Briggs

Evolution & The Big Bang Are Perfectly Consistent With Christianity (And Catholicism)

We interrupt our regularly scheduled blogcast Summary Against Modern Thought to bring you breaking news: Evolution & The Big Bang Are Perfectly Consistent With Christianity. In what should have been…

Culture Statistics

Update On Gun Crime: Downward Bound. Vote Accordingly

Elections are nearing and some of our friends are worried about guns. Measures are on ballots, votes are urged; that sort of thing. Nerves are raw, tempers are flared. Now…

Culture Philosophy

Jerry Coyne Has A Go At Pope Francis. Shoots Self In Foot

Since it's Halloween, we may as well examine the spooks, hobgoblins, and bogeymen which taunt and haunt the minds of our public undead, which is to say, our intellectuals. Now…

Statistics

Doc Asks Fellows To Keep Statistics Simple

Our friend Christos Argyropoulos (â€@ChristosArgyrop) to a popular medical site in which Stephen Reznick asks "Keep statistics simple for primary care doctors." He can't read the journals, because why? Because…

Culture Philosophy

If We Are What We Sexually Desire, How About These Curious People?

Gender theory in brief says we are what we sexually desire. It's not that we have desires, but that we are these desires. They are the core of our being.…

Philosophy Statistics

The Mysticism Of Simulations: Markov Chain Monte Carlo, Sampling, And Their Alternatives

Introit Ever heard of somebody "simulating" normal "random" or "stochastic" variables, or perhaps "drawing" from a normal or some other distribution? Such things form the backbone of many statistical methods,…

Culture Statistics

The Preponderance Of Evidence Criterion Is Absurd

Our beneficent government, through its Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights "sent a letter to colleges nationwide on April 4, 2011, mandating policy changes in the way schools handle…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: There Is No Accident In God

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. An easier…

Pk on The Perfect Conspiracy TheoryDecember 1, 2025
Wasn't it Garth that shot a man in Reno just to watch him die? Ooooh, I apologize for that one.
KGB on The Perfect Conspiracy TheoryDecember 1, 2025
It reminds me of the comedian Vince Champ, and Norm Macdonald's summation of Vince's habit of raping college students while…
JH on The Apples In A Sack Paradox: Solve It Or You Get No Pie TomorrowDecember 1, 2025
Infinity is neither a number nor something measurable.
Cloudbuster on The Perfect Conspiracy TheoryDecember 1, 2025
Once Garth Brooks killed a man to help cover up the Moon landing hoax.
Tars Tarkas on The Perfect Conspiracy TheoryDecember 1, 2025
While I am generally not one drawn to conspiracies, it's not like they are uncommon. Conspiracy is probably in the…