CategoryScience
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
Will “Citation Justice” Be Fair to Science?
Should scientists cite sources for the purposes of social justice or should they cite for information purposes alone?
Podcast: Mind Before Matter: How an Idealist Looks At the World
Bruce Gordon argues that mind is basic to reality and that materialist views of consciousness do not explain what we know about experience or the world
Winds of Change: Skeptic Mag Defends Sex Binary Nature of Humans
It's not Skeptic Magazine that has changed. Rather, a change in our society created a need for a psychologist to come forward there to defend so obvious a proposition
Science Writers Struggle With Reality as Crises Rock Disciplines
A series of recent articles and posts by prominent science and science writing figures leaves me wondering if they know what time it is
When Physicists Clash Over an Allegedly Pointless Universe…
… we end up finding out how much current research appears to be an elaborate waste of public funds
A Biologist Struggles to Understand “Unscientific Wokeness”
Truth, for many people now, is based on social, emotional, or political needs. And major science publications are buying in
Dogmatic Materialism Is a Damaging Attitude for Science
Richard Lewontin, a dogmatic materialist geneticist, seemed certain that epigenetics should be definitively rejected
At The Federalist: Science Is “Catching Up” to Philosophy
David Weinberg points out that traditional descriptions of the powers of our souls are remarkably like what modern neuroscience is revealing to us in the twenty-first century
Taking the Side of Science — But How Do We Know Which One It Is?
In writing that science’s materialism is absolute, Richard Lewontin wrote as one who did not grasp the fatal flaw in his absolutism
Sci Foo Unconference: Horseshoe Crabs, Alchemy and (Of Course) AI
It’s called an “unconference” because attendees do not present papers in pre-organized sessions; they propose topics at the venue and those with most interest are selected
Faith and Science Before Modern Science — a Fresh Look
Winston Ewert offers a surprising look at how Christians debated science theories in the ancient and medieval world
J.P. Moreland: Which Model of the Mind Best Explains Reality?
Moreland notes that the soul's organizing role in the body sounds a lot like what scientists now call information
Methodological Naturalism: Helpful Rule or Hindering Dogma?
If the observable data points to outcomes that natural causes cannot adequately explain, then ruling out supernatural causes from the outset is not scientific humility — it’s dogma
Arguments Against Free Will Viewed as Junk Science?
“No free will” used to be taken for granted as “what science says” but incisive critiques are beginning to pop up
Near-Death Experiences Are Taken More Seriously Now
After reading a recent news article on NDEs, I revisited a book published in 2007 to get some sense of the change