CategoryScience
On Atheism’s Watch, Rationality in Science Flew Out the Window
Why did atheists, in charge of science during the last few decades, yield the floor to irrational forces?
Why Materialism Will Probably Drift Into Panpsychism
I predict that “Nothing is conscious” will be superseded, among fashionable thinkers, by “Everything is conscious.”
Reviewer Asks: Why Can’t We Just Go Back to Unprovable Faith?
Kathleen Stock’s witty effort to blunt the force of the evidence presented in that new French book, God, the Science, the Evidence, raises a stark question
Clauser at COSM: He Risked His Career to Disprove His Own Thesis
Some physicists risk their careers to discover a truth about our universe that they believe. Clauser DIDN’T believe quantum weirdness but he accepted his results
French Authors Say Science Points to God; Scientists Listen
But, as materialism wanes and religion slowly revives, will many scientists find panpsychism more attractive?
Michael Egnor: Atheism as a “Foreign Influence” on Science
On the Ex-Skeptic show, the neurosurgeon — an ex-skeptic himself — discusses his journey with Jana Harmon, who studies atheists who came to believe in God
Humanists Cancel Steven Pinker’s Lecture Over Trans Issues
The Humanist Society of Australia pulled out of sponsoring his lecture because they linked him with a defense of the idea that humans are male or female
Why the Soul Doesn’t — and Can’t — Weigh Anything
The question has nothing to do with whether or not the soul exists
In What Sense Is Origin of Life From Space a Scientific Question?
We can never know for sure what happened in the remote past. But future discoveries could, in principle, either strengthen or confirm the life from space claim.
Monkey Wrenched: Science & the Specter of Private Truth
The landscape in which science flourishes has greatly changed. A rising power threatens even popular science staples like Darwinism. I call that new power “private truth.”
Science Cancellation Continues: Meet the Latest Victim
Marty Rowland, an editor at the American Journal of Economics and Sociology, has been fired for publishing an article arguing the carbon dioxide and a warming climate are not problems
In What Sense Is Origin of Life a Scientific Question?
Recently, a friend recommended a paper on theories of the origin of life. (Yet another one?) But this one proved most interesting…
Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder Gets Canceled by the Munich Center
Her parting words: “A lot of research [in] the foundations of physics is now pseudocience. It hasn't followed the scientific method for decades.”
Materialism in Science: Touching Another Hot Button
With a discussion of the findings of rigorous research into telepathy, the challenge to the presumption of materialism in science is beginning to be sounded loud and clear
Wall Street Journal: A Disappointing Fret About “Conspiracy Physics”
If physicists are starting to “worry about the consequences” of discussing long-term theory failure, it is reasonable to think that there are even more serious problems within the discipline
Dawkins Watches as Science Skeeters Off a Cliff, Learns Nothing
The decline is mainly due to the loss of traditional insights gained in large part from religion
Artificial Intelligence, Science and the Limits of Knowledge
In Part 3, I show that AI, like science, has limits. It depends on narrowing a problem: making it specific, discarding most possibilities, sealing it inside a representation and specification
What If Science Tried Doing Without Materialism?
In a thoughtful review of The Immortal Mind, John Zmirak points to the way it currently underlies most popular presentations of science