Tag: Francis Bacon
How to Restore Science’s Lost Luster
More and more, the scientific establishment looks like a special interest group with biases of their own.
Is Biology Approaching the Threshold of Design Acceptance?
A recent biology paper inches up to the edge of design advocacy, without using the phrase “intelligent design.”
Knowledge, Power, and the Scientific Enlightenment
A focus on power, to the neglect of wisdom, is fine, as long as it is recognized that mechanical philosophy is incomplete.
Philosopher in NY Times: The Universe Has No Purpose, But We Can Pretend…
As I noted yesterday, Joseph Carter wrote a fatuous essay in which he denies purpose in the universe and does an amusing dance around the implications that follow.