Evolution A blast from my past is reasonable – shock! 14 Aug 2008 As I sit here, dying slowly and loudly from a dose of gastro and probably ‘flu (Australian male: we don’t do sick well), trying to distract myself from the efforts of my lower intestines to escape to Jamaica, I came across a name I recall all too well from my… Read More
Philosophy May I self-identify? 2 Jul 2010 Eric, at the Shoulders of Giant Midgets has refused me the right to self-identify as an Agnostic, comparing me to a racist who wants not to self-identify as a racist. Nice. I suppose it’s the difference between the law and philosophy (Eric being a lawyer) that such rhetorical moves (which… Read More
Humor Vote now! 4 Nov 2008 At the time of writing the vote was evenly split four ways between A Moose, Immanuel Kant, Saul Kripke, and any Four Dimensionalist. Beat the tie now by voting. [Hat tip to Leiter] Read More
Just one of many great perhaps. Though the idea that you could account for purposefully, supernaturally, directed miraculous events with statistic analysis, designed to account for the normal occurrences within the natural universe, is kind of peculiar.