Raevmo
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Why did Dembski bring up Dahmer in the first place?
In the PNAS paper referenced in the thread below Dembski's quotemine fest:
| Quote | | In fact, the successful application of the insanity defense is quite rare, both in the United States and elsewhere. An example where such a defense was not successful concerned the case of Jeffrey Dahmer, who was found guilty and sentenced to 957 years in prison (where he was subsequently murdered) for the death of seventeen young men from 1978 to 1991. Dahmer was a necrophiliac, performing gross sexual acts on the dead bodies, as well as performing frontal lobotomies and boiling their skulls in acid. The rationale for the guilty verdict was that it was claimed that he knew what he was doing was wrong, as evidenced by the fact that he lied to the police about his activities. I raise this case to illustrate two points: First, the legal system assumes a capacity for individuals not only to distinguish between right and wrong, but to act according to those distinctions—that is, an integral component of individuals who have this capacity of free will from those who lack it (32). |
Coincidence?
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After much reflection I finally realized that the best way to describe the cause of the universe is: the great I AM.
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