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Life in a World of Heuristic — A Response (#4) to John Fensel on Logical Fallacies

John and I have been publicly corresponding for five months on a wide variety of issues. Recently, he has waded into economics way over his head, asserting paradoxically that (1) it it the government’s duty to provide a highly regulated sort of currency called food stamps to avoid an imaginary crisis of malnutrition in the [...]
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devil’s advocacy on sexism: why i’m not alarmed at the absence of female bibliobloggers

I was raised a skeptic. I loved science as a child, and upon learning of some new study that came to a particular conclusion I would often go tell my father what the scientists had discovered. He, frequently, would challenge the conclusion, going straight to the challenge of epistemology, ‘What can be known about this [...]
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o little town of nazareth . . .

Guess what? Remember that skeptical position that Nazareth didn’t even exist in Jesus time? Famous atheist Frank Zindler, of atheist magazine, pointed out the following facts (quoted from Wikipedia): No “ancient historians or geographers mention [Nazareth] before the beginning of the fourth century.” Nazareth is not mentioned in the Old Testament, the Talmud, nor in [...]
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