Type post Author Michael Egnor Date August 1, 2016 CategoriesFaith & ScienceNeuroscience & MindPhilosophy Tagged , __tedited, free will, Jerry Coyne, justice, metaphysics, moral agency Jerry Coyne: “Reason Is No Different from a Kick” Michael Egnor August 1, 2016 Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy 3 The boundary between free will denial and impairment of reality-testing is difficult to discern. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date August 1, 2016 CategoriesNeuroscience & MindPhilosophy Tagged , __tedited, agency, causation, determinism, free will, methodological materialism, mind, natural causes, probabilities Causation and the Free Will Debate Michael Egnor August 1, 2016 Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy 4 Consider the analogy of playing a lottery. Read More ›
Type post Author Sarah Chaffee Date July 31, 2016 CategoriesEnvironment & ClimateEvolution Tagged , __tedited, “consensus science”, defining terms, scientific reasoning, speciation Theory or Fact? Sarah Chaffee July 31, 2016 Environment & Climate, Evolution 3 Whether the subject is climate change or evolution, who determines what is considered scientific fact? A climate scientist weighs in. Read More ›
Type post Author Sarah Chaffee Date July 29, 2016 CategoriesScientific Freedom Tagged , __tedited, “consensus science”, democracy, intellectual freedom, limits of science, Politics, scientism, scientocracy, values, worldview Scientism, Values, and the Public Interest Sarah Chaffee July 29, 2016 Scientific Freedom 4 One cannot use scientific reasoning to arrive at values. Read More ›
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 & 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 27, 2016 CategoriesBioethics Tagged , __tedited, cloning, Dolly the sheep, human cloning, legislation, reproductive cloning, somatic cell nuclear transfer Dolly Clones Pave the Way for Human Cloning Wesley J. Smith July 27, 2016 Bioethics 3 Some human cloning apologists say that "therapeutic cloning" is different from "reproductive cloning." That's false. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date July 27, 2016 CategoriesNeuroscience & MindPhilosophy Tagged , __tedited, abstract thought, determinism, free will, immaterial mind, immaterial powers, intellect, John Searle, naturalism More on John Searle and Free Will Michael Egnor July 27, 2016 Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy 4 A reader cites Searle's books Rationality in Action and Freedom and Neurobiology, contending that he is in fact a defender of free will. Read More ›
Type post Author Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig Date July 26, 2016 CategoriesEvolutionGenetics Tagged , __tedited, degradative mutations, natural processes, natural selection, population genetics, presuppositions, probabilities, real world, realism, theoretical biology Scientific Inaccuracies, False Accusations: Concluding My Response to Joseph Felsenstein Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig July 26, 2016 Evolution, Genetics 13 Allow me, then, to introduce myself to Dr. Felsenstein. Read More ›
Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date July 25, 2016 CategoriesIntelligent Design Tagged , __tedited, Douglas Axe, promotions, Undeniable (book), Universal Design Intuition Douglas Axe — The Evolution of an Evolution Skeptic David Klinghoffer July 25, 2016 Intelligent Design 2 I'm always interested to ask people about their, as the case may be, intellectual, spiritual, or political evolution. Read More ›
