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I don’t know where to fit this in, but…

Christopher Columbus did not actually discover America because he maintained until his death that he had reached some portion of Asia. Doubts were emerging but it was Amerigo Vespucci who fully realized that the Americas were truly something else, calling them a “new world.”

The point: You can only claim…[Read more]

I thought that Bayesian reasoning was about extrapolating “what is” to “what might be”, thereby limiting new ideas.

Thanks Simon, Bayesian thinking is all about checking out new ideas. We don’t want kids to hold beliefs, we want them to have “understandings”. Then when a new idea (information) comes along, they will have the skills to reason through it and adapt their understanding accordingly.

Bayesian reasoning, logic, and fallacy recognition would do more…[Read more]

I think that’s brilliant Reg.  I’m not sure about Bayesian thinking though – it seems to repackage “what’s possible” as “based on what’s already the case” – not allowing in new ideas.

The United States sent $50 million in condoms to Hamas. Diversity programs caused a plane crash. China controls the Panama Canal. Ukraine started the war with Russia.

Except, no. None of that is true. Not that it stops President Trump. In the first month since he returned to power, he has demonstrated once again a brazen willingness to advance…[Read more]

I have more to add but decided to start  with this. Let’s see how it develops.

@Jakelafort…..I am going to post something on Critical Thinking and improving Education for children soon.  A “first draft” that we can build upon.

@Strega, as always you are very welcome. Any break in the weather there?

@unapologetic – Point 3 – I always help xians by  correcting the chapter and verse notations when they start quoting scripture as some type of proof. I then explain the circular nature of their argument and say “If you are trying to prove the Bible is the word of your god by quoting it, then I will quote from Dracula to prove it also is”.

@Enco, Thanks, I blame cuts to the editing dept for not replying to emails asking them to explain what they actually do!!  Typo has been corrected.

Also, there is no historical evidence that Charles Darwin ever wrote, said, or implied that his goal was to “murder God.”

Re: Picking a fight. There is some good advice there, that I wish more xians would take.
2. Don’t assume that your atheist friends are secretly angry at God  (god is just a figurehead. we are angry with your religion.)
3. The Bible is …, but if you quote it to an atheist as an authority, it will be like your doctor explaining his diagnosis by…[Read more]

Reg,

Another Lair for Jesus writes a pee reviewed article.

You misspelled “LIAR for Jesus”. Jerry Bergman can only be a LAIR for Jesus if Jesus lives inside of him, if Jerry were the Jesus Cave housing the Jesus Computer and the Jesus-Mobile.

Yeah, this guy’s an idiot, though National Geographic evidently did get it wrong about the Big Bang…[Read more]

Thanks, Reg!

The Swedish case that i had cited and Reg has Sunday’d is an illustration of the current controlling the dispensation of not justice but ideology. Assuming even a modicum of honesty in the reporter’s representation of the facts it is a revealing reflection of the contemporary lefty values. Once again enabling the ineffable horror of the Islamic…[Read more]

Have a great week folks!