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There is no shame in believing a lie until you learn the truth.The success of so-called "gay rights" is an amazing triumph of clever deception over simple logic. When it comes to this issue, otherwise intelligent people routinely fall for arguments that just don't hold up under scrutiny. "Gay" sympathizers aren't necessarily more gullible than other people, they are simply tricked into accepting certain conclusions without first examining the underlying premises. He who defines the terms controls the debate -- and by extension, public opinion. On this issue the terms have been defined (in many cases invented) by the talented...

Weapons Under Moore's Law You will never see effective gun control. The NRA is not to blame (or to thank, depending on your point of view). Neither is the Constitution. Technological trends are at work. In the future, the only law that will govern armaments is Moore's Law. Moore's Law says that weapons will get smaller, cheaper, and varied in form. This phenomenon will pose a challenge not just for disarmament advocates, but for all of us. Ray Kurzweil, in The Age of Spiritual Machines, forecasts how the nature of warfare will change as Moore's Law progresses. "[in 2009] warfare...

In our capacity as political scientists, historians, or philosophers we all have had occasion at one time or another to engage in debate with ideologists – whether communists or intellectuals of a persuasion closer to home. And we have all discovered on such occasions that no agreement, or even an honest disagreement, could be reached, because the exchange of argument was disturbed by a profound difference of attitude with regard to all fundamental questions of human existence – with regard to the nature of man, to his place in the world, to his place in society and history, to his...

<p>It seems like half the time I pick up the phone I find myself talking to someone who is trying to convince me that two plus two equals three. The other half the time, someone is trying to convince me that two plus two equals five.</p>

Everyone wants to talk about and theorize about "logic and rationale". Well, then, learn a bit about it, and quit whining when the Demo dogs use it against you and win every time. It just goes to show that the Elitists know their history better than the Conservatives/Republicans, and they will be beat every time, unless they learn history. Does anyone else see the built in lies of the New Nazi Democrat Liars and Propagandist Party, or are ya too NEA educated or too lazy to figure it out to point out these damned lies? It is easy to bitch...

The menu at the Coffee Garden at 900 East and 900 South in Salt Lake City has included a scrumptious selection of quiche for about 10 years. The recipe calls for four fresh eggs for each quiche. A Salt Lake County Health Department inspector paid a visit recently and pointed out that research by the Food and Drug Administration indicates that one in four eggs carries salmonella bacterium, so restaurants should never use more than three eggs when preparing quiche. The manager on duty wondered aloud if simply throwing out three eggs from each dozen and using the remaining nine...

Apple dumps on 70,000 users What are these people like?By Andrew Thomas, 02/07/2002 10:16:42 BSTAPPLE'S MASTERLY BUSINESS SENSE has once again come to the fore. Trumpeting the company's takeover of German pro audio outfit Emagic, which will now operate as an Apple division, the company was obviously concerned that Emagic was far too successful and has immediately taken the axe to 35 per cent of its revenues. Apple says that Mac based products account for over 65 per cent of Emagic's current revenues and that all Windows-based products will be discontinued at the end of September. With a claimed 200,000...

On the Doctrine of the Imago Dei By S. Gannon Murphy - (Man made in the Image of God) Introduction: Perhaps no other doctrine of the Christian faith goes against the philosophical grain of modern sociocultural paradigms as abrasively as the doctrine of man created in the imago Dei. The smoke of controversy and protest encircled around this foundational doctrine can be seen clearly simply by observing the prodigious energies with which the droves of committed secularists propound their naturalistic theories regarding human and cosmological origins. Such materialistic theories run the gamut of ideas from the random, spontaneous generation of...

Excerpt: "With his faulty view of logic, it is not surprising that Van Til believes that the Bible is full of "apparent contradictions". It was Dr. Kenneth Talbot who first introduced me to the writings of Gordon Clark. In seminary I had been taught the Van Tilian system of apologetics, and in comparison with evidentialism, it seemed to be a breath of fresh air. Further, as one Reformed scholar assured me: "To be Reformed is to be Van Tilian, and to be Van Tilian is to be Reformed." Yet, as impolitic as it was to challenge the teachings of Dr....

Also Known as: "You Too Fallacy" Description of Ad Hominem Tu Quoque This fallacy is committed when it is concluded that a person's claim is false because 1) it is inconsistent with something else a person has said or 2) what a person says is inconsistent with her actions. This type of "argument" has the following form: Person A makes claim X. Person B asserts that A's actions or past claims are inconsistent with the truth of claim X. Therefore X is false. The fact that a person makes inconsistent claims does not make any particular claim he makes false...

Description of Ad Hominem Translated from Latin to English, "Ad Hominem" means "against the man" or "against the person." An Ad Hominem is a general category of fallacies in which a claim or argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant fact about the author of or the person presenting the claim or argument. Typically, this fallacy involves two steps. First, an attack against the character of person making the claim, her circumstances, or her actions is made (or the character, circumstances, or actions of the person reporting the claim). Second, this attack is taken to be evidence against...