“The category ‘mainstream science’ sounds plausibly neutral, capturing the sort of objective knowledge to which any well-educated adult should assent.” Source Read More Evolution News
Category: Science
Doctor’s Diary: Evolution in the Country of the Blind
Fans of H. G. Wells are probably familiar with his 1904 short story, “The Country of the Blind.” Source Read More Evolution News
Here Is How to Teach Intelligent Design to Young People
The first principle is helping participants discover the evidence for design themselves. Source Read More Evolution News
Allostery: How Cells Do Remote Control
Cells have perfected action at a distance: not by magic, but by control of distant sites through carefully arranged functional intermediates. Source Read More Evolution News
Science and Scientism: The Prophetic Vision of C. S. Lewis
This essay has argued that Lewis was prophetic as regards the advent of techniques powerful enough to bring about the effects he feared. Source Read More Evolution News
C. S. Lewis and Critical Reactions to Transhumanism
I will briefly review two prominent voices in the opposition camp who reflect concerns at the heart of C. S. Lewis’s own case. Source Read More Evolution News
The Stairway to Life Is Really a Cliff
Many of the “stairway steps” that have to be mounted for chemistry to become biology must, very inconveniently, happen all at once. Source Read More Evolution News
C. S. Lewis and Contemporary Transhumanism
The vision of technologically enhanced posthumanity arises out of a synthesis of scientific culture’s most robust mythologies. Source Read More Evolution News
C. S. Lewis, Science, and Science Fiction
Was C. S. Lewis an enemy of science? The apparent answer to this question is no. Source Read More Evolution News
Why C. S. Lewis Wrote The Abolition of Man
Lewis’s deep suspicion of modernist educational projects, subjectivism about morality, and progressive scientific planning animates these lectures. Source Read More Evolution News