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Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Young, Liberal and Depressed (Pt.II)

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Yesterday's post addressed the sense of hopelessness that, according to surveys, seems to be afflicting the young, particularly liberal,...
Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Young, Liberal and Depressed (Pt. I)

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The statistics are alarming. Rusty Reno writes about them in the recent First Things (Paywall): According to a recent Centers for Disease ...
Monday, March 13, 2023

Who Perpetrated the Violence on January 6th?

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Just as we were apparently not told the truth about "Russia Collusion" and the origins of Covid, neither have we been given all th...
Saturday, March 11, 2023

Policy Has Consequences

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I often remind my philosophy students that ideas have consequences in the real world. Victor Davis Hanson reminds us in his latest column t...
Friday, March 10, 2023

Turning Hume on His Head

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The skeptical philosopher David Hume, in arguing against the reasonableness of belief in miracles, famously declared that, A miracle is a ...
Thursday, March 9, 2023

Collapsing Bird Populations

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A column by Carl Zimmer in the New York Times a couple of years ago bears the alarming news that scientists studying the populations of ove...
Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Wisdom and Good Intentions

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A column from a few years ago by Dennis Prager contains a lot that's worth pondering. For instance in the column he offers the reader...
Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Mind Or Mindlessness

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One of the many strengths of the concept of intelligent design is that it's a superior explanation to Darwinian naturalism for the exist...
Monday, March 6, 2023

Moral Depravity

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The graphic below, taken from The Sun , shows the horrific losses suffered by Russia to date in their senseless war in Ukraine. Now Russian ...
Saturday, March 4, 2023

You Don't Really Have Free Will (Pt. II)

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Yesterday we looked at an argument by philosopher Stephen Cave that can essentially be stated thus: Materialism entails determinism Materi...
Friday, March 3, 2023

You Don't Really Have Free Will (Pt. I)

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Philosopher Stephen Cave wrote in The Atlantic a few years ago that the idea that human beings have free will is dying out among scientist...
Thursday, March 2, 2023

The Marvelous Brain

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James Le Fanu, a medical doctor and science journalist, describes an interesting puzzle associated with how the brain works. in a forward to...
Wednesday, March 1, 2023

The Uniqueness of Human Language

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Yesterday I did a post titled Why Humans Are Exceptional in which I noted that many researchers investigating the uniqueness of human langu...
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Why Humans Are Exceptional

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Biologist Ann Gauger holds the heretical opinion, at least it's heretical in today's cockeyed culture, that among all life forms, hu...
Monday, February 27, 2023

Five Factors

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The war in Ukraine is expected to heat up this spring as Ukraine mounts a counter-offensive against Russian forces in the eastern part of th...
Saturday, February 25, 2023

Some Consequences of the Russian War in Ukraine

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Yesterday marked the one year anniversary of Russia's brutal, inhumane invasion of Ukraine. To mark the occasion the Wall Street Journal...
Friday, February 24, 2023

Young Men Are Twice As Likely to Be Single As Are Women

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Young American men are in trouble and the reasons for it are not completely clear. The Hill has some troubling statistics , among which are ...
Thursday, February 23, 2023

Who Are You?

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One of philosophy's most fascinating puzzles is the question of personal identity. What is it about me that makes me me ? Is it my body?...
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

The Big Bang

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Philosopher of science Stephen Meyer explains in this short Prager U. video why scientists, or at least most of them, have come to believe t...
Tuesday, February 21, 2023

ChatGPT Gives Away the Game

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In a debate on the origin of life between ChatGPT and a Brazilian biologist who goes by "Otangelo" ChatGPT tries hard to avoid th...