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Thank you Mr. Stak. I don't mean to derail with something out of scope then, but do either you or EA know when the idea of "Eyewitness testimony" in EV circles cropped up for the first time? I did a quick search and found a book by Craig in 1994 Reasonable Faith ( A reasonable leap into t...

MrStack, This is quite some research you've done. I'm not sure where you're going with it, and I apologize if I'm interrupting the journey, but your discussion made me feel as if there's a heck of a lot of post-hoc redaction going on. More on that later, but could you help me understand one point? ...

I am mixed on “why “ he is a Lolcows, he certainly seem to fit the definition, but the why has got me perplexed? Where does insecurity fit into this. I can’t help but seeing a very insecure person in Daniel. One who needs the be the smartest in the room, and it constantly reinforced. Bragging about...

Dr. Scratch, You pay me too highly in compliments. I should mention that Reverend Kishkumen and Dean Robbers have gently been encouraging me to reorganize and publish some of my notes as a way of preparing myself for that looming defense date. Mr. Stak: This is an excellent thread, and I'm very much...

(Post Track: Coal Miner's Daughter ) There are three basic traits about himself that Daniel wants to communicate to anyone who encounters his online oeuvre. They are in short order, his rapacious intelligence, sardonic wit, and his polemical skills. I daresay that the majority of his apologetic writ...

Everybody Wang Chung wrote:It might be Seattle Ghost Writer again.

God I had forgotten about that debacle.

(Post Track: Kulning - Ancient Swedish Herdingcall ) This is a thread about Daniel C. Peterson. A famous and somewhat enigmatic fragment from the ancient Greek poet Archilochus says that “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” It is my professional obligation, as a scholar...

Consider this my mega-thread on the Mormon Apologist Daniel Peterson, a multi-post thread that will serve as a home to a series of mini-essays I’ve been thinking about doing for some time. I’ve decided to link them thematically and organize them in one place here at MDB as opposed to elsewhere becau...

Brian Dale wrote:And the methodology is rather basic so a bunch of formal lemmas would have been “lipstick on a pig”.

I can't overemphasize how odious I think this attitude is. Why even bother to write a 100+ page essay in the first place?

Except that their errors are not just stylistic. The authors specifically ruled out the universal event Ω being considered by their own definitions, in fact, they stated it would be dishonest to extend their set beyond A, which they are defining and therefore limiting to a subset of the universal e...