Tag: Baruch Spinoza
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.
When Einstein Met Lemaître
Einstein’s response shows the same unwillingness to change his position: he accepted the mathematics, but not a physically expanding universe.
Puncturing the Science-Faith Warfare Myth
In abandoning his traditional Jewish faith, was Baruch Spinoza able to provide an improved framework for doing science?
Evolutionary Theory as Magical Thinking
Charles Darwin himself exemplified the Argument from Pique, alluded to in past entries in this series, to a tee.
Darwin and the Victorian Culture Wars
As Alec Ryrie pointed out in his history of Doubt, “intellectuals and philosophers may think they make the weather, but they are more often driven by it.”
