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Wes Widner on March 29th, 2012

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Wes Widner on August 29th, 2011

Many people today consider government regulation to be a necessary evil. Without government overseeing greedy corporations, the thinking goes, attention to quality, and especially safety, will degrade. It is assumed that government is the only entity with the ability and motivation to look out for the interests of everyone. To help illustrate how faulty the [...]

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Wes Widner on April 5th, 2011

[HT Q Ideas] “We are gradually undoing the stability that God built into our climate system.” If this is true, then what we are saying is that 1. God is a poor designer and 2. that God lied about the durability of the earth, a promise given from Genesis to Revelation. And the supposed scientific [...]

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Wes Widner on April 1st, 2011

I’ve weighed the evidence, listened to the best debaters, and carefully examined the scriptures. And I’ve reluctantly come to the conclusion that I simply can’t believe in it anymore. The most articulate priests and prophets were unable to persuade me of the validity of their position. And they were wholly unable to answer the serious [...]

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If you want to get a good idea of the best way materialists have to deal with the otherwise nihilistic implications of their philosophical system, take a look at this clip from the movie “Rabbit Hole“. I find it interesting how the boy makes the assertion that the notion of parallel universes are 1. infinite [...]

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Wes Widner on March 26th, 2011

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Wes Widner on March 25th, 2011

Blinky™ from Ruairi Robinson on Vimeo. The above video is EXTREMELY well done for a 12 minute short. What makes it even more chilling, however, is how in a recent debate regarding the meaning of life, the question was asked about making sure Asimov’s 3 laws of robotics should be imprinted in all robotics. One [...]

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Wes Widner on March 11th, 2011

[HT Uncommon Descent]

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Wes Widner on March 1st, 2011

In this interview with Mike Wallace circa 1957 Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, laughs at the notion that the earth could sustain the then-current human population growth. Mike Wallace cited a claim made in a study done by James Bonner a California professor who claimed that the earth could sustain a 1/3rd rise in [...]

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