Tag: Carl Sagan | Page 5 | Science and Culture Today

^{Type
post

Date
March 24, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, Carl Sagan, human brain, neurons, neuroscience, speech, The Kingdom of Speech, Tom Wolfe}

Yes, the Human Brain Is the Most Complex Thing in the Universe

_{Science & Culture
March 24, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

2}

Our brains have actually shrunk by 10 percent over the last 40,000 years, coinciding with spectacular intellectual achievements. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 12, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Alexander Oparin, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, early Earth, Erasmus Darwin, Francis Crick, Frankenstein, Harold Urey, J.B.S. Haldane, James Watson, Joseph Hooker, Louis Pasteur, Mary Shelley, Miller-Urey experiment, Ovid, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus, Richard Dawkins, Stanley Miller, Time Magazine, University of Chicago}

Myths, Monsters, and Life’s Elusive First Step

_{Neil Thomas
August 12, 2021

Evolution, Life Sciences, Origin of Life

12}

The notion that the building blocks of life were easily gotten may have seemed intuitive to journalists and others acquainted with Mary Shelley’s novel. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Date
August 10, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, atheism, Carl Sagan, Christianity, Eric Anderson, hospitals, ID the Future, Jay Richards, Judeo-Christian tradition, podcast, Science, universities}

Jay Richards Dismantles Carl Sagan’s Passive Theist

_{Science & Culture
August 10, 2021

Faith & Science

1}

Sagan suggests that if we give up on the belief in God, then we can roll up our sleeves and save our planet. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Date
August 7, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Carl Sagan, creator, Eric Anderson, faith, ID the Future, Jay Richards, Nature, podcast, Science, The Privileged Planet}

Jay Richards: God, Carl Sagan, and Word Games

_{Science & Culture
August 7, 2021

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

1}

When the vast majority of people speak about God, they have in mind a powerful, conscious Creator. Sagan plays games by redefining the meaning of “God.” Read More ›

^{Type
post

Date
August 3, 2021

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, astronomers, Carl Sagan, Cosmos (series), documentary, Eric Anderson, Extrasolar Planets, ID the Future, Jay Richards, podcast, The Privileged Planet}

Before Carl Sagan Said It, Science Debunked It

_{Science & Culture
August 3, 2021

Physical Sciences

1}

Jay Richards and Eric Anderson discuss the statement that Carl Sagan is perhaps most famous for. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Date
July 23, 2021

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, aliens, Carl Sagan, Casey Luskin, chemical evolution, Cornell University, Curiosity rover, Darwinism, Enceladus, Francesco Redi, Jonathan Bartlett, Jonathan O’Callaghan, Louis Pasteur, Mars, methane, microbes, Mind Matters, New Scientist, probabilistic resources, The Conversation, University of Arizona, University of Washington, Venus}

Methane Causes Space Aliens?

_{Science & Culture
July 23, 2021

Physical Sciences

8}

Recent sensational headlines give astute readers occasion to contrast valid scientific inferences from leaps of faith based on worldview assumptions. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 18, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, abiogenesis, aliens, Avi Loeb, Big Bang, Carl Sagan, Center for Science and Culture, Francis Crick, Harvard University, intelligence, James Watson, New York Post, Nobel Prize, panspermia, Prometheus, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, UFOs}

Stephen Meyer: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and the God Hypothesis

_{David Klinghoffer
July 18, 2021

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

3}

Mainstream scientists have been speculating about other-than-earthly intelligence for decades. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 6, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, empirical science, evolution, Harvard University, Herbert Spencer, historical sciences, intelligent causation, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Jerry Fodor, just-so stories, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, methodological naturalism, On the Origin of Species, Richard Lewontin, Stephen Jay Gould, The New York Review of Books, What Darwin Got Wrong, William A. Dembski, zoologists}

Honoring Richard Lewontin, Famed Evolutionary Biologist and Sometime Critic of His Own Field

_{Casey Luskin
July 6, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

12}

The quote for which Lewontin has become best known appeared in his 1997 review of a book by Carl Sagan. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 29, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Brian Keating, Carl Sagan, hostility, Into the Impossible, physicists, Stephen Meyer, theists, U.C. San Diego}

Three Tough Existential Questions for Steve Meyer

_{David Klinghoffer
April 29, 2021

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

2}

Brian Keating asks what Meyer would put in a space-bound time capsule like the Voyager Golden Record, as Carl Sagan had the opportunity to do. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 5, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Arno Penzias, astronomers, atheism, Bible, Big Bang, biological information, Carl Sagan, Contact, creator, DNA, Edwin Hubble, Georges Lemaître, Moses, multiverse, physicists, Prime Mover, Psalms, punctuation, Return of the God Hypothesis, Robert Jastrow, science denial, scientists, Stephen Meyer, The Federalist, Thomas Aquinas}

The God Hypothesis Versus Atheist Science Denial

_{Michael Egnor
April 5, 2021

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

5}

It is a scandal that atheism has such a hold on so many scientists that it corrupts their science and leads them to deny what is obvious. Read More ›