“So-called neutrality is really bad-faith authoritarianism. Whatever view succeeds in passing itself off as neutral wins without making a case for itself.” Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Category: Science
Active Matter: How Function Determines Structure
As always, the approach of naturalism is to reduce the complexity of natural phenomena to basic physical laws. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
A Goldilocks Universe, Designed for Us: New Film in Theaters on April 30
As philosopher Timothy McGrew puts it, we live in a universe “bearing everywhere the fingerprints of its Creator.” Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Evolution: What Is in a Word? (Hint: Not Much)
Since the entire non-living universe contains far less information content than a single living cell, life presents an enigma to materialism. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
In Latest Statement from a University, Tree Rights Advocacy Is Based on Irrationality
We protect trees and woodlands with laws and regulations without resorting to irrational ideological justifications and materially impeding human thriving. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Bayesian Methodology and the Fine-Tuning Argument
To use Clark Glymour’s example, Einstein’s general theory of relativity explained the anomalous precession of Mercury’s perihelion. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
High Confidence? Low Confidence? Six Criteria for Science Claims
To illustrate the difference between high and low confidence science, Rob Stadler shares a humbling story from his career in medical devices. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Research Reveals Elephant’s Amazing Sense of Touch
Elephants can turn over a jeep and pull down a tree, but they can also pick up a potato chip without breaking it. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Darwin’s Doubts, and Their Philosophical Implications
Charles Darwin thus appears to us more modern than his present-day disciples, whose unbending materialism comes closer to that of Erasmus Darwin. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Darwinism’s Attack on the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God
Needless to say, this new view of morality is toxic to the Founders’ understanding of liberty. Source Read More Science and Culture Today