Liberty – Uncommon Descent

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L&FP 44a: What is 2 + 2, Mr Smith? (1984 as demonstration of how first duties and first truths are inextricably intertwined)

1984 is a classic satirical novel on the nature of tyranny in the mass media driven, information age, totalitarian surveillance state. Accordingly, it is vital to appreciate the force of the Winston Smith on the Rack scene — yes, taken from the related movie — where the issue of the self-evident truth 2 + 2 Read More…

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Is the USA going over the edge as we speak?

Scott Adams, American cartoonist and commenter on events with a particular view to persuasion and narrative dominance seems to agree. Transcript of key comments: I think I’ve been telling you for some time the obvious way that these protests/riots/looting episodes were going to go. There was only one way that these would go under the Read More…

At 1776 + 244, is the American Revolution dead or dying?

The American Revolution was a catalyst that showed that a sustainable modern, representational, Constitutional Republic of significant “we the People” democratic character was feasible. It served as a beacon of hope for the world, nowhere better captured than in key words from the American Declaration of Independence, 244 years ago today: When . . . Read More…

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Battle of Britain Day, Sunday, Sept 15, 1940 + 79 years

Today marks the 79th anniversary by date and day, of “the thirteen hours that saved Britain” (and the world): Again, food for thought to awaken us to sobering lessons of history. END

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FYI: Blackstone on the laws of our morally governed nature

Sometimes, a classic reference provides food for thought: >>Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-1769) Sir William Blackstone INTRODUCTION, SECTION 2 Of the Nature of Laws in General Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate or inanimate, rational Read More…

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Why There Is (And Should Be) No Legal Right To Transgender Protections

Transgenderism is when a person considers themselves to internally be the opposite sex of their physical body. They mentally “self-identify” in contradiction to the physical fact of their body sex. Transgender law advocates insist that self-identified “transgenders” be given legal right to have unfettered access to all public facilities currently reserved for one sex or Read More…

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Jack Well, BA77, I've read a lot of your posts, and listened to some of your Youtube videos, and you seem... – Is “string theory world” in some...
bornagain77 In the Scientific American article we also find Avi Loeb waxing poetic about Darwinian evolution, space travel, the morality of... – At Mind Matters News: NASA seeks...
ET With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. Without religion... – Steven Weinberg 1933–2021
kairosfocus Sev, all because Ivermectin clearly works, per population level results . . . try Peru, Mexico, India and Slovakia for... – The slow descent of “Science!” As...
kairosfocus MNY, observations and explanatory models in science are different in nature. The degree of warrant for an observation is naturally... – L&FP, 47: The challenge of "proof"...
Querius Bornagain77 @11 and 12, Thank you for the well-written and fascinating pieces from Weinberg along with your thoughts and those... – Steven Weinberg 1933–2021
ET Try as they may, Napoleon's people could only tease out so much sugar from the sugar beet. Wm. Dembski is... – ID theorists were right about junk...
Jonathan11 @Robert Sheldon Please tell me you are joking. – ID theorists were right about junk...
mohammadnursyamsu To prove there is water on mars. There is the model of there being water on mars on the one... – L&FP, 47: The challenge of "proof"...
Robert Sheldon We all think we are the first to employ gene editing. This is far from the truth. The Canaanites lived... – ID theorists were right about junk...
doubter I think that another reason for the limited effectiveness and probable difficult tradeoffs involved in gene editing for human enhancement... – ID theorists were right about junk...
ET The ONLY reason there was a pandemic is because the world's population is unhealthy. Most of the deaths were due... – ID theorists were right about junk...
Viola Lee BA quotes Weinberg: "I don’t think one should underestimate the fix we are in. That in the end we will... – Steven Weinberg 1933–2021
TAMMIE LEE HAYNES Manipulating human genes? Trust the Science Like the Science that gave us the pandemic. (either through incompetence or by evil... – ID theorists were right about junk...
bornagain77 Another place that Steven Weinberg was brutally honest about the weaknesses inherent is his worldview of Atheistic Naturalism is in... – Steven Weinberg 1933–2021
bornagain77 First, in paying respect to Steven Weinberg, Steven Weinberg often had a brutal honesty about the weaknesses inherent in his... – Steven Weinberg 1933–2021
Querius Of course you don't have any idea what I'm talking about. All you would have to do is scroll back... – Kirk Durston takes on Larry Krauss...
polistra Makes sense. Old-fashioned breeders, using intentional selection, were able to improve certain qualities of wheat or roses or dogs, but... – ID theorists were right about junk...
TAMMIE LEE HAYNES Dr Weinberg said that the evil in the world came from religious people So let's take Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot,... – Steven Weinberg 1933–2021
ET 5 million deaths a year caused by global climate related abnormal temps. 4,594,000 from the cold; 489,000 from the heat. – The slow descent of “Science!” As...