Tag: Isaac Newton
The Triumphalism of Strickberger’s Evolution
The oversimplification here is staggering (Darwin and women’s rights?!) and would take an entire book to unpack.
Physicist: Gravity Refutes Free Will
Atheists share an attraction to using gravity in strange ways to support their doctrines.
Stranger on a Plane: Lessons from Flatland
In 1884, English clergyman Edwin A. Abbott published a work of scientific and mathematical fantasy.
Robert Marks: Why “Edmond de Belamy” Is Bunk
It has to do with the difference between interpolation and extrapolation.
Perfect Eclipses: Coincidence or Conspiracy?
Today we celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the solar eclipse that, on May 29, 1919, physicist Arthur Eddington observed, seeking to test the General Theory of Relativity.