It’s up to the people who still think, if only as a hobby, to unsettle some “science.” And keep it unsettled.
Naturalism
The Onion takes a stab, so to speak, at design theory
Calculus co-inventor Leibniz resisted Newton’s account of gravity because it assumes that forces act at a distance. Which means that there is no apparent material cause.
Scientism is to science what egotism is to ego
With the same outcome for popularity, it seems.
Coffee!! Materialist blasts “social conditioning” claims about gender
Seriously, materialism goes down well in many quarters in part because it is usually combined with a progressive political outlook that would justify infanticide but revolt against Schwaab’s views on brain and gender.
The Edge thinksite asks, What scientific idea is ready for retirement?
In the old folks’ home of ideas
Reflecting on Jacques Monod: From materialism to multiverse?
One wonders what Monod would have made of the multiverse. He died of leukemia during a period when it is fair to say that it was still ”a fringe interest of dubious scientific validity“. Because evidence still mattered back then.
Popular Science weighs in on the concept of a virgin birth
Accounts in the New Testament insist that the birth of the Christ Child was explicitly not a natural event. See Matthew and Luke. So just about anything Popular Science has to say on the topic is irrelevant.
Elves get Icelandic highway project shelved
Wipe that snicker off your face. You have no better reason, really, for believing that They’re Out There. Physicist Paul Davies— himself head of a group charged with figuring out what to do if aliens are spotted (the SETI Post-Detection Taskgroup)—has explained, “It’s now fashionable to say that the universe is teeming with life, but there is not a shred of evidence.”
The Science Fictions series at your fingertips – origin of life
Life is a state, an experience, that everyone has and thinks they can recognize in other people and things. Yet no one can define it.
The Science Fictions series at your fingertips – cosmology
We are told that naturalism (materialism) in science only says, “You can’t study God.” In reality, naturalism does way more. The popular science media is a good place to observe that. The main thing it does is replace evidence with theory.
The Science Fictions series at your fingertips: the human mind
While Darwin may have doubted the fully naturalized mind and felt horrid, most of his latter-day supporters believe and feel good. And their faith is unshakeable.
The Science Fiction series at your fingertips – human evolution
For all practical purposes, today’s humans are orphans, seeking our roots via scraps and artifacts, many of unknown authenticity or significance.
What do we get when “science’s” view owes nothing to evidence?
The conventional picture of methodological naturalism (MN) is simply wrong. MN, far from letting evidence rule, actually discounts evidence and substitutes consensus based on its premises. The multiverse is but one example.
Methodological naturalism does far more than “not study the supernatural.”
To understand the role of methodological naturalism, we need to see the full picture, not only what it forbids, but what it permits and encourages. And what their evidence status is.
Science can be done “by ignoring God,” but what follows? — a response to Torley
Science “done without God” needs no evidence and need not even make sense. it just needs a number of key people to agree that it is “science.”