tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post5241044830908278904..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Atheist on Atheist Violence, or Pass the PopcornGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-30919151992672089182018-04-17T18:03:41.773-07:002018-04-17T18:03:41.773-07:00It makes no sense. If these pretenders want to sur...It makes no sense. If these pretenders want to surpass Aquinas, they're going to have to do better than scientism.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-72252549990923305142018-04-17T13:44:11.374-07:002018-04-17T13:44:11.374-07:00Seriously, who else these days refuses to give an ...<i>Seriously, who else these days refuses to give an inch to the opponents of personhood, free will, genuine humanism, natural rights, love, truth, beauty, etc?</i><br /><br />Truly, and this is all that truly matters! Yet, our culture wants to write it off to nothing more than frisky stardust.tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-48008060187589899442018-04-17T11:50:45.683-07:002018-04-17T11:50:45.683-07:00Well, we're going to have to put author Tallis...Well, we're going to have to put author Tallis on the watch-list as a precaution. Although, in the brief meeting we held this morning to discuss, we could not identify precisely, or forecast, any potential threat, trend, or problem posed by his ideas at this point.<br /><br />Just when you think you have a lock on the public mind, some new rabble-rouser comes along. But that's why I make the big bucks I suppose. Job security. <br /><br />Regards, Tritellevitz. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-56757049667701545682018-04-17T10:23:34.791-07:002018-04-17T10:23:34.791-07:00Negative scientific studies, studies that demonstr...<i>Negative scientific studies, studies that demonstrate negative findings (like showing that a drug doesn't lower blood pressure any more than a sugar pill) aren't as sexy as positive studies. Very few professors have gotten tenure by only showing what is not true.</i><br /><br />There's a particular kind of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonogram" rel="nofollow">puzzle where you create a picture by filling in squares</a>, according to numbers listed for each column and row. It is generally rather difficult to know which squares to fill in if you can't figure out which ones must be left empty, and of course the final image is a result of the interplay of positive and negative space. juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com