Stephen Law reports on a radio encounter between a skeptic and a vocal advocate in angels, in which the skeptic proposed that we would have objective evidence of angels if we found under controlled conditions that those who claimed to communicate with angels had gotten information they could not have gotten in any other way. [...]
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Random brilliant posts
Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 10, 2009
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Last weekend, for some reason, I read an unusually large number of blog posts that struck me as brilliant. Here’s a wrap-up: Comedy is Cynical by Robin Hanson: Plays off a brilliant-in-its-own-right Onion article about the naked status-seeking of American consumerism. Hanson comments: Comedy is full of such cynical observations like the above, far more [...]
Some disappointing bigotry from Adam Lee
Posted by Chris Hallquist on November 19, 2009
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Adam Lee has a post on polygamy and polyamory that I largely agree with, saying that adults should be allowed to do as they please with regards to their personal relationships, but marriage as a legal institution should be a one-legally-recognized-partner-per-person deal, largely due to practical difficulties with institutionally-supported polygamy. But in the middle of [...]