Why evolutionism is a creationist myth
2023-11-27 10:55 Creationists have one unified system for explaining physical reality, for what they consider morality and for the supernatural.  So they imagine their opponents to have something equivalent.
The inevitability of individuality
2023-11-13 11:57 Far too much reasoning presupposes every single member of a group to in principle function in the same way.  There are no mechanisms for making people that mentally similar.  Human minds don’t replicate!
Flying with gravity
2023-10-25 11:09 Flat-earthers usually claim that gravity does not exist.  It is claimed to be incompatible with how things fly.  If gravity makes things fall down everything is supposed to always fall down.
Perspective in real life
2023-10-10 10:41 Something flat-earters have substantially misunderstood is the concept of perspective.  It is not a natural law for light.  Instead, it is a method for depicting things on a flat surface.
The myth of inborn genius
2023-09-28 11:09 I perceive genius as exceptional ability in one’s profession.  Francis Galton claimed this to be hereditary.  In addition to the time period’s primitive knowledge of heritability there is a great weakness in his claim.
Why the race concept is not meaningful
2023-09-27 11:01 I perceive talk about “human races” as if they are believed to have sharp borders.  Within the “races” people are supposed to be genetically homogenous.
What chattel slavery meant in practice
2023-09-22 12:13 There seem to be some confusion between indentured servitude and chattel slavery.  Slaves are called “indentured servants” and indentured servants are called “slaves”.
Why treat sexuality as an evil option?
2023-09-18 10:51 Christian Fundamentalists have a tendency to label normal human sex drive evil.  I think this idea was originally made up by individuals seeing no possibility of ever getting sex themselves.
Progress is possible
2023-07-14 13:09 The countries I see as Western are mostly found in Europe.
How things got worse for some during industrialisation
2023-07-07 12:54 I have previously explained the upbringing conditions applying to many agrarian state societies.  One would think it got better when the Western world started to industrialize.  Certainly, the average started to rise.