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Friday, December 23, 2005

The Wrong Shall Fail, The Right Prevail

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As we approach the Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord, a thought to remember: I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old familiar carols pl...

Aristotle on Animal Thought

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In the great majority of animals there are traces of psychical qualities which are more markedly differentiated in the case of human beings....

Death of a Thousand Qualifications

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A very odd article at MSNBC about Gregory Paul's argument that there is a correlation between religious belief and sociological dysfunc...
Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Boyle on Humane Treatment of Animals

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In an early manuscript (probably late 1640s, when he would have been about 20), Robert Boyle put forward a number of arguments in favor of t...

Out to the Horizon, Part II

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[This is a bit late; I kept intending to put it up, but kept forgetting. Part I is already up.] After a few more shudders of the earth, the...
Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Turretin against Traducianism

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Francis Turretin , arguing that the human soul cannot be traduced: The soul is propagated by generation, either from both parents or from on...

Compensator Theory

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An interesting post at "Magic Statistics": Toward a sociology of atheism The most common efforts toward a sociology of atheism att...
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