Tag: magic
Magical Thinking: Can Pterosaurs Be Darwinized?
Neil Thomas has written about “Evolutionary Theory as Magical Thinking” and there is no shortage of examples in the literature on fossils.
Will Scientists Now Consider Occult as Science?
“My truth” or (for grammatical convenience) “private truth” is making serious headway against public truth.
Science for Insight or Science for Power?
What are the core purposes of science and math? Evaluating the idea of “knowledge as power” in the computer age.
Humans Have Limits. Transhumanists Want to Overcome Them
Transhumanism, arguably an offshoot of neo-Darwinism, is set on envisioning the next grand step of human evolution.
Meyer, Krauss, Nelson: UAPs, UFOs, and Panspermia
The fact that we can’t identify the UAPs, in light of our own “limited scientific imagination,” should not be permitted to manipulate us into a false dilemma.