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  1. Stephen3141

    Campus Demonstrations, and Hamas and Gaza

    ucla-moves-to-shut-down-pro-palestinian-encampment-as-unlawful I am interested in discussion about these topics: 1 What is protected in the American "freedom of speech" 2 How is one American freedom, limited by other American freedoms? 3 How does this co-limitation of values, parallel the way...
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    On Abortion, and Political Parties

    This post follows an article written by Russell Moore, editor of Christianity Today. Christianity Today Editor Rips Republicans For Lacking 'Moral Vision' In Abortion Stances With the cancerous growth of political tribes in America, the true voice of historical Christians is being subsumed by...
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    On the Christian Perception of Our Shared Reality

    (I'll see if this passes the site's basic filtering guidelines. I am concerned about what Christians perceive as our shared reality, lying, and the moral-ethical effects of embracing conspiracy theories.) When Trump demands that all who get his political support, must uphold his lie that the...
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    On Software that is Safe, and Artificial Intelligence

    https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/31/rust_google_c/ This is an OLD debate, in the software development community... Most hardware engineers who wrote in C++, didn't know anything about creating larger class infrastructure. Nor were they interested in writing broad and shallow hierarchies of...
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    On Freedom of Speech, and Moral-Ethical Responsibility

    There are many people who do not seem to understand Moral-Ethical systems, or what a fair rule of law does. This is an issue in understanding God's moral-ethical law, and also the American fair rule of law. For example, in America, there are appeals to "freedom of speech" which (if allowed)...
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    FORMAL LOGIC -- Justifying that Initial Premises are TRUE

    I propose a thread that will discuss ways to "justify" (the philosophical term) that the initial premises used in an argument, are TRUE. I propose this subject, because ... 1 Most of what I would call errors in arguments used by Christian involve differences in basic definitions (premises)...
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    FORMAL LOGIC

    I see a lot of "informal" use of vocabulary that talks about "logic" or "logical" methods. But, I see very few Christians who have thought about modern Symbolic Logic (the basis of the hard sciences), and forms of applied logics that the different scientific disciplines have developed for their...
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    Many of these posts are trivial.

    Philosophy includes the discussion of primary definitions. I find few definitions of terms used, in these posts. In the discussion of morality/ethics, there should be some reference to the ME model that a person embraces. I do not find any references to the ME model that those posting, are...
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    Stephen W

    BA in Classical Languages and Literature, specialization in ancient Greek MS in Computer Science, specialization in Artificial Intelligence I have studied formal logic for 35 years Christian
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    Scientific definitions of "evolution"....

    As the core intelligent Design authors point out, "evolution" as used by the hard sciences is based on random mutation. In original Darwinism, mutation was taken to be happening in the whole biological organism. In Neo-Darwinism, mutation was taken to happen in the DNA of biological organisms...