Tag: reason
“No Astronomical Investigations of Importance” in the Middle Ages? Not True!
Michael Keas offers an important corrective to falsehoods that students are still learning at this very moment.
Atheism’s Myth of a Christian Dark Ages Is Unbelievable
Did Christianity really drag the West into an anti-scientific “Dark Ages,” a period said to stretch from the fall of Rome to 1450 AD?
Intelligent Design and the Logic of Hume’s Skepticism
Many remember David Hume as a pioneering freethinker who saw through the superstition and sectarian dogmatism of religion.
Totalitarian Science: Past, Present, and Future?
When science is considered the only route to knowledge, scientific experts are given the right to rule, and science becomes totalitarian.
Human Exceptionalism — An Evolutionary Dilemma
Following Darwin, with an assist from Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin, Ken Miller proposes that human reason, consciousness, etc. are exaptations, or “spandrels.”