Explainaways protect the system from unwanted evidence by ignoring or dismissing it. But when the weight of such evidence grows, they stop sounding persuasive.
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What these speculations point to is the way new findings have destroyed classical materialism. Materialism isn’t so much dying out as breaking up.
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Shermer’s coverage of issues like the design inference and irreducible complexity is embarrassingly shallow.
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Materialist theories intended to explain away NDEs need only sound plausible and scientific; they need not enlighten. A new one will be along shortly anyway.
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At last, the end of materialism escapes the lecture room; it becomes a story about real people in real time in the midst of a civilizational struggle.
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Initially, many scientists felt that non-locality or “action at a distance” was too spooky to be correct. But it is correct.
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A downloadable audio file is available from Humanize of an interview with Olivier Bonnassies, author with Michel-Yves Bolloré of God: the Science, the Evidence (2025).
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We seem a long way now from the once-dominant science view of eliminative materialism in which even human consciousness was not considered real.
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Science is incompatible with the onslaught of post-modernism. A major rift in biology may be looming straight ahead.
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The reason medical researchers now take NDEs seriously is a growing body of evidence that can’t just be tossed off with a simple explanation.
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I was hardly prepared for what Bolloré and Bonnassies reveal about efforts to discredit the idea of a beginning to the universe — by any means necessary.
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Despite a swamp of scandals, the focus of discussion seems to be getting the public to trust again, not reform of the system.
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But today, the serious problem is not modernism and scientism, which are fading. It is post-modernism, which rejects reason and evidence.
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On ID, it sounds like Grokipedia, unlike Wikipedia, follows the time-honored rule of letting people explain themselves and saving the commentary for later.
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Michael Egnor adds that classical philosophers defined love as “willing the good of the other,” not merely liking someone and Stephen Post agrees.
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Science itself is being deplatformed by Woke relativism, developed by the very people who found atheists quite thought-provoking and fashionable.
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Why are we asked to discredit the evidence of fine-tuning of the universe? Why is such an antirealist message coming from science?
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The episode is part of a much broader picture: When private truth beats public truth, ideology quickly overrules science.
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Dr. Duncan MacDougall’s attempts to weigh the soul were ingenious as well as controversial but he misunderstood the soul’s nature.
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The relational model has practical consequences. It considers flourishing as less about “me” and more about “we.”
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