Candlewithholder Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date August 12, 2025 CategoriesFaith & ScienceIntelligent DesignPhilosophy of Science Tagged , Carl Sagan, common sense, consciousness, demons, Divine Foot, eliminative materialism, immaterial reality, material world, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, Richard C. Lewontin, split-brain patients, superstition, The Demon-Haunted World, The Immortal Mind, The New York Review of Books, universe Taking the Side of Science — But Which Side? Denyse O’Leary August 12, 2025 Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science 5 In writing that science’s materialism is absolute, Richard Lewontin wrote as one who did not grasp the fatal flaw in his absolutism. Read More ›
2560px-Land_planarian_(21248664896) Type post Author Daniel Witt Date February 28, 2025 CategoriesBiologyEngineeringMathematicsMetaphysics Tagged , a priori, abstract objects, Andreas Wagner, Daniel Dennett, David Deutsch, Discovery Institute, DNA, emergence, flatworms, frogs, Günter Bechly, Harvard University, material world, materialism, Max Tegmark, Mereology, Michael Levin, morphogenesis, mysticism, naturalism, philosophy of biology, physical world, physicalism, Platonism, Platonists, Richard Sternberg, Roger Penrose, secondary qualities, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, teleology, Tufts University, universals, University of Zurich, Werner Heisenberg Biologist Michael Levin: A Farewell to Physicalism Daniel Witt February 28, 2025 Biology, Engineering, Mathematics, Metaphysics 15 Levin proposes a “radical Platonist view in which some of the causal input into mind and life originates outside the physical world.” Read More ›
Claudius Ptolemy Type post Author Melissa Cain Travis Date June 5, 2023 CategoriesAstronomyFaith & ScienceHistory of ScienceMathematics Tagged , antiquity, Aristotelianism, celestial bodies, curriculum, DiscoveryU, geocentrism, material world, philosophers, Plato, Ptolemaic system, Pythagoras, rationality, scientific revolution Let’s Explore How Cosmology Influenced Christianity Melissa Cain Travis June 5, 2023 Astronomy, Faith & Science, History of Science, Mathematics 2 Many centuries prior to the rise of modern science, the philosophers of antiquity recognized the inherent rationality of the natural word. Read More ›
