Tag: Andrew McDiarmid
Listen: Gauger on the Limits of Evolutionary Optimization
Biologist Ann Gauger explains how she and Douglas Axe tested popular hypotheses for protein origins.
Listen: Did Galileo Prove the Catholic Church’s Irrational Opposition to Science?
There’s plenty here for both scientists and theologians to learn — as well as anyone who thinks Galileo shows the Church was at war against science.
Listen: No, Bill Nye, a Big Cosmos Isn’t a Problem for Religion
Bill Nye recently dusted off this old saw, but the Old Testament itself, in the Psalms, depicts man and the Earth as tiny in compared to a vast universe.
Science and Storytelling
To advance the false conception that science is always in conflict with religious tradition, some influential scientists and science popularizers tell us stories about the past and the present.
Bill Dembski on the AI Boogeyman, and the Real AI Danger
“The real worry,” Dembski says, “isn’t that we’ll raise machines to our level, but that we’ll lower humanity to the level of machines.”