CategoryScience
What Happens When Science Degenerates Into a Spoils System?
Chemistry prof Anna Krylov forces us to look at that in discouraging detail
Wikipedia Qualifies Its “Pseudoscience” Label re Design in Nature
Not only that but newly launched Grokipedia’s entry seems to be written to actually inform the reader rather than to enlist the reader against the topic
Monday Micro Softy 50: Cutting Through the Cornbread
How did Yuri Senior cut the cornbread into eight identical portions using only three straight cuts?
Wall Street Journal Takes On Science and the Existence of God
In an interview, first author of the new book out of France, Michel-Yves Bolloré, tells a WSJ editor, “We are now in a century where science is the best ally of God.” That’s news
Maturing Toward God: An Update from Charles Murray
It’s significant that the rethinking, in this and other cases, was prompted by evidence from science
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I predict that “Nothing is conscious” will be superseded, among fashionable thinkers, by “Everything is conscious.”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
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