate is that “there are more than 64 million American […]
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 […]
AI Does Not Pose A Challenge To Christianity
The theology and philosophy of the Atlantic article “Is AI a Threat to Christianity?” proves that it was all downhill after the schoolmen in the sad twilight of the Middle Ages adopted […]
Summary Against Modern Thought: Can God Know Everything?
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. Don’t forget to review: […]
Don’t Use Statistics Unless You Have To
We’re finally getting it, as evinced by the responses to the article “Netherlands Temperature Controversy: Or, Yet Again, How Not To Do Time Series.” Let’s return to the Screaming Willies. Quoting myself […]
The True Meaning Of Statistical Models
This came up yesterday (again, as it does often), so I figure one more stab is in order. Because the answer isn’t simple, I had to write a lot, which means it […]
Free Will Cannot Be An Illusion
I get more than two dozen press releases and book announcements a week, a consequence of running a not-as-obscure-as-some-would-wish blog. The latest was from Gregg D. Caruso, an academic philosopher at SUNY […]
What Scientific Idea Is Ready For Retirement? Hypothesis Tests
Edge asked a whopping number of named persons which ideas are ready to be expunged from the thing that is Science. Somehow my invitation got lost in the aether, an oversight which […]
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