Friday, February 15, 2008
The 80th Skeptic's Circle
The 80th Skeptics Circle is off and running. Bug Girl left me a Valentine reminding me to proof-read more carefully. :)
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A discussion of skepticism, logic, math, intelligent design creationism, board games, the Utah Jazz, marriage, having three children on the autism spectrum and two that not on the spectrum, being a DBA, teaching, the St. Louis metro area, my health since being diagnosed with ALS, and anything else that comes to mind.
About Me
- One Brow
- Metro-East St. Louis, Illinois, United States
- I'm a father of five, happily married since June 1989, former student of mathematics, currently full-time software engineer and retired part-time math teacher. You can reach me at one(underscore)brow(at)yahoo(dot)com.
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- Ask Greg Weisman - Responses
- The Daily Cartoonist
- Metro East Gamers
- The St. Louis Board Game Meetup Group
- Stonemaier Games
- TalkieToaster's Board Games Blog
- 18xx Concordance
- BoardGameGeek
- Poker Chip Forum
- Living and Dying by the Jazz
- Jazz Basketball blog
- Salt City Hoops
- SLC Dunk
- Jazz section of the Deseret News
- Jazz section of the Salt Lake Tribune
- JazzFanz
- Daily Nous
- The Skeptics' Annotated Bible Discussion Board
- Snopes.com: What's New?
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Isaiah 1:18
Come now, and let us reason together
HRG, on CARM (paraphrased with his approval)
With formal systems, such as mathematics, you can have certainty and demonstrability, but not reality.
With science, such as physics, you can have reality and demonstrability, but not certainty.
With belief systems, such as Christianity, you can have reality and certainty, but not demonstrability.
G. K. Chesterton, in St. Thomas Aquinas
After the great example of St. Thomas, the principle stands, or ought always to have stood established; that we must either not argue with a man at all, or we must argue on his grounds and not ours. We may do other things instead of arguing, according to our views of what actions are morally permissible; but if we argue we must argue "On the reasons and statements of the philosophers themselves."
Bertrand Russell, in The Analysis of Mind
Any habitual action, such as eating or dressing, may be performed on the appropriate occasion, without any need of thought, and the same seems to be true of a painfully large proportion of our talk.
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