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Galileo Facing the Roman Inquisition
Image: Galileo Facing the Roman Inquisition, by Cristiano Banti / Public domain.

Logan Paul Gage: “Our Galileo Complex”

How did science, of all things, come to be a vehicle for virtue signaling, a virtual religion, with insiders and outsiders, the damned and the saved? Read More ›
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The Triumphalism of Strickberger’s Evolution

The oversimplification here is staggering (Darwin and women’s rights?!) and would take an entire book to unpack. Read More ›
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Scientific Racism and the Confederate Flag

Alexander H. Stephens was Vice President of the Confederacy. In 1861 he delivered an oration justifying slavery and rebellion on scientific grounds. Read More ›
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Portrait of Galileo Galilei and his telescope
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Zombie History — Using Galileo to Whack Intelligent Design

As a top science journal tells the story, the Galileo myth is relevant only to attack those who challenge the establishment consensus. Read More ›
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The Biggest Myth So Far in Cosmos 3.0 — Baruch Spinoza as Science Hero

Scholarship on Spinoza in the last decade has increasingly recognized that he opposed the observational (empirical) and mathematical analyses of nature. Read More ›
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#7 of Our Top Stories of 2019: Three Nobel Endorsements for Marcos Eberlin

This is the refrain of the book: “It is all or death!” “All or nothing!” Half-solutions are no solutions at all. Read More ›
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Robert Marks: Why “Edmond de Belamy” Is Bunk

It has to do with the difference between interpolation and extrapolation. Read More ›
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On Book Tour, Marcos Eberlin Sparks Thought About the ID Movement

During the Q&A, an attendee asked why intelligent design proponents don’t just come out and explicitly say the designer is God. Read More ›
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With Three Nobel Endorsements, Chemist Marcos Eberlin Advances Case for Intelligent Design

This is the refrain of the book: “It is all or death!” “All or nothing!” Half-solutions are no solutions at all. Read More ›
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Galileo Myth Goes Marching On

He lived out his life at his comfortable rural estate, Villa Il Gioiello, on the hillside outskirts of Florence. Read More ›

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