Posted in Religion, Science on Mar 30th, 2010 | Viewed 972 times
Sam Harris has made an excellent albeit a bit short TED talk about science and moral questions: He naturally got a lot of negative critique for this talk. He is not claiming that science can dictate morals exactly, what he is saying is that there are moral truths to be known. The fact that science [...]
Posted in Pseudoscience, Religion, Science on Oct 6th, 2009 | Viewed 1168 times
A talk by physicist Steven Weinberg. It is well worth the listen. “Steven Weinberg, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he founded its Theory Group and holds the Josey Regental Chair of Science, was awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with colleagues Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow [...]
Posted in Pseudoscience, Religion, Science on May 29th, 2009 | Viewed 452 times
This story popped up both in my New Scientist and my Panda’s Thumb feeds today. New Scientist: Christians battle each other over evolution Panda’s Thumb: But it’s not about religion … So basically, we have the Discovery Institute, the pseudo-scientific Seattle organization, promoting Intelligent Design, who has launched a new website, Faith+Evolution. There they ask: [...]
Posted in Pseudoscience, Religion on May 24th, 2009 | Viewed 975 times
So, Michael Behe is still at it, 13 years after his book, Darwin’s Black Box, which has been a complete failure in proving Intelligent Design. Apparently a recent article in Science (or read the blog article) has caused Behe to write a letter in response, which Science did not wish to publish, naturally. Instead Behe [...]