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 ›
Copernicus Type post Author Robert F. Shedinger Date November 30, 2022 CategoriesAstronomyPhysical SciencesScience Tagged , aesthetics, extraterrestrial life, Galileo Galilei, Harvard University, heliocentric model, intelligent design, James Ferguson, Luther College, Nicolaus Copernicus, Owen Gingerich, physicists, Ptolemaic system, religion, solar system, telescope, University of Wisconsin Religious Intuition Can Lead to Scientific Discovery: The Cases of Copernicus and Ferguson Robert Shedinger November 30, 2022 Astronomy, Physical Sciences, Science 5 ID is not religion. But even if we were to concede falsely that it is, such a characterization is irrelevant to the question of whether it is true. Read More ›
Alex Filippenko Type post Author Paul Nelson Date November 30, 2020 CategoriesPhilosophy of SciencePhysical SciencesPhysics Tagged , dark energy, dark matter, Lex Fridman, phylogenetics, Ptolemaic system, systematics, UC Berkeley “Our 20th- and 21st-Century Ptolemaic Epicycles”? Paul Nelson November 30, 2020 Philosophy of Science, Physical Sciences, Physics 2 I am fascinated by the philosophy of science parallels to similar moves in molecular phylogenetics and systematics. Read More ›
Charles-darwin-portrait-sitting-on-chair-sketch 2 Type post Author Robert F. Shedinger Date July 7, 2020 CategoriesEvolutionScience Education Tagged , Alfred Tennyson, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Brian K. Hall, élan vital, evolution, evolutionary biology, Galileo Galilei, Genetics (journal), George Bernard Shaw, George Eliot, Harvard School of Public Health, heliocentric model, Henri Bergson, Herbert Spencer, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, John Cairns, Joseph Conrad, Karl Marx, Max Delbrück, Nicolaus Copernicus, Peter Bowler, Ptolemaic system, randomness, religion, Salvador Luria, Sigmund Freud, Strickberger’s Evolution, textbooks, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Kuhn The Triumphalism of Strickberger’s Evolution Robert Shedinger July 7, 2020 Evolution, Science Education 7 The oversimplification here is staggering (Darwin and women’s rights?!) and would take an entire book to unpack. Read More ›
