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On Why Liars Lie
September 15, 2015 Intelligent Design
In a previous post, I exposed yet another of eigenstate’s outrageous lies. Then I asked: The real question is what motivates him to engage in such insane denials? I have to admit that I am utterly flummoxed by it. He knows he is lying. I know he is lying. Everyone else who reads his comment […]
Learned Hand Finally Gets There
September 14, 2015 Intelligent Design
Who says internet combox discussions are never fruitful? After almost two weeks of back and forth, Learned Hand has finally come around on the infallibility of the law of identity. LH before: I cannot therefore be logically, absolutely certain of anything—not even that A=A. LH today: Defining A as equal to A is defining A […]
The self-falsifying error of dismissive, hyperskeptical certitude
September 14, 2015 Darwinist rhetorical tactics, Logic and First Principles of right reason, Selective Hyperskepticism
It seems that Seversky has fallen into an exemplary case of error in the nothing certain thread that needs to be headlined and corrected for the record: Sev, 13: >>What I see in the writings of the likes of kf, BA and BA77 is the same craving for certainty [in context, held by murderous dictators […]
GK Chesterton on Arguing with Learned Hand, eigenstate and Popperian
September 14, 2015 Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment. He is not hampered by a sense of humor or by charity, or by the […]
New giant virus (proteins don’t resemble predecessor)
September 14, 2015 Posted by News under Cell biology, Intelligent Design, News
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From ScienceDaily,: The virus takes the form of a roughly spherical particle, approximately 0.6 μm long, containing a genome of approximately 650,000 base pairs coding for more than 500 proteins. Most of these proteins bear no resemblance to those of its Siberian predecessor, Pithovirus sibericum. Furthermore, unlike Pithovirus, which only requires the cytoplasmic resources of […]
eigenstate Gives Us a Lesson in Evolutionary Ethics
September 14, 2015 Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design
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eigenstate says that under “evolutionary eithcs,” we are ethically obligated to do whatever is “adaptationally advantageous.” Which led to this exchange: Barry: “If our environment somehow changed so that torturing infants for pleasure became adaptationally advantageous, would we then have an ethical obligation to torture infants for pleasure?” eigenstate: ” yes” Madness. In that same thread eigenstate […]
Viewer warning! on the Naledi find
September 14, 2015 Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, News, science education
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First, the sensible stuff: From BioLogic Institute’s Ann Gauger Homo naledi as Spin Detector: In reading the coverage of Homo naledi, as the species is called now, it seems clear to me that the spin put on the actual bones depends on the assumptions of the writers. What do I mean? Bones can only tell […]
The Fallacy of Question-Begging Definition
September 14, 2015 Posted by kairosfocus under Darwinist rhetorical tactics, Logic and First Principles of right reason, Science, worldview issues/foundations and society, Selective Hyperskepticism
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One of the issues that has come up in recent days is the fallacious misuse of definitions that beg questions at stake. Accordingly, I think it advisable to headline a comment from the Nihilism thread and give an example from origins issues: ___ KF, 262: >>Aleta (attn BA, LH, ES & WJM): While a lot […] |
mos of the top posts at UD right now are babbling whiny attempts to refute three or four commenters.
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