Tag: mathematics
Darwin on Trial: The Implications for Neuroscience and Ethics
Neuroscientist Patricia Churchland cites Prairie Voles to illustrate how chemical processes inform morality. Prairie Voles with a greater number of oxytocin receptors were monogamous while those with fewer such receptors were not.
From Conception to Birth: The Math and the Marvel
Mathematician and medical image maker Alexander Tsiaras offers a stunning visualization.
We Get Poor-Mouthed by the National Center for Science Education
To “poor-mouth” means using claims of poverty to try to manipulate other people.
“More Philosophical than Scientific”: Parsing a Rationalization
If you want to show that evolution does not violate the second law, you cannot simply say, sure, evolution is astronomically improbable, but the Earth is an open system, so there is no problem.
At BioLogos, Still Critiquing the Book Steve Meyer Didn’t Write
From occasionally perusing the BioLogos website, I’ve come to realize that talk about holiness and humility and love often accompanies some kind of innuendo or slur.