Thursday, 14 March 2013

The harshness of selection for higher intelligence: mostly a matter of the lethality of low IQ

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* Many people who pride themselves on being tough-minded acknowledge the reality of differences in human intelligence, and have speculated...
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Why does God do things in such roundabout and indirect ways?

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* I have often found it difficult to understand why God constructed such a long-term, elaborate, and apparently unreliable means of salvat...
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Wednesday, 13 March 2013

The mass media versus religion: a neo-McLuhanite analysis

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* Each medium is a message: the mass medium - the whole thing - is a message. The whole thing includes print media (books, newspapers, m...
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Tuesday, 12 March 2013

The climate has cooled - for sure...

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* Since climate researchers (I refuse to call them scientists) are very obviously incompetent liars, and the weather 'forecasters'...
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Monday, 11 March 2013

Attitude to the sexual revolution is the single most decisive litmus test of Leftism

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* A positive attitude to the sexual revolution is the hallmark of Leftism, which trumps all other themes and unites disparate (and hostile...
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Mega randomized clinical trials and their intrinsic flaws

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* Fundamental deficiencies in the megatrial methodology Bruce G Charlton Current Controlled Trials in Cardiovascular Medicine . 2...
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Sunday, 10 March 2013

Implications of the reality of Man's free agency

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* The following is adapted from a comment I made on the blog of Wm Jas https://wmjas.wordpress.com/2013/03/10/philosophically-anarchic-...
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Saturday, 9 March 2013

When words fail

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* I have found that I simply cannot discuss many things that happen nowadays - beyond describing them. So, if I am pointing-out to someb...
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Friday, 8 March 2013

The Good News, and the bad news

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* The Good News is that Christ's work has won us all salvation - and all that we have to do is accept it. * The bad news is that e...
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Is THIS BLOG part of the mass media?

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* On the whole, yes of course, since it could potentially be read by a billion people, which is 'mass'. In actuality, it is read...
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Thursday, 7 March 2013

Real understanding versus procedural pseudo-understanding: a collage of sentences

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* The typical modern educated person - by educated I mean someone with advanced educational certification - has zero understanding of comp...
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Asking the right questions about the mass media: positive and negative agendas

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* People approach the question of the media and politics from the wrong end - they ask how politics - or more specifically politicians - i...
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Wednesday, 6 March 2013

Defending a clear, strong and simple understanding of God as loving Father

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* There is a rich set of comments and my responses still running on the post from a few days ago in which I am exploring how to explain su...

Why is the mass media intrinsically anti-Good? Because it necessarily displaces religion

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* The mass media is an enigma - of the kind that happens when we ask exactly the wrong questions. And, of course, it is exactly the mass...
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Tuesday, 5 March 2013

Why did mobile phones and social networking turn out to be mere extensions and amplifiers of the mass media?

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* It seems clear that the spread in usage of mobile phones and internet social networking websites of the Facebook type has been an exacer...
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