Why do people like Hossenfelder feel they need to honor Darwinism’s rotting carcass?
Science
Paul Nelson on methodological naturalism and scientists who don’t believe in it
Nelson: Now, you may think MN is unnecessary, or even unsound, for the practice of science. (Another time, I hope to discuss the surprising fact that many atheist scientists and philosophers disagree strongly with MN, when MN is proclaimed as an unconditional rule.) The National Academy, however, is not listening to you, nor are federal courts,
COVID 19: John Ioannidis, scourge of trashy science studies, responds to critics
We still urgently need a serious discussion about the role of the “science” expert, as we survey the ruins of our economy. How is that expert different from the crystal ball reader?
Ioannidis, the opponent of bad science studies, risks Unpersonhood
On account of stuff he said that is mostly correct and even obvious but exposes the cult of the science expert.
Another stab at Are Viruses Alive?
Hugh Harris: “Some properties of living things are absent from viruses, such as cellular structure, metabolism (the chemical reactions that take place in cells) and homeostasis (keeping a stable internal environment).” And yet, as he goes on to say…
Einstein’s lost hypothesis is being retested
There were setbacks.
Jonathan Bartlett: Twenty Years on, Aliens Still “Cause Global Warming”
Some people may still think that “science” is whatever gets published in a journal. Not any more, that’s for sure.
Why not to trust “science” just now: COVID-19 edition
We’ve been hearing complaints about Lancet and other journals for years. Trust but verify. “Science” is a discipline, not an incantation.
Asked at Areo Magazine: Did the Catholic Church give birth to science?
The Church recovered the classical academy—Plato and Aristotle and so forth. As for unfettered debate, under university atheism, it is becoming nearly extinct in many faculties, due to disbelief in the reality of the mind.
Michael Egnor asks re COVID-19: How much of the science knowledge is fake?
Um, yes. A lot of people who want, for whatever reason, to survive and thrive, are going to have a lot of questions hereafter about the thousand shrieking heads of “consensus science.”Before, it wasn’t about anything that mattered so much to us. But, surveying the ruins now…
The four percent human mouse? A classic in pop science
Preisser: Actually, this experiment runs counter to what one ought to expect if the evolutionary paradigm were actually true.
When science enslaves instead of liberating
Many of us try to stay well clear of the COVID crazy but this rabbi certainly speaks for many when he dares to question a bit of the crazy, shouting out a warning about “science”
Vague words in science: Vague or plague?
The worst part of witch hunts in science is that they so often involve controversies over words without precise definitions,
Ravi Zacharias (1946–2020)
The late Ravi Zacharias’s wildly popular encounter with an atheist scientist.
Michael Egnor: Materialism is easily falsifiable by science
Egnor: Cosmological singularities, such as black holes and the singularity from which our universe arose, are wholly supernatural. That is, they are undefined in any materialist/naturalist framework.