Category: Physics, Earth & Space
The “Surprisingly Consistent” Answer to the Question: Are We Alone in the Universe?
The firm belief in extraterrestrial life — a belief nearly universal in the scientific community — is an act of faith.
Cosmos 3.0 with Neil deGrasse Tyson Arrives Tonight at 8 PM, Somewhat Dented
The second season (2014) spun a misleading narrative celebrating the triumph of rational, secular scientific culture over benighted, supposedly irrational and anti-science religion.
Hey, Paul Davies — Your ID Is Showing
No better advertisements for intelligent design exist than works written by establishment scientists that unintentionally make design arguments.
Remembering Freeman Dyson and the Enduring Lesson of “Dyson’s Hypothesis”
Dyson points out that the highly improbable is actually quite probable by invoking “Littlewood’s law of miracles.”
Freeman Dyson: The Passing of an Iconoclastic Physicist
Dyson was careful to take an open-minded approach: not fully endorsing design, yet not rejecting it either.