Tag: literature
“Would Mathematics Be Here if We Weren’t?”
In December, physicist and author Lawrence Krauss interviewed the late American novelist Cormac McCarthy, who died on June 13th at the age of 89.
Why Mathematics and Literature Point to Intelligent Design
In an era where un-design is celebrated, a mathematician shows that structure and order are inherent in both literature and the universe.
Aeschliman on Three Great Authors Critiquing Scientism
These include the philosopher Blaise Pascal, who showed that scientific knowledge on its own could never be sufficient for being fully human.
Intelligent Design and the Value of Suffering
After she realized she had lost her battle with cancer, my wife Melissa wrote a letter to our children.
Darwin’s Goddess: Natural Selection as “Divine Surrogate”
When parsed carefully, the metaphorical structure of Darwin’s argumentation emerges as little less than a periphrastic description of the goddess Natura.