Tag: scientists
Tour: A “Time Out” for Origin-of-Life Community
The media narrative goes on, and the scientists, when they protest, direct their protests not so much at the media as at the skeptics and mavericks, such as Tour himself.
Slouching Toward a “Brave New World”
Genetic engineering could unleash a deadly pandemic or lead to a “new eugenics” with very sharp teeth.
Edward Feser on Aristotle’s Revenge — Purpose and Essence in Nature
Scientists can get along without Aristotle’s metaphysics, says Feser, but science can’t.
Physicist: “Multiverse Is Religion, Not Science”
The question she leaves unaddressed is why scientists would choose, despite the absence of evidence, despite the fact that the multiverse is “unobservable by assumption,” to believe in a multiverse.
New Science Uprising Episode: Evolution, Mutations, and “Fooling the Laymen”
The idea that random genetic mutations lead to wondrous, creative innovations is so influential that it forms the premise of a movie franchise, X-Men, that has grossed $6 billion.