Type post Date July 29, 2016 CategoriesPlanetologyRare EarthScientific Reasoning Tagged , __tedited, advanced life, alien intelligence, alien life, communication, complex life, design detection, extra-terrestrial intelligence, Extra-Terrestrial Life, materialism, occult, preconditions, probabilities, research funding, science fiction, SETI, signal, space aliens, space exploration After Fifty Years of Searching for ETs, Materialists Won’t Take No for an Answer Science and Culture July 29, 2016 Planetology, Rare Earth, Scientific Reasoning 9 If your idea is that life on Earth is nothing special, it follows that life should be plentiful in the cosmos. Read More ›
Type post Author Granville Sewell Date July 27, 2016 CategoriesPaleontologyScientific Reasoning Tagged , __tedited, "survival of the fittest", biodiversity, common descent, common design, convergence, human consciousness, methodological naturalism, missing links, paradigms Why Similarities Do Not Prove the Absence of Design Granville Sewell July 27, 2016 Paleontology, Scientific Reasoning 8 A future paleontologist would be puzzled by the huge differences between the bicycle and motor vehicle phyla, or between the boat and airplane phyla. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date July 26, 2016 CategoriesBioethicsLegal Science (jurisprudence)Scientific Freedom Tagged , __k-review, Nation, News Criminal Prosecution as a Cudgel Against Dissenters Wesley J. Smith July 26, 2016 Bioethics, Legal Science (jurisprudence), Scientific Freedom 1 The Planned Parenthood prosecution of David Daleiden and a colleague was a particularly egregious example of this authoritarianism. Read More ›
Type post Author Sarah Chaffee Date July 22, 2016 CategoriesEvolutionLegal Science (jurisprudence)Science Education Tagged , __k-review, Nation, News The Lowdown on the Louisiana Science Education Act Sarah Chaffee July 22, 2016 Evolution, Legal Science (jurisprudence), Science Education 1 It's ironic that a law aimed at clarifying science for students should provoke so much obfuscation from its critics. Read More ›
Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date July 21, 2016 CategoriesScientific Reasoning Tagged , __tedited, argument from authority, design intuition, feelings, logical fallacies, persuasion, public opinion, scientific debate, skepticism, tribalism, trust in scientists, Undeniable (book) Scientists Aren’t Exempt from Feelings, Any More Than the Public Is David Klinghoffer July 21, 2016 Scientific Reasoning 6 And no, that's not entirely a bad thing. Read More ›
Type post Author Sarah Chaffee Date July 19, 2016 CategoriesPhilosophy of Science Tagged , __tedited, ethicists, eugenics, relativism, scientism, scientocracy, Social Darwinism Yes, There Can Be Science Without Scientism, and Without Relativism Sarah Chaffee July 19, 2016 Philosophy of Science 4 Can we reject the confines of pure materialism without rejecting the information-value of data? Read More ›
Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date July 13, 2016 CategoriesEvolutionFaith & ScienceScience EducationScientific Freedom Tagged , __k-review, science, Undeniable (book) Perfect Illustration of Why We Need Undeniable David Klinghoffer July 13, 2016 Evolution, Faith & Science, Science Education, Scientific Freedom 1 Did any religious body ever insist more completely on placing blind faith in the doctors of the church? Read More ›
Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date July 7, 2016 CategoriesEnvironment & ClimateEvolutionScientific Freedom Tagged , __k-review, News, Politics, science “Anti-Science” Is Increasingly Turned Against Its Creators David Klinghoffer July 7, 2016 Environment & Climate, Evolution, Scientific Freedom 1 The "anti-science" label is like Frankenstein's monster. Read More ›
Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date July 6, 2016 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent DesignScience EducationScientific Freedom Tagged , __k-review, Nation, News Evolution’s Enforcers Are Waaaaay Out of Step with Public Opinion David Klinghoffer July 6, 2016 Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science Education, Scientific Freedom 1 The bullies may fully reign on campuses, but only there. Read More ›
Type post Author William A. Dembski Date July 6, 2016 CategoriesPaleontologyScientific Reasoning Tagged , __tedited, biogeography, cherry-picking fallacy, common ancestry, convergence, design motifs, empirical evidence, evolutionary time, file drawer problem, fossil record, Foundation for Thought and Ethics, genetics, geological time, incomplete lineage sorting, lineages, promotions, structural motif, suppressed evidence, timeline, transitional links Why Fossils Cannot Demonstrate Darwinian Evolution William A. Dembski July 6, 2016 Paleontology, Scientific Reasoning 10 There are three fundamental problems with all examples of inferring Darwinian evolution on the basis of fossil evidence. Read More ›
