Tag: scientific materialism
Spend an Evening with C. S. Lewis on November 3
The movie opens with Lewis as an outspoken scientific atheist, whose view of science reinforces his bleak materialistic view of the universe.
Biologist Jonathan Wells Offers a Cure for Zombie Science
Wells encourages more than a modest dose of skepticism, and gives the example of the supposed “backward wiring of the vertebrate eye” as a case in point.
Why Systems Biologists Now Assume Life Is Optimally Designed
Purported examples of poor design usually represent opinions resulting from armchair critics’ limited understanding of the technical literature.
England, Davies: Honesty, if Not Agreement, on the Origin of Life
Jeremey England explained his conjecture that the flow of energy through a chemical system could cause it to self-organize in such a way as to move toward life.
Meyer: Materialism’s “Wild West of Weirdo Explanations”
The multiverse theory, one target of Meyer’s book, does beg for a parodist’s touch, which it obtains here.