Wrong, Wronger, Wrongest

Byhenry December 7, 2009

Isaac Asimov on The Relativity of Wrong. I found this article extremely helpful in explaining theories and how they develop or are replaced. (HT: Abnormal Interests).

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Death of Newspapers = Death of Objective Journalism?
Byhenry December 3, 2009
As if objective journalism was the rule before blogs came along to “steal” newspaper content. I agree with Ed Brayton, who also quotes Radley Balko on this one.
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The Age of the Earth – Not a Minor Difference
Byhenry November 12, 2009
In the good old days when I used to have a seminar on this topic that I used in churches, I had an overhead transparency that showed the age of the earth (along with some of the various geological time periods). This was represented by a line that went the length of the slide. Beside…
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Updating my Bible Version Info
Byhenry January 12, 2008
I still have my Bible version selection tool active, and I’ve just added a directory of recent blog entries on the various versions to my Bible version detail pages. This substantially expands the amount of information available on each version page.
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Science and Replication (or not)
Byhenry May 12, 2016
An article today on FiveThirtyEight says it’s possible that the simple awarding of badges to those who follow certain procedures (openness of data, revealing methodology, etc), may have sparked an increase in these good practices. Or not, of course. The correlation is pretty clear. The causation is somewhat less so. It could be that all…
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New Jersey Wants to Seize Gift Cards
Byhenry January 4, 2011
… if they’re not used after two years. What can possibly make this a good idea? (HT: The Agitator).
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Doxologies in Psalms
Byhenry March 18, 2009
On my Participatory Bible Study blog I asked a question and linked to Bob McDonald (Bob’s Log) in the hope he would answer. He did, in the comments. Read the post for the question, the comments for the answer and supporting data.
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