Tag: Harvard University
Religious Intuition Can Lead to Scientific Discovery: The Cases of Copernicus and Ferguson
ID is not religion. But even if we were to concede falsely that it is, such a characterization is irrelevant to the question of whether it is true.
Do Fossils Demonstrate Human Evolution? Let’s Consider the Technical Literature
Far from “a nice clean example” of “gradualistic evolutionary change” that has “no gaps,” the fossil record shows a dramatic discontinuity.
Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Probability Theory Is Irrelevant
If you deny that probabilities apply to a physical process, you’ve abjured science — you no longer have a scientific theory.
How Political Ideology Has Undermined Scientific Credibility
Science goes badly off the track when it succumbs to ideological pressures — as it did with the eugenics movement.
Why Darwin Eclipsed Wallace: Darwin Comes to America
A less class-bound kind of protectiveness was shown to Darwin in the United States by Professor Asa Gray of Harvard University.