Tag: Pierre-Simon Laplace
Life Itself: In Michael Levin’s Platonism, Teleology Advances
This is a huge step by a leading contemporary academic scientist away from pure physicalism.
Conservation of Information: The History of an Idea
Conservation of information” is a term that appears in both the physics and the computer science literature.
Return of the God Hypothesis in Poland
Has the God hypothesis indeed returned? When Darwin presented his theory, it seemed that science had thoroughly confirmed a complete naturalistic paradigm.
Is Natural Law Irreducible?
Perhaps the most fundamental distinction between naturalism and intelligent design is where each metaphysical framework draws the line at irreducibility.
Shelley, Darwin, and the 19th-Century God Debate
The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley threw down the gauntlet for what was effectively to become the great Victorian dispute about religious faith.