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Something Crazy Is True (January 23rd) My suggestion is this: Common sense is incoherent in matters of metaphysics. There’s no way to develop an ambitious, broad-ranging, self-consistent metaphysical system without doing serious violence... view

Random Guidelines Are Better Than No Guidelines (July 20th) [After describing an experiment in which a neural network playing Civilization was given random text from the Wall Street Journal as data as well as a copy of the owner's manual. It only won 17% of th... view

Separating Church and State Does Not Entail Separating Religion and Politics (April 20th) The dubious reasoning of this “secularist syllogism” rests on a fallacy of equivocation, in which “religion and politics” is wrongly made identical with “church and state.” Church and stat... view

Unanswerable Questions (October 11th) When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of "No answer." It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He ... view

Do vs Done (October 9th) Run, John, run. The law commands But gives neither feet nor hands. Better news the gospel brings; It bids us fly and gives us wings. view

Professors More Religious Than Assumed (October 8th) According to their study 51.5 percent of professors, responding to the question of whether they believe in God, chose the response, "While I have doubts, I feel that I do believe in God," or the state... view