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petterhol.me
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| | | | | In this blog post, I'll explore reasons to call science a product of collective intelligence. I'll look for something more than the sum of its parts, something more than a Cartesian or Baconian view of science as an edifice built by the contributions of many individuals. Are there steps of scientific progress taken by several... | |
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www.wondersofphysics.com
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| | | | | Isaac Newton was the leading figure of the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century. | |
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geopolicraticus.wordpress.com
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| | | | | Saturday A Scientific Research Program That Never Happened Carl Sagan liked to characterize the Library of Alexandria as a kind of scientific research institution in classical antiquity: "Here was a community of scholars, exploring physics, literature, medicine, astronomy, geography, philosophy, mathematics, biology, and engineering. Science and scholarship had come of age. Genius flourished there. The... | |
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www.steelsnowflake.org
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| | | Paine's 'The Age of Reason' took America by storm in 1795 when both volumes were published. Paine's critique of traditional Christianity angered America's religious leaders. He ridiculed the Bible and mocked Christian beliefs like Christ's divinity, the Resurrection, and the Virgin Mary, to name a few. Instead, he argued that deism was a better and more authentic worship of God. He famously wrote that "The creation is the Bible of the deist." Sadly, Paine's deism was an idea before its time. | ||
