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Why Dembski’s Design Inference (Of Causation) Goes Wrong

Probability does not exist; therefore, nothing has a probability, so nothing can be caused by probability, though the uncertainty of statements can be had conditional on assumptions, and this probability…

Culture Philosophy

AI Is Coming For You!

The picture heading the post is of an AI machine carrying a small child to a paperclip factory. Why is it every time I read one of these evil-AI-destroys-the-world stories…

Culture Philosophy

Celebrating The Court’s Common Sense — And Lamenting Its Mistake

The OSHA opinion is here: the "Health" opinion is here. We earlier went through the Fifth Circuit quashing the OSHA mandate. The Court ruled twice yesterday. Once on the OSHA…

Philosophy

Is A Material Bearer of Consciousness Intelligible? Part 2 — Guest Post by The Cranky Professor

See Part I here. In this essay, I will summarize and expound more on the “divisible parts problem” in materialism and why the concept of the soul (or ‘mental substance’)…

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Cognitive Bayes & Rationality: Why Theoretical Explanations Charging People With Conspiracy Theories Fails

Fun quiz time! This is some data: x = c(0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1). Something caused that data to be. I know what it is,…

Philosophy Statistics

Reality-Based Probability & Statistics: Ending The Tyranny Of Parameters!

Here it is! The one, the only, the peer-reviewed (and therefore true) "Reality-Based Probability & Statistics: Solving the Evidential Crisis" (the link is to the pdf, which is 11 MB;…

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Darwinian Delusions Discussed Discursively

Let's watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noj4phMT9OE Round table with Stephen Meyer, David Berlinski, and David Gelernter. The occasion was Gelernter's review of Meyer's and Berlinski's anti-Darwin book in Claremont Review "Given up…

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Researcher In AI Responds To Criticisms

I received this thoughtful, and may I say highly accurate, email from reader EN, which I include in full below. I removed the age and name to protect EN's identity.…

Johnno on Hell On Earth: 1978’s Zombie Apocalypse ‘Dawn Of The Dead’ ReviewedOctober 31, 2024
Thank you Briggs. I'd just recently completed playing the vidya-game remake, Resident Evil 4, and you've made me ponder the…
Johnno on The Decline Of Western Christianity: Gradually Then SuddenlyOctober 31, 2024
Johnno please read the Apostle Paul’s writings in the Bible. He had nothing to do with Peter’s ministry. You sure…
mdub@peak.org on Hell On Earth: 1978’s Zombie Apocalypse ‘Dawn Of The Dead’ ReviewedOctober 31, 2024
Coincidentally (if you believe in coincidences) today's headline is Biden Bites Babies. Spooky.
C. Cotterman on Hell On Earth: 1978’s Zombie Apocalypse ‘Dawn Of The Dead’ ReviewedOctober 31, 2024
Thanks for watching this movie so I don't have to.
Paul Murphy on Hell On Earth: 1978’s Zombie Apocalypse ‘Dawn Of The Dead’ ReviewedOctober 31, 2024
Yikes - I have not seen the movie and now certainly won't .. but nice writing!