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In The Belly of the Whale - Now Available
Dear Readers, Dad's final (? maybe?) work is now available at Amazon, B&N, and many other fine retailers. I compiled a list a fe...
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TOF once wrote an article entitled "The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown and Down 'n Dirty Mud-Wrassle" which described the century-l...
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Hello family, friends and fans of Michael F. Flynn. It is with sorrow and regret that I inform you that my father passed away yesterday,...
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1. The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown 2. The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown: Down for the Count 3. The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown: The Great Gali...
Ran across yet another bright who sneered at that God person without evincing any actual logic or reasoning. So, in honor of St. Thomas, I'll translate the sneer into a syllogism!
ReplyDeleteMajor premise: Miracles never happen.
Minor premise: The Resurrection and Transubstantiation are miracles.
Valid inference: The Resurrection and Transubstantiation never happen.
That wasn't so hard! Now, all the dude needs to do is show, somehow, that the major premise is true! Woo hoo!
Let me get some popcorn.
That meme is bottom-heavy in the extreme. I'm surprised it didn't tear in two like an event horizon.
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ReplyDeleteMy favourite Aquinas response meme is Mechaquinas is not impressed
ReplyDeleteSeveral days late, but this thread on Worldbuilding.SE has some delightful misuses of logic going on. There's another one positing a "perfectly rational, perfectly open-minded" humanity and how that might come to be as well.
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