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Posting in SLAM to discuss on the validity of Sander's research. Here's his analysis (links to the Chambers et. al. rebuttal and his reply), and a decent enough Google search to get you familiar with the debate. For Blacks in Law School, Can Less Be More? By ADAM LIPTAK Published: February 13, 2005 ...

This should read: "Because in order to move from the method of justification to proving a theory of truth you must show inference is justified by the evidence . That's an inductive process." Additionally, its also a subjective process and in order to be persuasive parties must be agree on ...

Yet again, you are ignoring... Blah, blah, blah, I'm ignoring nothing. I don't see anyone ranting for or against empirical methods besides yourself. Why the fuck do you have to "prove" that the set is well-ordered in order to show that logical probability increases with an increasing numb...

Where in the CIA world book did you find that data? It's a rather large thing to go groping blindly for hoping to find the particular data you are citing. Here's the excerpt, under United States -> Economy The onrush of technology largely explains the gradual development of a "two-tier labor m...

But if the test of whether something can be considered a "science" is the correct application of the scientific method, then creationism obviously fails (as do some sociology and psychology theories, but that's another subject). There are certainly some psychological claims that are ideol...

DPDarkPrimus wrote:

Obloquium wrote:

DPDarkPrimus wrote:So you simply believe in Jesus to believe in Jesus.

I believe in Jesus and that my faith is important. The end.

What I said.

Pretty much.

That is just another way of saying that there is not a shred of objective evidence whatsoever for any religious belief. Exactly. But that's not at issue here, is it? Depending on the sample number, induction can have a far greater logical probability of truth than random guessing, yet you are tryin...

His arguments probably make perfect sense if you accept his unstated premise that the government should have absolutely no priorities whatsoever other than expansion of the GDP at any cost. Wow, that reads just like a blurb out of the introduction to a very popular macroeconomics textbook; one writ...

By the logic of the "we can't raise minimum wage" argument, we would produce a tremendous amount of job creation by lowering the minimum wage. Whee! Let's just drop it to $0.25/hr, and we'll wipe out unemployment! Won't it be awesome? I love conservative logic. The "conservative logi...

You have Faith in your religion, you have confidence in the real world. And you have faith that reality maps to your empirical understanding of it. The distinction between religious and empirical knowledge is that the former is not revealed empirically. Beyond that, the propositional systems are st...

From my side of things, it's partly political and partly self interest. When accompany pays its fulltime workers such lousy wages, it means those of us who do make good money end up paying for welfare, medicaid, food stamps, you name it. So in effect, we are subsidizing cheapskate employers. My emp...

And are you implying that anyone of any religious bent whatsoever is somehow incapble of this "confidence"? From an empirical perspective, yes. The supernatural experience defies falsification. Therefore, "God exists" and all consequent propositions are unempirical and are irrel...

I'm not at all convinced that induction needs to be elevated to the status of principle in the first place. I think you mean that confidence need not rely on inductive reasoning, which I of course contend. The principle of induction is axiomatic regardless of how confidence is justified. If falsifi...

Sriad wrote:"The Light of Other Days" by Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clarke is about the development of cheap, small wormholes used initially as cameras and the complications that go along with absolute loss of privacy.

I just picked it up. Thanks.

Incorrect. Faith is irrational belief without evidence. Correct if redundant. An irrationally held belief is unjustified, whatever evidence associated with it is irrelevant. Confidence is rational believ bassed on evidence and observation. And the principle of induction--you know, the mechanism whi...

They should go for a 100 ft Buddy Jesus. That'll get people talking.

DPDarkPrimus wrote:So you simply believe in Jesus to believe in Jesus.

I believe in Jesus and that my faith is important. The end.

DPDarkPrimus wrote:Most people have given emotional feelings, and emotions are far from rational.

My belief in God and the importance of my faith persists regardless of its ethical or aesthetic benefits or costs. I said as much in my last post.

Here's an exercise. Take it as given that ID will continue to spread through the nation's schools with no judicial interference. What are you willing to see happen in order to prevent Creationism from being taught in public schools all together or, at the very least, in a science course?

I don't see how this is funny.... I got to the part where the author claims that Science is NOT a method of discovering truth, simply because we can never be absolutly sure of anything, and then I had to go throw up.... How can anyone be this insane or stupid? Science is not a method of ascertainin...

Any particular reason WHY it is an important belief? No, it's not a rational belief. And furthermore I am distrustful of theists who claim that their religious beliefs are. The other people in this thread have been able to explain why their religious belief is important. I already told you. I belie...

DPDarkPrimus wrote:But why is that belief so important to you?

Because I believe it to be.

Fuzzy wrote:This is a question aimed at religious people, because I'm curious, and I'd like to see what people have to say.

Why is it important to you to have a religion?

Because "(The Christian) God exists" is a basic belief I hold.

Alyeska wrote:Atheists don't have Faith. Atheists have Confidence.

Which reduces to faith in the principle of induction.

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