23,000 children will starve to death today.HT: Pete Roode
Another 23,000 tomorrow.
Another 23,000 the day after…. Another….
If God doesn’t listen to their prayers, what makes you think he will listen to yours?
The Bible has held my attention for a long time and I think it will for the foreseeable future.
Hah, this reminds me of last night's random Web browsing that led me...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 2 hours ago
Ehrman is a millionaire.
Ah, good point, I hadn't thought of that. According to DuckAI:
Bart Ehrman's net worth is estimated to be between two and...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 2 hours ago
You feel less safe in a neighborhood that produces a higher rate of chalk outlines.
Nitpick: I am sure you know that the police does not use chalk outlines in real life....
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 2 hours ago
I came to the conclusion some time ago that the human species is just too deeply flawed for long term survival. I expect we will drive ourselves to extinction just like the 99% or so of all the...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 2 hours ago
High school dropouts pay up.
Unless their crime was insurrection, then Trump pardons them for attacking police officers.
Billionaires in the Epstein Files skate...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 2 hours ago
Intelligence and education are hardly predictors of probity.
Actually they are, in a statistical sense. What you probably mean instead of "hardly predictors" is...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 3 hours ago
Another question is: where will people be who are stupid enough to fall for the frauds of religion and science denial? Until now, the bar has been set pretty low by the average human IQ. In the job...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 3 hours ago
Citing Linus Pauling mistaken beliefs, is the fallacy of whataboutery. Pauling was even more mistaken than Ehrman. History is not an exact science. Intelligent folk mistakenly holding silly beliefs...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 5 hours ago
No objection from me to this, but I don't see the distinction you are trying to make.
The distinction I'm trying to make, is that Ehrman reasoned his way out of...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 6 hours ago
It's possible to find some people at all ages who change their minds on things.
I never said it wasn't. The implication is, that Ehrman has had the evidence and...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 8 hours ago
This is just getting started. Where will this be in fifty years? A hundred?
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 9 hours ago
True, dat.
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 10 hours ago
" I've often wondered who would be in control of the world if cats had hands."
Wouldn't matter, the cats would still be in control.
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 11 hours ago
The advent of the Internet created a slew of billionaires - Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and a handful of others. If history repeats itself, AI will produce another slew of billionaires...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 16 hours ago
Musk came in with a lot of money, bought companies he didn't start with tech he didn't invent, has an army of engineers and technicians who do the lift, and suddenly he's a genius....
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 22 hours ago
AI appears to be the creation of our Silicon Valley cyberdudes, and if "social" media like Facebook Farcebook is dropping any clues, there's pretty clearly ample room for...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 23 hours ago
Ah yes, the old joke about a man with no education who might go hungry and rob a train car for food. Give the man an education, and he'll steal the railroad. (Edited to add: quotation...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 23 hours ago
Because presently AI is no better than Wikipedia as a learning tool.
For me, AI is better than Wikipedia in several ways - and Gemini at least has improved very noticeably...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 23 hours ago
The man is 69 year old. There has been a number of hypotheses as to why he is so obtuse on this subject to the point of militancy against his peers, and making nonsense shite up that he...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 1 day ago
And while there is a well-attested concept of "g" in psychometry (the general observation that when people score well or poorly on one kind of cognitive test, they tend to score...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 1 day ago
Danial, his brain circuits were shaped by decades of repeating the idea that there was a real God. He recognized the evidence that debunked that thinking. He also recognized that the...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 1 day ago
Of course. The question of whether or not some sort of historical jesus existed is completely immaterial to the question of whether anything supernatural exists. If it were possible to disprove a...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 1 day ago
Not an expert on the subject -- obviously. But if the creation mirrors the creators, then Houston, we may have a problem. AI appears to be the creation of our Silicon Valley cyberdudes, and if...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 1 day ago
"What did you expect, given its parentage?"
Exactly — and that’s why the ethical responsibility lies not with the machine, but with its makers. An AI doesn’t...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 1 day ago
The answer to the first question acknowledges that it is a topic of considerable scholarly debate regarding its authenticity. While some scholars argue for a wholly authentic or...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 1 day ago