Category: Physics, Earth & Space
Despite Fine-Tuning, Roger Penrose Is “Agnostic” About Intelligent Design
The slightest changes in almost any of the basic parameters of nature would have led to a universe without stable stars or without stars at all.
Mendel’s Peas and More: Inferring Data Falsification in Science
What keeps scientific fraud in check is our ability to detect it, and it’s the design inference that does the detecting.
A Philosopher Rejects the Multiverse but Embraces Mythology
Ascribing sentience or cosmic purpose to forces or the particles on which they act is to step out of the realm of science into the realm of myth-making.
I Just Want to Say One Word to You: Graphene
Graphene was first characterized in 2004 when two researchers took graphite and exfoliated individual sheets of graphene using scotch tape.
Why Free Will Denial Is Self-Refuting
The only “scientific” basis for the denial of free will is determinism, the theory that every change in nature is determined prior to its occurrence.