Tag: Daniel Dennett
Richard Dawkins and the Law of Unintended Consequences
The New Atheists’ failure to understand the nuanced way that “ordinary people” think was a profound strategic error.
Alfred Russel Wallace’s Greatest Journey
Alfred Russel Wallace took a journey Darwin could not follow. He went from natural selection to natural theology.
Science Sunday: Is Scientific Materialism the Best Framework for Understanding Reality?
The voices of pop science teach us and our children that “everything, if Darwin is right, is mechanical and blind and purposeless at the bottom.”
Eccentric Theories of Consciousness Are Tolerated; But Why?
The strangest imaginable theory, quantum mechanics, has turned out to be the most experimentally reliable.
Can a Brainless Jellyfish Learn? How About Individual Cells? Do Molecules Communicate?
Cells are intelligent, in a way. But that fact is a much better argument for intelligent design than for the idea that the human intellect is insignificant.