Tag: ancient Greeks
What Deep Social Change Underlies the War on Math?
The universal language of science is sinking under the weight of claims about trauma and privilege.
Man, with His Special Place in Nature, Was Designed to Use Fire
Only a special type of being very close to our own biological design could have taken the first and vital step to technological enlightenment, fire-making.
Evolutionary Theory as Magical Thinking
Charles Darwin himself exemplified the Argument from Pique, alluded to in past entries in this series, to a tee.
Evolution Versus Design: An Ancient Debate
The universe, according to Epicureanism, is without a creator, a purposeless and non-intelligent concourse of atoms without any cosmic source of direction.
Scott Turner Explains Philosophical Traditions Shaping Biology
Turner classifies the intelligent design movement as a resurgence of Platonic idealism.