Tag: ancient Greeks
Weird Water and Its Role in the Rise of Chemistry
Water has been crucial in the transition from alchemy to the science of chemistry.
Fooled by Darwinism: A Scholar’s Cautionary Tale
Neil Thomas links the posturing of atheists Richard Dawkins and Bertrand Russell with the fatalism of poetry stretching back to the Middle Ages, and further.
When Did Humans Start Burying the Dead?
Only humans understand death as the inevitable and final reality for all mortal beings no matter what we do.
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.