By: Jason|22 March, 2011|Categories: Philosophy of Science|Tags: intelligent design . multiverse . Naturalism . science . william Dembski
A new book brings together essays from influential scientists, scholars, and public intellectuals to examine the role of naturalism in science.
Read more »By: Jason|10 March, 2011|Categories: Philosophy of Science|Tags: atheism . Origin of life . science . Scientific American
That’s exactly what John Horgan suggests. Writing for Scientific American, the science journalist argues that, twenty years since he first wrote about the topic, atheistic explanations have not moved any closer to establishing how life first emerged.
Read more »By: Stuart|21 June, 2010|Categories: Philosophy of Science|Tags: anti-science . evidence . Free enquiry . Ken Perrott . Reality . science
Some questions asked by Ken Perrott on the role of evidence and its relation to the what makes acceptable beliefs are answered by Stuart.
Read more »By: Stuart|06 June, 2010|Categories: Philosophy of Science|Tags: Big Bang . Causal directionality . kalam cosmological argument . Simultaneous Causation . william lane craig
An objection often raised against the Kalam Cosmological Argument is that there cannot be a cause of the universe because there were no prior instants of time before t = 0 in the initial Big Bang singularity. Stuart explains simultaneous causation and offers a response.
Read more »By: Stuart|15 May, 2010|Categories: Philosophy of Science|Tags: Argument . Epistemology . evidence . justification . logical argument . Philosophy of Science . verificationialism . Worldview
Stuart looks at the claim that logical arguments are not evidence and unpacks the evidential value of philosophical arguments in our investigation of reality.
Read more »By: Jason|22 January, 2010|Categories: Philosophy of Science|Tags: darwinism . design . Edward Feser . evolution . Intelligenty Design . intentionality . John Farrell . Scott Turner
A SUNY professor argues that scientists are becoming less hostile toward the idea of teleology.
Read more »By: Jason|21 December, 2009|Categories: Philosophy of Science|Tags: Brian Leiter . David Gordon . intelligent design . Stephen Meyer . Thomas Nagel
David Gordon, of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, offers some comments on the controversy that has erupted in the wake of atheist philosopher, Thomas Nagel’s positive review of a new book on Intelligent Design.
Read more »By: Rob|10 November, 2009|Categories: Books . Creation & Evolution . Philosophy of Science|Tags: Greatest Show On Earth . Jonathan Sarfati . richard dawkins
Jonathan Sarfati of CMI reviews Dawkins’ lastest book on the evidence for evolution.
Read more »By: Jason|10 November, 2009|Categories: Philosophy of Science|Tags: consciousness . materialism . Michael Lockwood . philosophy of mind
Let me begin by nailing my colours to the mast. I count myself a materialist, in the sense that I take consciousness to be a species of brain activity. Having said that, however, it seems to me evident that no description of brain activity of the relevant kind, couched in the currently available languages of physics, physiology, or functional or…
Read more »By: Jason|19 August, 2009|Categories: Philosophy of Science|Tags: Creationism . evolution . Michael Ruse . richard dawkins . The God Delusion
Michael Ruse, the atheist philosopher of biology, has written an interesting post about the extremism and intellectual failures of the “New Atheists”. Ruse teaches at the Florida State University and is himself an ardent critic of Creationism and Intelligent Design, authoring numerous books on the topic and in the philosophy of science (“Darwinism defended: a guide to the evolution controversies”,…
Read more »By: Stuart|13 July, 2009|Categories: Creation & Evolution . Philosophy of Science|Tags: Dr. Fuzale Rana . Intelligent agency . Origin of life . Reasons to Believe . RNA
On May 14th this year (2009) Reasons to Believe responded to two articles in the popular press. The first from the New York Times; “Chemist finds hidden gateway to RNA” and the second from Fox News; “Scientist may have found how life began.” The following is a transcript of their pod-cast Science News Flash with Joe Aguirre (JA) and Dr. Fuzale Rana (FR or “Fuzz”)
Read more »By: Rob|01 June, 2009|Categories: Philosophy of Science|Tags: intelligent design . MP3 . Stephen Meyer
MP3 Interview with leading Intelligent Design proponent Dr. Stephen Meyer here. “The inaugural radio Forum will be Sunday, May 30, 2009 featuring Dr. Stephen C. Meyer, Director and Senior Fellow of the Center for Renewal of Science and Culture, the Discovery Institute, Seattle, Washington. He demonstrates that the digital code imbedded in DNA points to a designing intelligence and brings…
Read more »By: Rob|16 February, 2009|Categories: Creation & Evolution . Philosophy . Philosophy of Science|Tags: richard dawkins . science . sir harry kroto . uniformity of nature
Today I had the pleasure of attending three events with Nobel prize winning chemist Sir Harry Kroto. Sir Harry is an atheist with a Jewish father, and a friend of Richard Dawkins. He is not afraid to talk about religion as evidenced during his recent interview with Kim Hill and by numerous remarks during the sessions today.
Read more »By: Stuart|27 January, 2009|Categories: Philosophy of Science|Tags: Christianity . Conflict Thesis . science
A response to Yahoo News article “God and science: an inner conflict,” by Robin Lloyd. And Kenneth Samples gives four reasons why historically science and Christianity have been allies rather than enemies.
Read more »By: Stuart|13 January, 2009|Categories: Philosophy of Science|Tags: Presuppositions of science . science . scientism . Self-defeating . Self-refuting . Strong Scientism . Truth . Weak scientism
What strong and weak scientism is and why it’s clearly irrational and should be avoided.
Read more »By: Rob|04 January, 2009|Categories: Philosophy of Science|Tags: Charles Darwin . Creation & Evolution . intelligent design
Given the coming year of Darwin, here is a $20 USD MP3 course you can buy and download…
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