Category: Scientific Reasoning | Page 15 | Science and Culture Today

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David Klinghoffer

Date
May 31, 2019

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Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
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, __cedited, abstract thought, abstractions, animals, Darwinian theory, humans, Jeffrey Shallit, mathematician, mercy, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, neuroscience}

More on Animals and Their “Reasoning”

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May 31, 2019

Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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Whether your dog can philosophize is not a puzzle you need to look to the Oxford English Dictionary to resolve. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 28, 2019

Categories
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
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, __cedited, atheism, bonobos, evolution, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, multiverse, neuroscience, Paris, professors, satire, Walter Bradley Center}

Egnor Imagines: Professor Terminated; Replaced by Bonobo

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May 28, 2019

Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning

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“The search committee interviewed several apes, three mules, and a tomato plant.” Read More ›

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Author
Marcos Eberlin

Date
May 28, 2019

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Scientific Reasoning
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, __cedited, “nones”, atheism, evidence, foresight, Fred Hoyle, gravitational constant, intelligent design, materialists, naturalism, Nobel laureates, radio, science, speed of light, truth, universe}

The Radio at the Edge of the Universe

_{Marcos Eberlin
May 28, 2019

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics, Scientific Reasoning

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If the universe were a radio and the desired setting allows for life, it would have dozens of dials for setting the values of the universal constants. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 24, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
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, __cedited, abstract thought, atheism, Darwinian mechanism, evolution, Michael Egnor, mind, Mind Matters, physical objects, puppy}

Why Human Reason Didn’t “Evolve”

_{David Klinghoffer
May 24, 2019

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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Egnor: “Think of the irony: a professor of philosophy, who is paid only to reason, uses reason to argue against reason. Welcome to the bowels of atheist metaphysics.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 29, 2019

Categories
Astronomy
Physical Sciences
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __edited, authority, dogmatism, experimentation, Medieval Europe, Medieval science, Michael Keas, Middle Ages, Moon, Myth of the Dark Ages, natural philosophy, prejudices, Roger Bacon, science, secularists, Unbelievable, universities}

“No Astronomical Investigations of Importance” in the Middle Ages? Not True!

_{David Klinghoffer
January 29, 2019

Astronomy, Physical Sciences, Scientific Reasoning

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Michael Keas offers an important corrective to falsehoods that students are still learning at this very moment. Read More ›

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Author
Mike Keas

Date
January 22, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __cedited, Age of Reason, Arabic, atheism, cathedrals, Euclid, eyeglasses, Galileo Galilei, Greek, Jerry Coyne, Johannes Kepler, Latin, Myth of the Dark Ages, Ptolemy, Roger Bacon, Rome, Saint Augustine, scientific revolution, Unbelievable, universities}

Atheism’s Myth of a Christian Dark Ages Is Unbelievable

_{Mike Keas
January 22, 2019

Faith & Science, Mathematics, Scientific Reasoning

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Did Christianity really drag the West into an anti-scientific “Dark Ages,” a period said to stretch from the fall of Rome to 1450 AD? Read More ›

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Date
November 28, 2018

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __cedited, Charles Darwin, clockmaker, cosmic fine-tuning, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Edinburgh, Flying Spaghetti Monster, instinct, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, life, natural theology, physicists, rationality, Richard Dawkins, software, universe, vitalism, watchmaker}

Intelligent Design and the Logic of Hume’s Skepticism

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November 28, 2018

Biology, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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Many remember David Hume as a pioneering freethinker who saw through the superstition and sectarian dogmatism of religion. Read More ›

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Date
October 7, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
Scientific Reasoning
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, __cedited, C.S. Lewis, creativity, Declaration of Independence, Discovery Institute, FreedomFest, George Gilder, history, Human Zoos, John West, knowledge, Ota Benga, personhood, Peter Singer, Racism, Richard Weikart, science, technocracy, Thomas Jefferson, totalitarian science}

Totalitarian Science: Past, Present, and Future?

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October 7, 2018

Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution, Scientific Reasoning

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When science is considered the only route to knowledge, scientific experts are given the right to rule, and science becomes totalitarian. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 16, 2018

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __cedited, "survival of the fittest", Alfred Russel Wallace, architecture, Charles Darwin, consciousness, Darwinian theory, evolution, exaptation, human beings, ID the Future, intelligence, Kenneth Miller, Michael Flannery, Mike Keas, natural selection, podcast, Richard Lewontin, Stephen Jay Gould, textbook, The Human Instinct, Wesley Smith}

Human Exceptionalism — An Evolutionary Dilemma

_{David Klinghoffer
July 16, 2018

Biology, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Scientific Reasoning

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Following Darwin, with an assist from Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin, Ken Miller proposes that human reason, consciousness, etc. are exaptations, or “spandrels.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 21, 2018

Categories
Biochemistry
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __cedited, __image, Center for Science and Culture, evolution, Finland, Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, junk DNA, Matti Leisola, nature, origins, podcast, Stephen Hawking, University of Helsinki, worldview}

Jonathan Witt, Matti Leisola, and the “Line of Despair”

_{David Klinghoffer
March 21, 2018

Biochemistry, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning

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Francis Schaeffer described what he called the “line of despair,” an assumption that faith and reason are separated from each other permanently. Read More ›