Fisherian Runaway Doesn’t Work Like That: Manosphere Pseudoscience Strikes Again!
I’ve been hired to critically analyze another pseudoscientific bollard from the professional misogynist Stardusk (a.k.a. The Thinking Ape): the incel-mgow argument that “fisherian runaway” proves women (read: “sluts!”) are biologically...Touch, All the Way Down: Qualia as Computational Discrimination
Today I am going to offer a naturalist theory of qualia—the particulars of “what it is like” of conscious experience, like the redness of red or the floweriness of a flower’s scent or the twanginess of a guitar, or even what love or fear, or...Theism, Naturalism, and Explanatory Power
Last week I published an eristic analysis of an exchange of videos between Rationality Rules and Capturing Christianity, on Which Is ‘Rational’: Theism or Atheism? This time I will analyze a previous Capturing Christianity video, “Why Theism Best...Which Is ‘Rational’: Theism or Atheism?
Of course, atheism. But in any debate with the deluded, they will claim it’s the other way around. Flat Earthers will claim the rest of us are deluded, that believing in a spherical Earth is irrational, and so on. So someone not already up to speed might not be...Matt Kovacs Demonstrates What’s Wrong with Atheists Clinging to the Historicity of Jesus
I’ve commented a lot lately in my articles on the historicity of Jesus that critics themselves are now demonstrating why historicity is a bankrupt paradigm: they never have a sound or valid argument for it. Instead, they kneejerk oppose it emotionally, doing no...Three Models of Critical Thinking: Remote Work, Generational Wealth, and Election Polling
Three articles I read recently contain such valuable lessons for critical thinking that for my end-of-month analysis I want to summarize them for you and extract for you the general lessons you can learn from them, so you can apply them to every question in your life...Did the Rapture Already Happen!? No. Nor Will It Ever.
“Truly I tell you, this generation shall certainly not pass away until all these things have happened,” we’re told the Lord said, “For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with...Did the Rapture Already Happen!? My Debate with the Full Preterist Don Preston Is Tonight
You can catch up on the strange world of Christian preterism (a view lately gaining a lot of attention, and causing a lot of panic among Evangelicals), especially “full preterism,” at Wikipedia. But in the ultra-quick: Don Preston holds that Jesus not only...Is This Possible!? Giving an Amazon Sales Event a Try
I don’t imagine this is possible, but I was curious enough to try: if I can generate $1500 in sales through my Amazon Associates link, they will give me a “bonus” of $45. A whole forty-five dollars! In addition to my usual commissions on those sales...A Golden Example of Antichoicers Lying to Your Face
Just this week a student in one of my online classes answered a test question with a real-world example of trying to manipulate people using numbers and graphs, which they had to debunk. The example they chose (from the course text, Levitin’s Field Guide to...Trump-Vance v. Harris-Walz: Comparing Their Official Policy Platforms (Part 2)
I will begin this month by completing my political-philosophical analysis of the competing policy platforms of the Presidential regime that We the People will be electing in about a month. I explained what I am doing and set the ground rules in Part 1, and there...We Have a Home!
Thank you to everyone who donated or brought me paying work to help us make closing costs on a new home. I appreciate everyone’s support. Our timeline was tight but we did it. Our rental home being sold, we had to vacate by end of this month. But we closed on a...Trump-Vance vs. Harris-Walz: Comparing Their Official Policy Platforms (Part 1)
I will close this month and begin the next with a political-philosophical analysis of the competing policy platforms of the Presidential regime that We the People will be electing in about a month. This is a blackbox analysis. Meaning, I’m not concerning myself...You Know They’re a [Good|Lousy] Philosopher If…
I’ve been working in the field of philosophy for decades. It has literally been my religion. I spent half my life researching it and developing my own comprehensive, coherent, evidence-based philosophy, which became my 2005 book Sense and Goodness without God: A...James Tabor and the Mainstream Paul
James Tabor recently wrote two guest posts on Bart Ehrman’s blog in preparation for an academic conference on the historical Paul. One is better than the other, but both are illustrative of everything right and wrong about biblical studies as a...Get Dr. Carrier’s Latest!
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