Portland University – Uncommon Descent

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Peter Boghossian has quit at “ideas go to die here” Portland U

Would any readers who pay taxes in the state of Oregon like to write in and explain what they pay taxes for? Is this how you think your tax money should be spent?

chuckdarwin Bornagain It is hard to miss; it is a common theme in your comments. However, I don't see its relevance.... – Physicist Marcelo Gleiser: Beauty in the...
Pater Kimbridge Jerry, if that were true, then hospitals and medical venues, where staff wear masks all day, would be the places... – At Evolution News: Three stunners challenge...
polistra Now we're starting to get somewhere. Open letters and petitions are meaningless. Protests only excite the psychopaths into more killing.... – Berkeley scientist and center director resigns...
kairosfocus MNY, please refrain from accusations like that; they are offensive beyond measure. Then too, I suggest that warrant of credible... – Is there such a thing as...
jerry Great example of why masks are counterproductive as we need all these other low levels of DNA to form immunity.... – At Evolution News: Three stunners challenge...
Pater Kimbridge Pathogens can be spread in this same way. Thanks for the additional validation that we need to wear masks during... – At Evolution News: Three stunners challenge...
bornagain77 CD, you do realize that I was talking about the self-refuting epistemology inherent in what Darwin's theory actually entails do... – Physicist Marcelo Gleiser: Beauty in the...
ET seversky: The problem is that science is trying to ascertain what are the facts. Scientists do that using science. The... – Physicist Marcelo Gleiser: Beauty in the...
chuckdarwin So what, exactly, is this “false and illusory” view? Is this short essay another veiled “correct” assault on the fact... – Physicist Marcelo Gleiser: Beauty in the...
ram Seversky @19, What do you care? You're just a troll. And everyone knows it. If you were a real philosopher,... – Egnor vs. Dillahunty: 11. Is evil...
bornagain77 Sabine Hossenfelder stated: "we do not have an empirically supported probability distribution for the constants of nature." First and foremost,... – Sabine Hossenfelder: No way to tell...
mohammadnursyamsu @KF Objectivity does basically exclude freedom, because facts are FORCED by evidence. You are just talking outrageous lies. The truth... – Is there such a thing as...
jerry There is an infinite number of possibilities for constants. What are the consequences of the one that happened. It’s not... – Sabine Hossenfelder: No way to tell...
kairosfocus MNY: materialists conceive of making a choice, the same as like a chesscomputer calculating a move That is the precise... – Is there such a thing as...
BobRyan From the OP, "Creation by an alien intelligence is the best way to account for our universe:" That is the... – At Mind Matters News: Harvard astronomer:...
mohammadnursyamsu @seversky The knowledge of good and evil, refers to conceiving of making a choice, in terms of using the facts... – Egnor vs. Dillahunty: 11. Is evil...
polistra Loeb says some sensible things, but this ain't one of them. Seeing aliens as our super-leaders is just an acceptable... – At Mind Matters News: Harvard astronomer:...
martin_r So, if i am not mistaken, this guy from Harvard is a creationist, right ? – At Mind Matters News: Harvard astronomer:...
Sandy I assume you’re appealing to the code-like nature of the genetic ‘code’, i.e. that’s it’s abstract and purely arbitrary. Are... – Is it the “junk DNA” that...
ET JVL: IF the genetic code is a code based on the strictest definition then it’s purely arbitrary, abstract, it could... – Is it the “junk DNA” that...
ET JVL: The raw materials available in most mammalian bodies are quite similar so that it’s really the building instructions that... – Is it the “junk DNA” that...