tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post2124104552467188240..comments2023-12-21T06:35:36.624-05:00Comments on Recursivity: Creationists Get it Wrong AgainUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-2039012875529912822011-10-19T18:56:13.094-04:002011-10-19T18:56:13.094-04:00Isaac Asimov wrote something like a longer version...Isaac Asimov wrote something like a longer version of that Emo Philips joke here: <a href="http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/asimov.htm" rel="nofollow">The Reagan Doctrine</a>.codyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11407919985914326282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-67295307965976006712011-10-19T14:01:15.236-04:002011-10-19T14:01:15.236-04:00"What ghost authors has Yavelow uncovered?&qu..."What ghost authors has Yavelow uncovered?"<br /><br />You mean, "What ghost authors has Yavelow uncovered who have admitted it?", right?Wosniaknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-63077219588783233932011-10-17T17:11:49.561-04:002011-10-17T17:11:49.561-04:00I'm not sure what your point about Foster is. ...I'm not sure what your point about Foster is. Does Foster agree with you? I don't think so.<br /><br />As for Yavelow, I looked at his "analysis" a year or two ago, and it was not convincing at all, because he did not provide any comparisons with other authors. <br /><br />What ghost authors has Yavelow uncovered?Jeffrey Shallithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12763971505497961430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-58735088880900026382011-10-16T22:53:25.013-04:002011-10-16T22:53:25.013-04:00Can you do better than Don Foster? The author of t...Can you do better than Don Foster? The author of this site sure thinks you can: http://www.jameson245.com/foster_page.htm<br />How about Chris Yavelow, who wrote a authorship detection program called FictionFixer? http://www.cashill.com/intellect_fraud/yavelow.htmWosniaknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-80809648564325711432011-10-16T19:15:28.424-04:002011-10-16T19:15:28.424-04:00Woz:
No apology for your incorrect suspicion, I s...Woz:<br /><br />No apology for your incorrect suspicion, I see.<br /><br />I don't know what the "well-known critique" is. I based my conclusion on the argument presented. <br /><br />When you convince someone with actual credentials in authorship determination, such as Don Foster, let me know.Jeffrey Shallithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12763971505497961430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-1978654085951044242011-10-16T18:48:24.449-04:002011-10-16T18:48:24.449-04:00Actually, the fellow has mostly solid arguments an...Actually, the fellow has mostly solid arguments and a few weak ones. The well-known critique focused only on the weak ones.Wosniaknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-83654983016285634962011-10-16T12:12:22.105-04:002011-10-16T12:12:22.105-04:00I suspect your response was a gut reaction, and no...<i>I suspect your response was a gut reaction, and not based on any such analysis.</i><br /><br />I looked into claims about Obama's authorship when they first came up. They were not very convincing, and the main person pushing them is a real nutjob.Jeffrey Shallithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12763971505497961430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-57023972338130533192011-10-16T00:12:12.188-04:002011-10-16T00:12:12.188-04:00I suspect your response was a gut reaction, and no...I suspect your response was a gut reaction, and not based on any such analysis.Wosniaknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-2887603973241282162011-10-12T08:25:51.763-04:002011-10-12T08:25:51.763-04:00Wosniak:
Yup, and Shakespeare didn't write hi...Wosniak:<br /><br />Yup, and Shakespeare didn't write his own plays, right?<br /><br />Crackpots are everywhere.Jeffrey Shallithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12763971505497961430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-68650082840907861922011-10-12T05:16:35.785-04:002011-10-12T05:16:35.785-04:00I like Weiss's essay where he notes similariti...I like Weiss's essay where he notes similarities between "Spengler's" and "Goldman's" articles. I wonder if he has done the same analysis between Obama's "Dreams from My Father" and Bill Ayers' "Fugitive Days, A Memoir." He'd find the correlation to be even stronger.Wosniaknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-65192975342050323222011-10-10T18:34:16.570-04:002011-10-10T18:34:16.570-04:00It's difficult to want to read past "self...It's difficult to want to read past "self-styled New Atheists."poughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00892038673638383735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-76357827225126453672011-10-10T17:15:02.306-04:002011-10-10T17:15:02.306-04:00Luke:
I couldn't say. All I know is, I found...Luke:<br /><br />I couldn't say. All I know is, I found it much more interesting and much deeper than any other philosophy book I've ever read.Jeffrey Shallithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12763971505497961430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-19196736165434751352011-10-10T16:52:27.857-04:002011-10-10T16:52:27.857-04:00Thanks for the links
What's the story behind...Thanks for the links<br /><br /> What's the story behind "Darwinism and Human Affairs"? Was it a classic at the time but now overlooked and out of print? Or before its time?Luke Barneshttp://www.phys.ethz.ch/~barnesl/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-52153884944458996232011-10-08T13:19:39.644-04:002011-10-08T13:19:39.644-04:00Neverminding that he's calling 'having mor...Neverminding that he's calling 'having more offspring' altruistic.<br /><br />His point seems to simply be 'secular and religious jews behave differently, its because of their religion'. If altruism was genetic, then they'd both be equally altruistic. <br /><br />Which is obviously stupid.Schencknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-27420377899038049482011-10-08T12:51:37.589-04:002011-10-08T12:51:37.589-04:00Raising children is essential and potentially rewa...Raising children is essential and potentially rewarding work for the parent, the child, and the community. But as far as human altruism is concerned, child-rearing has to be one of the least remarkable manifestations of it. Birds do it. White supremacists do it. Members of terrorist organizations and their many wives do it. It is how you get your genes into the next generation. Hardly an act of selflessness or self-denial. That is some serious special pleading on the part of Goldman to arrive at the conclusion that religious Jews are more altruistic than secular Jews. I suspect he knows it.jellybeannoreply@blogger.com