Tag: history of science
Disagreeing Agreeably — A Timely Lesson from Darwin and Wallace
Adults across the board engage in public fights where the personal destruction of ideological enemies is always a ready weapon.
Intelligent Design and COVID-19: Take a Seat for This Criticism
Intelligent design scientists, Adam Shapiro thinks, could redeem ID as being “apolitical” precisely by playing politics with science.
Lessons from Polar Bear Studies
Computer methods of analyzing mutations are widely used because they are generally accurate. They do not suddenly lose their accuracy when I cite them.
Giordano Bruno: A Martyr, Yes, but Not for Science
Bruno was not executed for his view that we live in a vast universe with vast numbers of planets.
Listen: No, Bill Nye, a Big Cosmos Isn’t a Problem for Religion
Bill Nye recently dusted off this old saw, but the Old Testament itself, in the Psalms, depicts man and the Earth as tiny in compared to a vast universe.