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Science

  • Compatibilism for incompatibilists: free will in five steps

  • The multiverse as a scientific concept

  • Applying falsifiability in science

  • What are “laws of physics”?

  • Science can deal with the supernatural

  • Science can indeed answer “why” questions

  • Can science attain truth? Why science is like golf

  • T. H. Huxley, James Clerk Maxwell, and the divorce of science from religion

  • On Discovering a Planet and the Art of Writing a Press Release

  • Water in the atmosphere of extra-solar planets

Nature of Science

  • Disagreeing (partially) with Sean Carroll about what is science

  • Contra theologian Roger Trigg on the nature of science

Some issues of Science

  • Yes of course “survival of the fittest” is tautological!

  • Did life happen “by chance”? Yes! Chance is not randomness

  • What is the point of scientific peer review?

  • Musings on Gettier and the definition of knowledge

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  • Nazi racial ideology was religious, creationist and opposed to Darwinism
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  • Britain’s 10 worst violations of religious equality
  • A fine-tuned universe argues for atheism
  • Einstein the atheist on religion and God
  • Science can answer morality questions

Recent Posts

  • God does not belong in a science class
  • Is the dimethyl sulphide in the atmosphere of exoplanet K2-18b real?
  • Barnard’s Star is orbited by four small, rocky planets
  • Estimates of the heritability of intelligence do include gene–environment interactions
  • Contra Michael Shermer, facts and reason cannot determine values and morals
  • GWAS studies underestimate the heritability of intelligence
  • Misinformation and the cost of smoking
  • Did Aboriginal Australians predict solar eclipses?

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