Tag: materialism
Under Materialism, No Meaning to Life — and No Life, Either
Biologist Scott Turner’s spot-on phrase, the “Reverse Pinocchio,” captures the idea well.
Reaching the “Limits” of Material Explanations — Can It Be Done?
“Science is a game with one defining rule,” writes UCLA biochemist Richard E. Dickerson.
Scott Turner on Biology’s Hobson’s Choice – Time Running Out on Pre-publication Deal!
“The phrase is said to have originated with Thomas Hobson (1544–1631), who offered customers the choice of either taking the horse in his stall nearest to the door or taking none at all.”
On Origin of Life and More, Ideological Correctness Plagues Science
Ian O’Neill discusses origin-of-life research, and bizarrely restricts the explanations to “fluke” or “physics.”
Is Sean Carroll a Boltzmann Brain?
Carroll, a cosmologist and physicist specializing in general relativity and cosmology at Caltech, is highly regarded by the New Atheist community.