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What If God Ruled the World?
As a child in elementary school I already had a reputation among my peers as a Christian. Other kids called me a goody two shoes. Boys would try to get me to swear. One day a boy asked me if I believed God could do absolutely anything.” “Of course,” I replied. “Can he make a…
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Implausible Murder
I’ve become a fan of NCIS. I watch an episode almost every night. I like it. (I’m currently on season 7, so don’t worry about reading any spoilers for a recent episode.) Every once in a while, however, they come up with a plot that is so full of holes, it should never have seen…
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Fundamental Diversity
“That’s just what I complain of,” said Humpty Dumpty. “Your face is that same as everybody has—the two eyes, so—” (marking their places in the air with this thumb) “nose in the middle, mouth under. It’s always the same. Now if you had the two eyes on the same side of the nose, for instance—or…
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Liar’s Paradox
I added a page to my web site about the Liar’s Paradox. I felt it belonged on my web site rather than my blog because it deals with logic and matters of interest to recreational mathematicians. Besides hosting my blog, my web site has a few articles about mathematical curiosities and a couple of puzzles.…
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Presumed Intelligence
Suppose you are walking along a beach and you come across these lines scrawled in the sand: Our vegetable love would grow Vaster than empires and more slow What would you think? That you had received a message from God That some human had been musing on Andrew Marvell’s poetry That some random process of…
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