Gregory Chaitin on the dead hand of bureaucracy in science
Fine tuning of the universe: The strong force and the fine structure constant
Another evidence-free whoop for the multiverse
Interact with your ID faves in the Trinity College webinars — but book soon!
Michael Egnor’s thought experiment on partial brain transplants
Can cryogenics (freezing at death) preserve memories or consciousness?
Wikipedia presents pseudo-“knowledge” [fake “knowledge”?] on ID, yet again
In discussing implication logic and first duties, Wikipedia on ID came up yet again. The lead’s manifest failure to be responsibly objective, descending into slander from the outset, speaks volumes: Intelligent design (ID) is a pseudoscientific argument for the existence of God, presented by its proponents as “an evidence-based scientific theory about life’s origins”.[1][2][3][4][5] Proponents claim that “certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection.”[6] ID is a form of creationism that lacks empirical support and offers no testable or tenable hypotheses, and is therefore not science.[7][8][9] The leading proponents of ID are associated with the Discovery Institute, a Christian, politically conservative think tank Read More ›