Test post 8 Apr 2010 Nothing to see here. Move along. I’m testing some new features. Do not play Mornington Crescent in the comments. Administrative Philosophy Administrative
Philosophy Atheism, agnosticism and theism 5: Scope and indexing 25 Jul 201122 Jun 2018 Previous posts in this series: One, Two, Three and Four. As soon as you say in a public forum that you are agnostic, somebody will rejoin smugly, “Are you also agnostic about fairies?” as I said last post. Obviously I am not. I am also not agnostic about many claims that are undemonstrable but which… Read More
Creationism and Intelligent Design Consequences of theistic evolution 3 Jul 201022 Jun 2018 So in parts one and two I proposed a problem and solution to the reconciliation of a limited theism with science, and in particular evolution. The aim was to preserve a complete scientific explanation, with no constraints or hedging or intervention, and to see if it could be made consistent… Read More
Creationism and Intelligent Design The problem of foreknowledge 28 Jun 2010 So, following on from my previous post on theism and science, let’s consider another aspect of the problem: foreknowledge. How could God know what would occur if the universe is fundamentally, by which we mean at the quantum mechanical level, indeterminate? We know from chaos theory (and chaos is determinate,… Read More
Whitechapel? WHITECHAPEL?? From Marble Arch? In my day a move like that would have caused unrest. Since we’re clearly not at home to a well controlled elevator: Redbridge. Louis
Oh, very well since we are playing with the limited,and some would say criminal, Australian Pub rules: Totenham Hale
You fools! Don’t you see, Wilkins is trying to get you to play Mornington Crescent in order to divert you from his evil plan to take over the intertubes!
Of course! It’s like Captain Kirk causing a rogue computer to seize by getting it to compute the value of pi. A runaway Mornington Crescent would draw in ever more resources until anything inside the event horizon at Chesham would be sucked irresistibly down a Blackfriars hole.
Nah, if he was really doing that he’d insist on the Whitehead & Russell 1927 rules with the Epimenides variation.
The first rule about Mornington Crescent is that you don’t talk about…….Oh that’s something else, is it?