If you still think science can’t get “woke” (and croak), author and retired psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple would ask you to consider the NEJM
Naturalism
At The Conversation: Have humans evolved beyond nature?
Sorry, Manuel. Evolutionary psychologists have “seen through” empathy, etc. It is all just a way to spread our selfish genes. If there is no Out There out there, there is no reason to prefer one morality over another except as a personal preference or political calculation.
“Let’s see them rip up Dr. Neto’s science papers… “
A usually gentle reader writes to say, “If these flappers had any real courage of conviction, they would print sets of every one of the papers and proceed to tear them in half at press conferences, AAAS and Royal Society meetings, on BioLogos videos, etc. Come on Bill Nye! Richard Dawkins! Jerry Coyne! There must be grants for that sort of thing. Templeton? The bar for truth-telling in the public square has been dramatically raised this week.”
Evolution News and Science Today’s take on the Brazil flap
You know, of course, that Brazil is suddenly drowning in ignorance and superstition now that an ID sympathizer has been appointed to head up a higher ed program assessing U standards.
Huge mystery: Why are embryos timed correctly?
The research group can iterate in the greatest detail all the examples of the perfect timing throughout nature, via exquisitely designed controls, but dogma requires them to insist that it is all just an accident. A question arises: Will that requirement become a conceptual handicap?
Coffee!!: A grievance studies hoaxer explains what happened to the New Atheists
We miss the New Atheists. They made absolutely everyone else look so sane and reasonable.
Michael Egnor on why Jerry Coyne can’t actually deny free will
He wants to and he tried to—at a speaking engagement at Williams U. But if he is a meat puppet, well, …
Effort to prove Galileo and Einstein wrong fails
It’s almost as if the universe were governed by mathematical laws designed from outside itself. But we aren’t allowed to conclude that, of course.
Trinity Radio on cosmologist Sean Carroll and ignoring reality
But doesn’t a multiverse cosmologist like Sean Carroll get to pick and choose the reality he prefers from an infinite variety? Who says there is only one reality, the one he doesn’t like?
Materialist skeptic Michael Shermer disses utopia, seeks “protopia” instead
He says what everyone pretty much knows about why serious socialism leads to mass death but he uses the Trolley Problem in Ethics 101 as an image.
Computer scientist asks: Why would philosophers deny that consciousness is real?
Because, says computer scientist and philosopher Bernardo Kastrup, the materialism they are committed to makes no sense and that’s the best they can do
At Salvo: The language barrier with animals is not a “cultural construct”
If human intelligence is an accidental outcropping of the animal world, a sufficiently diligent researcher may expect to find the same intelligence in many other animals. But, so the argument runs, we are too prejudiced to see it.
Yes, Jerry. Split brains are weird, but not the way you think
Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor, who knows some details about the brain, responds: What is most remarkable about these patients is that after the surgery they are unaffected in everyday life, except for the diminished seizures.
Theoretical biologist quit over growing panpsychism, it turns out
In 2012, Italian theoretical biologist Marcello Barbieri resigned as editor of the journal Biosemiotics because he felt that research in this area had become unscientific.
Wow. Panpsychism gets a respectful hearing at Scientific American
Can you imagine that years ago? But the fact is, materialists are out of ideas about consciousness and don’t know where to go.