Tag: Adam Frank
“Optimism” and a Lonely Planet
Adam Frank (University of Rochester) interviewed fellow astrophysicist Avi Loeb (Harvard) about the future possibility of detecting “techno-signatures” from space.
Nature, as Defined Today, Cannot Be All There Is
Science is on the move. It is slowly morphing from observing nature to embodying naturalism.
Question for Multiverse Theorists: To What Can Science Appeal if Not Evidence?
They could just as well say that whatever created horses created unicorns, too.
Freedom and Scientific Progress – A Necessary Relationship
A familiar talking point holds that a rigid attitude to science along Darwinist lines is indispensable to technological advance, while academic freedom impedes it.
What Is Matter? The Aristotelian Perspective
Writing here yesterday, I pointed out the problems with materialist metaphysics.