Category: Culture
In Prometheus, Ridley Scott Takes on Intelligent Design — and the Cambrian Explosion?
It sounds like the premise of the film holds that an eruption of biological information in the Cambrian period accounts indirectly for the functioning genome we enjoy today.
How Scientism Misrepresents Reality
Consider the study of the movements of the keys on my keyboard as I type this. The most basic study would be of the physics of the keys.
Science and Its Limitations
Science is worthy of some measure of public respect, but only to the extent that science acts like science, and not like something else.
Philip Kitcher on the Trouble with Scientism
Scientism is emerging as one of the greatest threats to humanity in the 21st century. It is a crass mistake — a logical mistake — but it has a broad appeal.
The Mysterious Embryonic Stem Cell
Two compelling scientific articles this past month provide some hints of how stem cells are programmed.