Tag: Galileo Galilei
The Triumphalism of Strickberger’s Evolution
The oversimplification here is staggering (Darwin and women’s rights?!) and would take an entire book to unpack.
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.