I think it does, but there is a lot of stuff called philosophy. You can even find it at the cosmetic counter. And to think I went to school all these ...
It is not a matter of what cannot be known for sure, it is a matter of what we can know nothing about at all. Speculation is fine as long as one does ...
Some people just love to talk endlessly about something they know nothing about. Since it is untethered to any reality we know anything about there is...
The discussion has reached a critical juncture. Only a few questions and details remain: Is the Battleship USS New Jersey omnibenevolent? Is it God? O...
Your romantic notions of a golden age of scientific ignorance are at odds with historical facts. Michelangelo lived 1475-1564, David was sculpted betw...
On the one hand, it seems unwise to measure wisdom without being in possession of what is being measured. On the other, it seems unwise to therefore a...
It is not simply that he used the opportunity for a photo op, he cleared the area to make way for that opportunity. The Secret Service and Park Police...
The timing is suspicious. The methods are suspicious. Barr's role is suspicious. The actions of SS are suspicious. A report from the WP the day after ...
From the report: The report clears the USPP. It says nothing about Trump's decision to appear, how this was coordinated, or what measures were taken t...
You have not established a causal relation or shown that science and art are incompatible. d And this is exactly what is wrong with your post. It says...
The report is limited to the US Park Police. Several other law enforcement agencies were involved. The report says nothing about them. From the NYT: M...
This is a view of Aristotle that has recently been challenged; that his writings are neither doctrine nor lecture notes, but dialogic. He is in dialog...
No evidence of what? There is plenty of recorded evidence of what happened and when it happened. The report did not dispute that. Given Trump's nonsto...
This is the inspector general's report. Not a report by investigative journalists. It is well known that Trump had previously fired two confirmed and ...
Since this thread has already veered wildly off topic, the following is not out of place. A very brief look at our inherited beliefs: Many ancient poe...
This is not the end of the story. The question is: what does it fill it with? In my opinion, religion is at its best when it leaves the gaps open. But...
You state this as if it is a fact. It is not. How effective it is at preventing the spread of the virus is still under review. One thing is clear, whe...
The safety of the vaccine though is. All drugs potentially have bad side effects. It is a matter of risk/benefit analysis. You have misunderstood what...
Informed consent is not all or nothing. This is all regulated by agencies such as the FDA. Political considerations include such things as freedom and...
I cannot evaluate this without specifics. Were there underlying medical conditions? What was the cause of death? "a number" is statistically meaningle...
It is not clear whether you are denying the practice of informed consent or questioning the concept. The former is well documented. The latter is more...
That is not a more precise use of the term, it is a stipulated use. Not all relativism accepts the claim that all truths are equally justified, but ra...
Unfounded assertion on top of unfounded assertion does not amount to more than a bunch of unfounded assertions. Your notions of meaning and existence ...
Based on the numbers it is certainly reasonable and well deserved optimism. Nothing I have said reflects a total faith in medicine. But I have much mo...
Medical knowledge is never complete. Based on the information we have the vaccine is both safe and effective. That does not mean that no one will have...
No, you don't. But that is exactly what you are trying to do. But you can have more than one thing that exists. You do not know that perfect thing exi...
Defining something into existence is frivolous, but I will play along. Since nothing constrains God's existence there is nothing to prevents the exist...
A couple of hints as to how to read Descartes Meditations: Man's perfectibility - if we limit what we will to what we know we will never err. An immor...
Richard Friedman's "Who Wrote the Bible" discusses this in detail, but covers only the Hebrew Bible. Although Stockton does not cite sources for his a...
But God wiped out all living things except for two or seven pair (the story is not consistent on this point) of every living thing and Noah, his wife ...
I think the idea of adherence to the rules of language paints a false picture. It is not as if we follow a rule book. When Wittgenstein used the analo...
No one creates the rules for how language is used, but if you wish to say something and be understood you use grammatical language. This applies even ...
There are two texts that need to be considered when discussing divine justice in the Hebrew Bible, Job and Ecclesiastes. Both question God's justice. ...
I taught, among other things, biomedical ethics before retiring. My wife has a PhD in biochemistry and worked in the pharmaceutical industry for over ...
What measure do you use when, as you say, you do not believe the science? What measure do you use when the available data indicates that the vaccines ...
Or perhaps what is annihilated is the concept of God. This can be taken in two ways: 1) God is not limited by our concept, or 2) God is only a concept...
Risk benefit analysis can only be done on available data, not on fear of theoretical possibilities of adverse reactions. Based on available data the b...
The joke is, of course, he could never find the answer to this question. What does not exist does not know anything. This is not God's thought experim...
You have turned a thread about the Trinity into an attempt to discredit a highly regarded Biblical scholar. I am going to listen to my better angels a...
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