Tag: superstition

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 12, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy 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

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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 ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
October 6, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Brights, Carlo Rovelli, Charles Darwin, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Max Planck, New Atheists, quantum weirdness, superstition, Werner Heisenberg, worldview}

Darwin and the Loss of the Enlightenment Paradigm

_{Neil Thomas
October 6, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

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As a plethora of books, articles, and TV programs have recently intoned, our almost complete ignorance of the nature of ultimate reality has been laid bare. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 8, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
History of Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, anti-science, Christianity, conflict myth, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Galileo Affair, Galileo Galilei, science and religion, Seattle, superstition, tradition}

Logan Paul Gage: “Our Galileo Complex”

_{David Klinghoffer
October 8, 2020

Faith & Science, History of Science, Scientific Reasoning

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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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Date
May 12, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Technology
Tagged
, __edited, conflict myth, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, Fox Broadcasting Company, history, ID the Future, immortality, Jay Richards, medicine, Michael Keas, National Geographic Channel, Neil deGrasse Tyson, podcast, religion, science, superstition, Unbelievable}

Neil Tyson Gets Ancient and Modern Medicine Wrong

_{Science and Culture
May 12, 2020

Faith & Science, Medicine, Technology

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Curiously, Tyson has a future, quasi-religious myth of his own to promote: personal immortality through futuristic technology. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 22, 2019

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __edited, abstract thought, Benjamin Libet, cerebral cortex, Darwinian evolution, Devil, dualism, magic, materialism, Michael Egnor, Neural Networks, neurons, neuroscience, psychiatry, Roger Sperry, Science Uprising, seizures, Spain, Spanish Inquisition, superstition, University of Toronto, Wikipedia, Wilder Penfield}

Explaining Abstract Thought in Materialist Terms: The Horns of a Dilemma

_{David Klinghoffer
July 22, 2019

Neuroscience & Mind

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What an interesting choice of art. What’s up with that? Goya painted other works on the same theme. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 10, 2014

Categories
Evolutionary Psychology
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __nedited, cynicism, design filter, design intuition, evolutionary psychology, Herbert Hoover, Michael Medved, Michael Shermer, Mount Holy Cross, Mount Rushmore, pareidolia, patternicity, providence, superstition}

Give Me That Old-Time Pareidolia

_{David Klinghoffer
July 10, 2014

Evolutionary Psychology, Faith & Science

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Seeing faces that aren't there is supposed to be a by-product of the evolutionary need to recognize real faces, distinguishing friends from enemies. Read More ›

Young woman touching her own reflection in a mirror

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
November 26, 2008

Categories
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __nedited, aboutness, agency, brain chemistry, defining terms, determinism, free will, inaccessibility, intentionality, materialism, meaning, mind, neuroscience, personal identity, secondary qualities, self-awareness, semantic information, subjectivity, superstition}

The Mind and Materialist Superstition

_{Michael Egnor
November 26, 2008

Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Consider the six characteristics of the mind, generally accepted by materialist and non-materialist scientists and philosophers. Read More ›