“The high school textbook’s caricature of scientific method is not just bad philosophy, entirely inadequate to account for scientific practice. It is also bad history… “
Philosophy
But do we really need quantum physics to announce that objective reality doesn’t exist?
Wouldn’t making free, legal pot available accomplish the same intellectual goal?
A short sermon on Einstein’s God
Einstein’s concept of God ruled out free will. At that point, the wheels come off.
Do we need to think beyond current physics to understand nature?
Have we run out of rungs on our current ladder?
Darwinian philosopher Michael Ruse muses on life
He does not really address the fact that most naturalists don’t actually believe that the free will he assumes actually exists.
Is there no self without a soul?
Materialist neuroscience creates big problems. And it is not as if materialists have a big solution that others are stubbornly refusing to acknowledge.
Nathaniel Comfort, fresh off an op-ed in Nature, skewers pop Darwinian Steven Pinker
It’s getting so that Darwinians are being treated like ordinary folk who could actually be wrong about some things. What is the world coming to? Where is Queen Umpadeedle when they need her?
Computer guy/philosopher: AI can’t do abductive reasoning
Abduction is the kind of reasoning ID uses.
In debating Jerry Coyne, Michael Egnor tries philosophy…
Egnor: The Prime Mover argument is the most popular formal argument for the existence of God, and it is often misunderstood and, when understood, often misrepresented. Atheists, in my experience, never get it right. If they did, they wouldn’t be atheists.
Rob Sheldon: Why process philosophy won’t rescue naturalism
“Let me repeat. Physics doesn’t change. And even when discussing the changes (like an oscillation), the physics of change doesn’t change. Somebody is making a serious category error when the physics of change becomes the change of physics.”
Can process philosophy rescue naturalism?
As process theology empties churches, process philosophy will empty classrooms.
If Darwinian biologist Jerry Coyne hadn’t existed, we would have had to invent him
Michael Egnor: A shimmering example of atheist idiocy (there is no other word for it) is Jerry Coyne’s recent argument, at Why Evolution Is True, against God’s existence in his post on David Attenborough’s agnosticism.
Eric Holloway: Can free will be a scientific idea?
In everyday life, we casually throw around the terms “confidence,” “chance,” and “likely.” We sometimes attach numbers too. We say that an event has a 90% chance of occurring. But, what do we mean by a “90% chance”?
New: Another philosopher openly dumps Darwinism, cites its acceptance of deception
Budziszewski is onto something here. In a Darwinian universe, there is no reason not to lie to achieve a survival goal. In the traditional universe, classically assumed to exist by most human civilizations, morality is intrinsic to the nature of the conscious entities of the universe.
New edition of Aeschliman’s Restoration of Man challenges scientism again
But isn’t science on a downward trajectory now anyway? Never mind the multiverse nonsense. What about the war on science and the war on math?