We often get some variation of “Until ID proposes a ‘mechanism’ for how the design is accomplished, it cannot be taken seriously as an explanation for origins.” Here is an example from frequent commenter Bob O’H (who, after years of participation on this site should know better): If ID is correct, then the design has […]
Author: Barry Arrington
attorney; specialist in school law and litigation; former member of Colorado House of Representatives
How Materialist Fundamentalists Are Like Christian Fundamentalists
In a comment to PaV’s recent post about the insurmountable problem the Cambrian Explosion presents for Darwinism, materialist fundamentalist Seversky writes: the Cambrian Explosion is no longer such a problem for Darwin’s theory Of course this is nonsense of a high order, which has been refuted 10,000 times including in the very post Sev was […]
Animal Kingdom, Nietzsche Comes to the Small Screen
[Spoilers below] Animal Kingdom is a TNT television drama based on a 2010 Australian movie of the same name. The series follows the Codys, an Oceanside, California crime family. The Codys plan and execute their crimes with meticulous attention to detail, and their crimes pay very well indeed. The fruits of their criminal labors include […]
There is no Reason to Believe Any Computer Will Ever be Conscious
On this date in 1944 one of the first computers, the IBM Mark I, became operational. See the Wiki article here. From the article: [The Mark I] could do 3 additions or subtractions in a second. A multiplication took 6 seconds, a division took 15.3 seconds, and a logarithm or a trigonometric function took over […]
Will the President Set Right a Ten-Year Old Injustice?
The following headline appeared in the New York Times today: Trump May Be Preparing Pardons for Servicemen Accused of War Crimes My family and I have been praying for a headline like this for over ten years. Before I tell this story I will disclose my personal interest. My father met his best friend Darryl […]
The Multiverse is Anti-Scientific
The UD News Desk’s latest post has me thinking. The multiverse is not only unscientific, it is positively anti-scientific. If there are an incomprehensibly vast (I believe some say even infinite, though that is hard to conceptualize) number of universes, then any being or phenomenon can be explained by “we just happen to live in […]
Increasing Skepticism Among Secular Scientists?
Today at The Federalist: The plain truth from the literature, conferences, expert perception, and a bit of anecdote for color, is that current Neo-Darwinism is far from the untouchable theory it is lauded to be. Not only this, but it has serious and increasing skeptics and challengers from within the secular scientific community.
How Do You Know an Artificial Intelligence Advocate is Shining You On?
When they say they “know” that an AI machine is conscious. How can I be so sure? Easy. As I have discussed before, we cannot in principle “know” that even other humans are conscious; far less can we know that an AI is conscious. By its very nature, consciousness, as evidenced by subjective self-awareness, can […]
For Progressives, the Only “Principle” That Matters is This: We Advance Principles When They Suit Our Interests, and we Abandon Them When They Don’t
Two recent posts have highlighted the moral and intellectual rot that threatens Western Civilization. In the first, materialist Seversky expressed a moral nihilism that is breathtaking in its scope. I asked him if the ancient practice of killing unwanted girl babies was an affirmatively good thing. His answer: “It was an affirmatively good thing for […]
WJM Schools Brother Brian on Why He is an Oppressor Under His Own Definition
It is amusing to watch WJM hoist a materialist with his own petard. All that follows is WJM: Brother Brian, So, if you could, you’d force others to live by your preference – let’s call it the non-oppression of women. Your position is that it is your subjective preference as to how people should behave, […]
Social Justice Warriors to Believers in Truth: Drop Dead
Those of us who believe in truth, virtue and “justice” (unadorned with the modifier “social”) are inimical to the “social justice” movement. So says this UN report: “Present-day believers in an absolute truth identified with virtue and justice are neither willing nor desirable companions for the defenders of social justice.” Social Justice in an Open […]
Severskey is Honest About the Logic of Materialism
You’ve gotta love Sev’s refreshing honesty. In this post I noted that killing little babies was not uncommon in ancient cultures. And then I asked: [Materialists] say that morality is a social construct; which means that “good” means what the people of a society collectively deem to be good. If that is so, was it […]
Was Killing Babies Good?
I have a question for our materialist interlocutors. As Georgi Boorman summarizes in this article, in many ancient cultures killing certain babies was an acceptable, even lauded, practice. Here’s my question: You say that morality is a social construct; which means that “good” means what the people of a society collectively deem to be good. […]
“If’n I Drop, I’m Gonna Be in Motion”
In a recent post I took umbrage with a writer who said : “If determinism is also true, that does not mean that free will is false.” Well, yes, it kinda does, because those two things — determined and free — are mutually exclusive. The whole thing put he in mind of a scene from […]
The Governor of Virginia: Killing Babies is OK by Me
Yesterday two stories out of Virginia went viral. In the first the Democrat sponsor of an “abortion” bill confirmed that she intends to allow the babies to be killed up to the moment of birth. See here. You can read the text of the bill in this article. Under the proposal a baby could be […]