What, Why & How do we Know ?
We may be getting somewhere, slowly. One of my agenda threads is that the naturally tendency of science and many scientists to defend themselves against (so-called blind, unreasonable) “faith” is to treat all accepted scientific models as objective fact (despite formally qualifying themselves with concepts like evidence, contingency and empirical falsifiability) – something, after Maxwell, I refer … Continue reading “Cracks in the Cosmic Egg”
I’m not a climate sceptic, but I’m a sceptic of “science reporting (claiming)” of global warming or any other non-local-closed-system global / cosmic events. Interesting that the journalist here, David Shukman, can make a point out of “X is common sense, but I’ve never heard a scientist actually claim it before” (X here being the … Continue reading “Common Sense – Global Warming”
I agree with Mr Sacks, the Chief Rabbi, with maybe minor (but very significant) adjustments inserted: Atheism has failed [is failing]. Only religion [or a more enlightened atheism] can defeat the new barbarians. Certainly my main agenda for some years has been that New Atheism has won the puerile sound-bite war, but needs to up … Continue reading “Atheism Needs Religion”
Interesting conversation with Dawkins. (Hat tip to tweet from BHA.) Law is a philosopher with an interest in the paranormal, so not surprisingly Sue Blackmore crops up. Love the “God helmet” passage. Also love the infinite regress argument on what counts as “evidence”. Must follow up with Law, and the argument around the value of … Continue reading “Stephen Law”
Hi, thanks for responding. First I must assume since you replied to my tweet that you at least saw this post linked in that tweet? https://www.psybertron.org/?p=5492 You will find linked in that post links to other specific relevant posts. (And of course if you were to browse, there are many more on the relevant topics on that blog … Continue reading “Open Letter to BHA”
Apologies for the headline, but since I tend to use Dawkins as my prime example of the arrogant scientist who doesn’t get the value anything other than science (and objective / deterministic logic), but by way of balance, this conversation with Larry Krauss from February this year, has some excellent content. It does of course still … Continue reading “Dawkins Talks Sense”
When watching last week’s BBC Horizon, I was disappointed to see the singularity and inflation still at the root of big bang theories. That’s despite the fact that two key subjects were brought up very early – causation itself (which is actually not discussed further), and the logical problem with the idea of time itself … Continue reading “Before the Big Bang ?”