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apgaylard.wordpress.com | ||
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historyforatheists.com
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| | | | | The "Conflict Thesis" forms a kind of underlying historical metamyth that informs and undergirds a substantial number of assumptions about history by anti-theist polemicists. This is the assumed and unquestioned idea that Science and Religion have been perpetually at war down the ages. Also known as the Draper-White Thesis or Warfare Model, it is a conception of the history of science that presents religion as the perpetual and consistent enemy of science, technology and progress. It is a pervasive idea... Read More Read More | |
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scottaaronson.blog
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| | | | | My good friend Sean Carroll took a lot of flak recently for answering this year's Edge question, "What scientific idea is ready for retirement?," with "Falsifiability", and for using string theory and the multiverse as examples of why science needs to break out of its narrow Popperian cage. For more, seethis blog post of Sean's,... | |
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themultidisciplinarian.com
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| | | | | The debate over salt's role in blood pressure provides a rich illustration of how science progresses, especially when viewed through the lens of Kuhn's philosophy. It highlights the dynamics of shifting paradigms, consensus overreach, contrarian challenges, and the nonlinear, iterative path toward meaning. | |
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www.climateconversation.org.nz
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| | | David Wojick of CFact just posted this essay on a newsgroup I frequent. It's accessible, compelling and deserves wide distribution. It exposes a fatal flaw in the dangerous anthropogenic global warming hypothesis, namely: weather is chaotic and impossible to predict. | ||
