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Month: January 2014

Misc

Convincing people by agreeing with them

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Praj / 4 Comments

Worrying that the theory of evolution can can undermine the idea of human equality, Rod Dreher wonders if we’d be better off not knowing some things: Admi...

Education/Evidence

Intelligence, cont.

Posted on January 26, 2014 by Praj / 0 Comment

Victor’s brilliant comment deserves a call-out: The same can be said about class work and research. Even on the same topic or in the same academic area, s...

Evidence/Values

Is belief in evolution a good predictive tool?

Posted on January 25, 2014 by Praj / 1 Comment

[Warning – a long post that uses yet another tendentious sports analogy. Read at your peril.–PK] A reader questions both creationists ability to do ...

Evidence

The Wilt Chamberlain analogy for human intelligence

Posted on January 23, 2014 by Praj / 3 Comments

Wilt Chamberlain is one of the most dominant players in the history of basketball, if not team sports. He is the only player to score 100 points in a single gam...

Evidence

People are scary, part II

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Praj / 1 Comment

Victor helpfully critiqued my goal to develop a model of human intelligence: Of course my question would be what’s the point of creating such a conceptual model...

Evidence

Models of human intelligence

Posted on January 18, 2014 by Praj / 2 Comments

I want to revisit this Alex Knapp quote yet again: if [politicians] hold ideas about the world around us that are fundamentally at odds with scientific evidence...

Misc

I probably should not write this post

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Praj / 5 Comments

Although Alan Jacobs has much useful advice on how to develop as a thinker (see here, here, here, here and here), he goes a bit too far in criticizing writers w...

Values

Reductive thinking about religion and anti-Christian bias

Posted on January 12, 2014 by Praj / 9 Comments

While finding atheism in the human propensity for violence, Ta-Nehisi Coates makes some curious arguments about religion (emphasis added): I don’t believe...

Evidence/Values

Trend analysis, cont.

Posted on January 11, 2014 by Praj / 3 Comments

My writing here mostly uses the harm principle/individual rights/tolerance frameworks. Since there’s no hard evidence creationist beliefs cause actual har...

Evidence

Universal laws vs general trends

Posted on January 10, 2014 by Praj / 3 Comments

A reader worries that evolution isn’t the stopping point for creationists: Once a person willingly carves out exceptions and changes evolution to simply a...

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