Nature doesn’t owe us a life-friendly environment. There are far more ways the universe could have developed that are non-conducive to life. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Category: Science
Does This Philosophical View Solve the Problem of Eliminative Materialism?
Instead of insisting on the absurdity that nothing is conscious, a scientist can maintain materialism by holding that everything is conscious. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
PBS Forgot to Ask Biologist Richard Sternberg About Cetacean Evolution
The smooth narrative of the documentary is expected to carry the viewer along, not asking any questions. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Evolution Is Due to Evolution: PBS “Explains” Dolphin Intelligence
The only lame excuse for an actual explanation of what “drives” it all is “chance”: “the chance events that rewired ancient brains.” Source Read More Science and Culture Today
How Rare Is Earth? Ask Intelligent Design
Will the Nancy Roman Space Telescope help us find other habitable worlds elsewhere in our galaxy? Absolutely. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
How Intelligent Design Enriches Space Exploration
I am delighted to begin a two-part conversation with physicist Dr. Bijan Nemati about his work on the Nancy Roman Space Telescope. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
What Is a Person, and How Do We Know?
The characteristics invoked in the abortion debate — consciousness, rationality, and intrinsic human dignity — function as recalcitrant facts for naturalism. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Tonight on NOVA: From “These Tiny Little Mistakes” — Evolution!
“Life continues to create itself,” “evolution is entirely built on these tiny little mistakes.” Source Read More Science and Culture Today
With Our Exceptional Place in Nature, Human Reason Is Much More than Machine “Reason”
Skeptical Hume held that “Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions,” and can “never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.”…
Improved Social Science? Don’t Laugh, It Could Happen
The theme is not unfamiliar: neither the falsehood nor the reasons for it are news. But three efforts at reform are worth knowing about. Source Read More Science and Culture…