empiricism

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• The Utility and Justice of TARP

  
  Will Wilkinson — Authority: 529
  Yglesias says : I believe that absent the [TARP] bailout, we’d be looking at even higher unemployment today. I think this is a plausible claim. But I don’t know of a satisfactory way to evaluate it. It’s plausible because some plausible theories about the nature of the financial economy and its interaction ...
  1 week ago

• Review of The Lost World Of Genesis One, Part Eighteen

  
  Exploring Our Matrix — Authority: 576
  Proposition eighteen of John Waltons The Lost World of Genesis One takes the stance that science education should be neutral when it comes to questions of purpose . A science course should by its very definition "discuss material origins from the perspective of a material ontology" and thus "there is no point ...
  1 week ago

• Hitchens: IC is an infinitely expanding tautology

  
  nikkypals.com — Authority: 171
  singularity=miracle wtf?), Hitchens argues that the argument from irreducible complexity (IC) -stating that because DNA is so complex or beautiful it must be created- is an “infinitely expanding tautology”. Relevant: en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org … Christopher Hitchens David ...
  2 weeks ago

• Some More Thoughts on ABC’s Visitors

  
  Athanatos Christian Apologetics Ministry — Authority: 124
  So ABC’s “V” was on again tonight.  I enjoyed it.  It lacked the same punch as the first episode but I still liked it.  It seems a little hurried to me.  Maybe there are too many commercials?  I’ve seen other hour long shows that seemed to really carry a narrative so I know its possible.  I can’t put ...
  3 weeks ago

• David Stove and the Plato cult

  
  Depressed Metabolism — Authority: 100
  David Stove’s book The Plato Cult and Other Philosophical Follies is a remarkable collection of essays. As a staunch positivist ,the author is not impressed with most of what constitutes “philosophy” (or the quality of our thinking in general). As Stove laments in the preface, “there is something fearfully ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Suborning of Science

  
  Contra Celsum — Authority: 472
  Modern Science Takes On The Garb of the Alchemist The Scientist magazine carried an article in its most recent edition entitled " Promises, Promises ." No, it was not bemoaning the verbal legerdemain of a febrile politician on the hustings. It was commenting on the growing tendency of the science establishment ...
  3 weeks ago

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