Tag: Galileo Galilei
Zombie History — Using Galileo to Whack Intelligent Design
As a top science journal tells the story, the Galileo myth is relevant only to attack those who challenge the establishment consensus.
The Biggest Myth So Far in Cosmos 3.0 — Baruch Spinoza as Science Hero
Scholarship on Spinoza in the last decade has increasingly recognized that he opposed the observational (empirical) and mathematical analyses of nature.
Robert Marks: Why “Edmond de Belamy” Is Bunk
It has to do with the difference between interpolation and extrapolation.
On Book Tour, Marcos Eberlin Sparks Thought About the ID Movement
During the Q&A, an attendee asked why intelligent design proponents don’t just come out and explicitly say the designer is God.
Galileo Myth Goes Marching On
He lived out his life at his comfortable rural estate, Villa Il Gioiello, on the hillside outskirts of Florence.