The most famous example of a self-refuting statement that I know is: "Nothing is absolutely true." Of course, the statement itself cannot then be true ( Read more... )

Everytime I think I am going to return to my old schedule of 4 public posts a week, I get sidetracked by some 100 -comment discussion on someone else's blog -- this time, essius'....

In response to my last entry, I thought I would post on why I do not like Greek and Roman mythology, and why I do like the mythologies of Tolkien or even Gilgamesh. These ( Read more... )

continuing a trend in entries on oft misused terms...

I may well have covered all of this in detail before, but here goes, anyhow, just in case:

It bothers me today that words are left so undefined in the current media debate between evolution and intelligent design. I have already covered the misuse of the latter term[1]; tonight (or rather, ( Read more... )