Category: Science
Scientism and the Death of Wisdom
Many thanks to Joe Carter at Evangelical Outpost for hosting the symposium. Ethics in our ostensibly pluralistic society have become increasingly dominated by a single voice: science. In the 2004 debate over Proposition 71, the California initiative to fund stem-cell...
More fun at naturalism.org…
Check out the “Naturalism and Spirituality” page. The first line strikes me as a bit funny and ironic: Although naturalism may at first seem an unlikely basis for spirituality…(You can read the rest for yourself.) Naturalism actually doesn’t seem to...
(Inevitably) The Center for Naturalism strikes me as laughable
Thanks to William Dembski’s link, I began reading through the official website for the Center for Naturalism and found myself laughing hysterically. It really couldn’t be helped. I mean, it really couldn’t; it was merely a product of my biological...
Charity Begins at Homo Sapiens
Check out a recent article in New Scientist on the deep-seated altruism of humankind. The article isn’t conclusive, but it does pose problems for those who wish to collapse the fundamental distinction between humankind and the animal kingdom. Not that...