A Discerning Heart In “Learn to Discern” (2023-08-12), Gunner Q writes that he agrees with the following statement: I, of course, believe that Christians must use their intelligence to try to understand—but not determine[1]—what is, or is not, God’s Word. This is not limited to intelligence—discernment involves one’s entirety of …
This series started life as a series of guest posts back in 2019 on a now defunct blog. Although the series was never completed, I decided to recover and restore it here. The series proposes, from science, the reason for the decline of modern society. The series of the decline …
This is part of a series on patriarchy, headship, authority, and submission. See this index. In the first part of the series, I talked about sanctification in marriage in response to a post at the Sigma Frame blog. I mentioned how the Bible instructs husbands and wives to sanctify—to make holy …
This is the fourth in a series reviewing John C. Wright’s A Universal Apologia for the Catholic Church. See the index. In this part, we continue the discussion on the biblical canon and argue that history and the Roman Catholic’s actions undermined its own authority to determine canon and that the …
This is part of a series on feminism and the decline of society. See this index. This series portrays a bleak picture of societal decline—attributed to (1) declining general intelligence [part 3] (from fertility changes and high mutational load [part 1]), (2) bureaucracy [part 4], (3) feminism [part 5], and (4) cultural changes (e.g. anti-Christianity, anti-patriarchy, anti-excellence). These factors converged around …
“Feminist in her natural habitat” This is part of a series on feminism and the decline of society. See this index. Part 3 showed that a secular decline in general intelligence g (“Nature”) started with the Industrial Revolution.[1] For a time, increasing IQ from environmental changes (“Nurture”) prevented many negative effects from the decline …
“Join the collective. Or else.” Part 3 showed that average IQs have made huge gains while general intelligence (g) has declined. Why worry about falling g? Physical and mental mutations are usually co-morbid.[1][2a] 84% of the human genome involves the brain[3], so a decrease in g means higher physical mutations (e.g. fewer alpha traits). Therefore, g predicts mutational load—something …