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CFI hosted a speaker tonight.
First, it proved that the local chapter of the Center For Inquiry has odd taste in events---why a political scientist to dissect New Atheism, and a miniscule promotion campaign that only attracted CFI members and a few f… -
Which ape is closest to us?
[JD 2455128.25] There is an ongoing debate about whether humans are most closely related to chimpanzees (Pan) or orangutans (Pongo), and if indeed chimpanzees, which one---Pan troglodytes, or Pan paniscus? Honestly, wh… -
On libertarianism
The most extreme libertarians, the anarcho-capitalists, hold that all government is inherently evil. What they seem to fail to understand is that government is only as evil as the people who run it---and anarchy is as ev… -
Of rights and research, rats and undergrads
<!--@page { margin: 0.79in }P { margin-bottom: 0.08in }-->[JD 2455107.25] PeTA2 recently gave a presentation onthe (alleged) horrible abuses of animals in scientific and medicalresearch. I wasn't able to… -
Nature via Nurture
[JD 2455103.40] Proof we are not genetic automatons:I can speak English. I wasn't born speaking English, I had tolearn it. I could just as easily have learned Spanish or Arabic orMandarin, as indeed many people do. … -
Propaganda, advertising, consciousness-raising
[JD 2455090.82.] What, exactly, is the difference between advertising and propaganda? The only difference I can see is that propaganda is put forth by a government, and advertising is put forth by a corporation. So, if… -
The AVP model of geopolitics
[Julian date 2455086.]I just started reading BenjaminBarber's Jihad vs. McWorld; I can't help but think that thisconflict fits the tagline for the first Alien Versus Predatorfilm:"Whoever wins, we lose." Themov… -
A fundamental argument against abortion
The more I think about abortion, theless I can morally justify it. I don't think it's fair to call it"murder"; but I do think it is deeply immoral, indeed thatit should be illegal, punished on par with something like … -
Darwinism
If I'm: A Darwinist because I believe in natural selection, I guess I'm also: A Pythagoreist, because I believe in geometry; An Arist… -
Stupid Rules Normal People Follow
[Note: I'm using the word "normal"in this post. Those who are not normal—myself included—should nottake offense; I am using this term in the mathematical sense of "nearthe mean of a normal distribution," as in within …
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Virulent Senioritis
This has not been a good semester for me. I suffer... -
CFI hosted a speaker tonight.
First, it proved that the local chapter of the Cen... -
A truly excellent analysis of theology
I couldn't have said it better myself, so read it ...
