A Refutation of Yankee Slanders

A Refutation of Skeptical Theism

A Refutation of Skeptical Theism David Kyle Johnson The evidential problem of evil suggests that our awareness of the existence of seemingly unjustified evils reduces the epistemic probability of God’s existence. Arguments to this effect have been most famously and successfully championed by William Rowe. 1 His defense of the argument has developed over the years, but the basics of the argument...

Sam Harvey Yankee Surgeon—Philosopher

The Refutation of Idealism

Modern Idealism, if it asserts any general conclusion about the universe at all, asserts that it is spiritual. There are two points about this assertion to which I wish to call attention. These points are that, whatever be its exact meaning, it is certainly meant to assert (1) that the universe is very different indeed from what it seems, and (2) that it has quite a large number of properties w...

A Refutation of the Commodity Exploitation Theorem

This note is to show that the generalized commodity exploitation theorem put forward by Bowles and Gintis (1981) and Roemer (1982, 1986) is nothing but an alternative form of the Hawkins-Simon condition for a given technical data, and that it has nothing to do with exploitation. That is, the Hawkins-Simon condition means a mere possibility of an economic system to produce a surplus in each comm...

The long arms of anencephaly: A refutation.

A paper published in 1925 reported that human fetuses with anencephaly have arms that are longer than normal. This finding was accepted as true through the early 1990s. An analysis of body dimensions done in 1996 and enlarged and updated here shows that the arms of human fetuses with anencephaly are appropriate for gestational age and normal in proportion to their leg lengths. A subtle differen...