Tag: Carl Sagan
When Scientists Make Truth Claims Outside Science
Here is a small, representative sampling of such claims over the past three centuries. These claims are not from science, but they drive science.
Against the Tide: When Scientists Stray from Science
Lennox: “Stephen Hawking was a brilliant mathematician and a genius. But he had no idea about philosophy.”
Repentant Biology Journal Offers a Weak Rebuttal to Its Own Pro-ID Fine-Tuning Paper
The authors close by quoting Carl Sagan’s famous adage that “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” Do they offer that kind of evidence?
Echoing the Bible, Cosmos Concludes with a Materialist Origins Myth and Future Heavenly Bliss
Tyson ends his summary of cosmic history with a soaring narrative focused on earth. It sounds like the exalted prose of the book of Genesis.
C. S. Lewis Helps Us See Design in Three Dimensions
Just for a little while turn off the PBS science narrator in your head. Why should there be beauty? What is it for?