Category: Science
Contest: Who invented the phrase intelligent design?
| March 31, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Intelligent Design, Science |
Charles Darwin uses the term in an 1861 letter, in response to something John Herschel wrote. more
Have conservatives really lost their faith in science?
| March 30, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Science |
Actually, almost no one loses their faith in science when it is evidence-based and useful. Who turns down cancer treatments that work? more
Dalai Lama wins latest Templeton Prize
| March 29, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Religion, Science |
The last Templeton winner was a guy fronting the multiverse, so … maybe they are back on their meds now? more
A.E. Wilder-Smith Interview on Dutch TV from the 1970s
| March 20, 2012 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science |
A.E. Wilder-Smith (1915-1995), though a young-earth creationist, focused on information-theoretic arguments for design that prefigured subsequent work by Charles Thaxton and other ID proponents. Here’s an insightful interview for Dutch TV that he did in the 1970s: more
Haeckel, Mach, and Freud – some interesting connections
| March 20, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Science |
What Freud didn’t have was something equivalent to the Darwin lobby, demanding that the courts enforce teaching his theories. more
Science explains religion? Not. “True religion isn’t natural, sin is natural”
| March 18, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Religion, Science |
But one can turn that around as well: true science isn’t natural, junk science is natural. more
ID friendly Oxford math prof on God and science, on BBC radio
| March 17, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Religion, Science |
Part of a Lenten series. more
Jilted fruit flies drown their sorrows in drink?
| March 17, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, News, Science |
We think these researchers’ treatment idea will work way better for drying out drunk flies than humans. more
From The Best Schools: Why do people listen to scientists offering moral advice?
| March 17, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, News, Science |
Claiming the authority of science …? more
It’s unbelievable that this came from Scientific American
| March 11, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Science |
Well, if home decor is all you want … “star maps, pieces of coral, and brass magnifying glasses—the accoutrements of a fin de siècle science museum. ” more
James Barham at Best Schools fesses up II: Folk psychology is basically correct
| March 11, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, News, Science |
“What we call “beliefs” and “desires” correspond to objective properties of human nature, and hence of the world. ” more
Professional banishment? For fronting facts? No, this isn’t the usual story …
| March 9, 2012 | Posted by News under Intellectual freedom, News, Science |
“Eventually, other geologists joined his cause and filled in the intricate details, …” more
“Science shows”: Wealth could make people unethical
| March 4, 2012 | Posted by News under Ethics, News, Science |
It’s all quite interesting, but there must be better uses for the methodologies of science. more
Interview: Atheist Alain de Botton cases religion’s joint for something worth stealing …
| March 4, 2012 | Posted by O'Leary under Atheism, Culture, Science |
Puffball interviews with atheists often feature the genuine offense to good journalism that is illustrated here. more
“Noble cause” corruption: It’s okay to lie, even in science … ?
| February 29, 2012 | Posted by News under Ethics, Intelligent Design, News, Science |
“t’s a term that originated in law-enforcement to describe a dirty cop who plants evidence on a suspect because he “really knows” that the guy is guilty … ,” more
Best Schools: John Gray on the Cult of Unbelief
| February 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Religion, Science |
“It is not even clear he is really a friend of traditional theistic religion. But he is even more opposed to the religious pretensions of science.” more
“No credible scientific alternative” is the world’s biggest science stopper
| February 25, 2012 | Posted by News under Climate change, Culture, News, Science |
The fact that the vast majority of scientists are in no doubt about something means nothing in the long run. more
Peter Woit on the multiverse as a weapon against religion: “a lousy one and not going to convince anyone”
| February 21, 2012 | Posted by News under Multiverse, News, Science |
Well, if God exists, science follows, but if there are truly no laws, science doesn’t follow. more
Researchers scared to death of the anti-science lobby?
| February 21, 2012 | Posted by News under Climate change, Culture, News, Science |
And if researchers are scared to death, it is us working stiffs they are scared of, really. more
John Gray, in New Statesman: “Religion has caused a lot of harm but so has science”.
| February 21, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Religion, Science |
“To insist that religion is peculiarly malignant is fanaticism, or mere stupidity.” more
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