What is Truth?

From David Coppedge:
There is a view of science that doubts man’s ability to comprehend reality as it is.  The job of science, many have argued, is to organize experience to give us a degree of explanation, prediction and control – not to comprehend reality.  This is a pragmatic view.  If by using the [...]

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Good Singer?

Peter Singer presents the classic understanding of the phony “problem of suffering”:
Do we live in a world that was created by a god who is all-powerful, all-knowing, and all good? Christians think we do. Yet a powerful reason for doubting this confronts us every day: the world contains a vast amount of pain and suffering. [...]

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Unscientific Myths

Here is a summary of the story about transgendered six-year-olds. This commenter has the rational assessment:
Gender is a social construct. I’m very wary indeed of declaring a preference for a certain socially defined set of behaviors as being somehow “innate”. It strains credulity to assert these children acquired their gender identification ex nihilo. If you [...]

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The Scientific American

Madison Grant (November 19, 1865 – May 30, 1937) was an American lawyer, known primarily for his work as a eugenicist and conservationist. As a eugenicist, Grant was responsible for one of the most famous works of scientific racism, and played an active role in crafting strong immigration restriction and anti-miscegenation laws in the United [...]

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An-arche

Robert Beale rants and goes to jail. Over at Vox Popoli they are weeping for him, but really, the curtain has fallen and it’s time to go home. There will be plenty more such cases under the next presidential administration.
I love reading about tragic figures who confound the shallow mediocrity of the middle class, go [...]

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