Tag: Antony Flew
Life Itself: In Michael Levin’s Platonism, Teleology Advances
This is a huge step by a leading contemporary academic scientist away from pure physicalism.
Not with a Bang: How the New Atheism Fizzled
It didn’t help that Hitchens and Dennett are deceased. But what’s significant is that they were not replaced.
Our Universe Works … Yet Doesn’t Make Sense; How Could That Be?
How can so much uncertainty lie placidly at the basis of our universe but disrupt nothing in particular? We even build better computers because of it.
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.
The Dawkinsian Mythology
Philosopher Mary Midgely pointed out the fatuousness of the “meme” hypothesis in painfully direct terms.