Reg the Fronkey Farmer

Let’s take the ‘Kafka Intifada’  a little further. However, I will coin it the “The Samsa Effect”.

Gregor does know that something has happened to him. What he fails to grasp initially is the significance of his transformation. His world has changed beyond recognition, but his inherited routine of thought continues running as though nothing fu…[Read more]

I don’t get why anyone would believe in stuff because they want to, rather than because they think it’s true.

We need to make a distinction between belief and inquiry. You can choose to examine a claim, expose yourself to arguments for it, avoid contrary evidence, join a community that reinforces it, or repeatedly rehearse certain ideas. Tho…[Read more]

Here is another post regarding the Sunday Book above.

Have a great week!

Over 50 years later and I can still recall the attar of silly putty. Beats incense any day. I guess plenty of young theists imprinted the face of Jesus in it and it stuck in the minds as the real deal 🙂

I made it through 232 of that video Enco. I got to 4:11. He does not know what atheism is and his arguments are terrible. But he does like “holy putty”.

To ensure my wording was correct, I got  Chat-GPT to edit and verify where needed. There are 2 different questions:

1. Can severe trauma during pregnancy alter the biology of the developing fetus?

2. Can trauma experienced by a parent before conception leave epigenetic effects                that are later detectable in children?

The…[Read more]

Yet even if you put together all the hardcore Islamist loons and their allies on the braindead European Left, these people still amount to a small minority. How then have they become so seemingly powerful and threatening?

That is from the article I linked above. I recently drove past the US Embassy in Dublin while there was a ‘Pro-Palestine’…[Read more]

Need a good man in your corner? Better call Saul Sugarman.

I read about that jet today. I thought it was a joke. I think that the Deputy Editor of Jewish News Daniel Sugarman summed it up nicely…

It’s ok, lads, I’m sure you can land a plane in a storm navigating via your much-vaunted superior moral compass.

It’s Civilisation or Barbarism….

@simonpaynton – cooperative breeding is also evolving 🙂

This seems like a good site for Evolution topics.

…and sharks have been around 50 million years longer than trees…….

I recalled Pat Condell today when I was watching the first video.

Just a follow up on the AI reasoning and the human evaluation of truth story above.

Religion is our oldest large-scale example of hallucinating a ‘theological Polyfilla” into the gaps of our knowledge. As investigation expands, the gaps contract and less filler is required. Yet believers often treat the retreat as evidence of refinement rat…[Read more]