Culture
Michael Ruse lecture makes interesting admission re Darwinism and atheists, agnostics
Commentator Vox Day has some harsh words for E.O’ Wilson’s detractors at Scientific American
Darwinian evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne is getting mugged by reality
Richard Dawkins takes a risk: Sex is binary
Why people don’t trust science any more
Jerry Coyne on the war on math, science, in New Zealand – and falling scores
To what extent is the science we must learn at school materialist propaganda?
Evolutionary biologist Richard Sternberg: Does Darwinian Evolution have direction and purpose?
James Tour vs. Denis Lamoureux on whether evolution is compatible with Christianity
Proving that they are genuine “sceptics,” British group takes on the pieties of climate change
L&FP, 48: [Former?] New Atheist Stefan Molyneaux and his “Universally Preferable Behavior” (2007) illustrate inescapably binding, intelligible and identifiable first duties of reason
I ran across this work, and find an interesting discussion, starting with a fairly roundabout way to show what a first, undeniable principle or truth — branch on which we all must sit stuff — is like:: Given that every human action – including making philosophical statements – is chosen in preference to every other possible action, arguing that preferences do not exist requires a preference for arguing that preferences do not exist, which is a self-contradictory statement. [p. 33] So, next, we have another roundabout way of summarising duties/oughts as universally prefer-ABLE behaviour: The proposition before us is thus: can some preferences be objective, i.e. universal? When I say that some preferences may be objective, I do not mean Read More ›