Math assholery 17 Feb 200824 Nov 2022 In particular, see the final panel… Cf. also here on Private Languages in philosophy Humor
Evolution Size matters 13 Jan 201213 Jan 2012 As always, click on the image to go see the entire Tony Piro goodness Read More
Evolution On the problem of the problem of evil and Darwin 15 Mar 2011 In yet another essay reprising his argument that theists can be good Darwinians (a position I concur with, incidentally), Michael Ruse makes the following comment, based on a book by Karl Giberson and Francis Collins, The Language of Science and Faith: Straight Answers to Genuine Questions: Where I do want… Read More
Evolution A casual disregard for facts 22 Aug 200818 Sep 2017 A little while back I linked to Sahotra Sarkar’s review of Steve Fuller’s Science versus Religion. Now Fuller has put up a defence at the Intelligent Design website, Uncommon Descent, under the gerrymandered image of a bacterial flagellum (if you want to know what a real flagellum would look like… Read More
I mean that I didn’t know that Plantinga was a mathematician. Damn inscrutable English language. You’d think I’d have some ability with it, considering my surname. But no.
I really like the one on private languages in philosophy, it reminds me of a wonderful anecdote that I read years ago in John Passmore’s One Hundred Years of Philosophy. I no longer own this book and am quoting from memory so please forgive me if I don’t get it exactly right. A British philosophy once asked a German college, at a conference, why there was no English translation of Heidigger’s Sein and Zeit. His German friend replied, “Because it hasn’t been translated into German yet.” (Before somebody posts to say that there are now two Enlish translation, I know this and the anecdote obviously predates 1962)
What an obvious fallacy in the 5th panel. $5 times $1 is not 50,000 cents; it’s 50,000 square cents. Next time you’re in the USA, you just try passing off square cents at the store. Or don’t. Actually, clerks sometimes call the cops when somebody tries to give them a $2 bill.
As to the answer being Jesus: I don’t know if you have these Down Under, but there’s a perennially mildly popular bumper sticker here, saying “Christ is the answer”. I don’t know why no one has made a modified one: ‘”Christ!” is the answer.’
I think becaue people value their car’s windows and finish… I want one that says: “What was the question again?” and another: “God: I don’t know and neither do you”.