New appearance

I’ve been having trouble with the “theme”—the part of my blogging software that extracts the content from the database and lays it out on the screen. The latest problem, which doesn’t seem easy to solve, is the disappearance of posters’ names from comments. So I’ve replaced the theme I was using with another one. No … More ...

Sam Harris

We’re all familiar with Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins, and their staunchly anti-religious views.

How about Sam Harris, author of best-sellers “The End of Faith” and “Letter to a Christian Nation”? You may have heard of him from newspapers or cable TV coverage.

Dawkins says that Harris’s book “The End of Faith” should replace Gideon’s … More ...

Observations on a field trip

I went to a conference this Saturday put on by some academics and noted (as one might expect) that there’s a definite orthodoxy that provides the assumed background for discussions. For my own purposes I decided to summarize the orthodoxy, and here’s what I came up with:

  • There’s no truth except the results of the
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