Tag: Blaise Pascal
Science After Babel: An Exercise in Self-Criticism
Until the day before yesterday, the imperial architects of the scientific revolution were well satisfied and sleek as seals.
Aeschliman on Three Great Authors Critiquing Scientism
These include the philosopher Blaise Pascal, who showed that scientific knowledge on its own could never be sufficient for being fully human.
Diatoms, an Evolutionary Mystery, Come into Nano-Focus
The jewels of the microbial world, when seen with new nano-scale imaging techniques, look like little modernist cathedrals.
Where Steve Meyer Agrees with an Atheist Marxist
The New Atheism is dead, or so maverick writer Freddie deBoer argues. But that doesn’t mean the New Atheists lost.
Intelligent Design and the Restoration of Story
Celebrating the growing evidence of intelligent design can help rescue the arts from the nihilism and ugliness they have descended into in many quarters.