Naturalism
Is this the beginning of deplatforming Stephen Hawking or of an honest evaluation?
Math paradoxes show us that the world we live in is not and cannot be purely naturalist
Is the mind just a program run by the brain?
Larry Krauss at Quillette on Woke science
NASA stresses naturalist origin of life to kids
Researchers: Only “luck” prevented Earth from being wiped out
A science writer offers some interesting thoughts on free will
Fun: The Babylon Bee’s guide to being Woke
Carl Sagan: Did he pack “3 lies into 12 words”?
Michael Egnor: Materialists misrepresent Libet’s research on free will
What we don’t know about the universe, according to New Scientist
Back to Georges Lemaitre, a Catholic priest: A CENTURY ago, if you asked a cosmologist the universe’s age, the answer may well have been “infinite”. It was a neat way to sidestep the question of how it formed, and the idea had been enshrined in 1917 when Albert Einstein presented his model of a static universe through his general theory of relativity. General relativity describes gravity, the force that sculpts the universe, as the result of mass warping its fabric, space-time. In the mid-1920s, astrophysicist George Lemaître showed that according to the theory, the universe wasn’t static but expanding– and would thus have been smaller in the past. Stuart Clark, “Everything we know about the universe – and a few Read More ›
Darwinian biologist Jerry Coyne continues to worry about astrology, this time at the New York Times
He seems to have started noticing recently when astrology was touted at the Guardian and the Globe and Mail: In the past couple of days we’ve seen the Guardian tout astrology twice, and now the Globe and Mail. What I’d forgotten is that the New York Times has also been doing it occasionally—certainly more often than the Paper of Record should. For evidence, see Greg Mayer’s survey last year of the NYT’s treatment of astrology. As Greg said: I did a search at the Times’ website for “astrology”, and the results were intriguing, verging on appalling. The first 9 results were all supportive of astrology; and all had appeared since since July 2017. Many treated astrology as a “he said, Read More ›