Well if movies and Terry Pratchett have taught me anything then I know that odds of 1,000,000 to 1 come up about 9 times out of 10. The tricky part is getting the odds to *exactly* one million to one… (View Post)

One use of the Divine is to provide a basis for other assumptions (e.g. Descartes starts with a proof of God's existence.) Hume argues that statements about truth - 'is' and statements about values -… (View Post)

In some ways I'm a little jealous of the Mueller inquiry, it is hard to know how much effort the British security services are actually putting into investigating the links between Farage, Assange et… (View Post)

I'm surprised no-one has gotten around to mentioning the Prime Directive yet ;). The asymmetrical power dynamic is an problematic aspect.... This debate has some parallells to the US steaming into Ja… (View Post)

It always fascinates me when Americans refer to the "left". It seems to roughly translate as "slightly right of centre" from a European perspective ;). (View Post)