Month: January 2018
Medical Coercion Comes to Virginia?
Futile care theory (as I call it) or medical futility allows doctors to unilaterally refuse wanted life-sustaining treatment based on the physician’s values.
Naturalism and Self-Refutation
How much does Gödel’s incompleteness theorem weigh? What is the physics of non-contradiction? How many millimeters long is Tom Clark’s argument for naturalism?
Earlier Burgess-Shale-Type Fossils Found in Greenland
Exquisitely preserved animal fossils now show up on three widely separated continents. The earliest are just as complex as those in the Burgess Shale.
Monkey Clones: Harbingers of Things to Come?
An amazing technical accomplishment, it also elicits dread.
What Jordan Peterson Might Say to Intelligent Design Proponents
Peterson’s signature issues aren’t really on the radar screen here, and behind much of his perspective on psychology is a standard evolutionary viewpoint.