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Science After Babel by David Berlinski Reviewed
David Berlinski is one of our best critics of the neo-Darwinian theory of evolution. He spends some time on this in his new book, which is a collection of pieces…
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Yuval Harari’s Homo Deus: Marketing The Materialist World View — Guest Post by Jaap Hanekamp
Reading your typical book is like sitting on the grandstand of a racetrack. You see the race cars whizzing by, and you sort of feel the excitement of the race,…
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Emergence Comes From Nowhere, Does Nothing, Goes Nowhere, But Still Becomes Theory
We return to reviewing Sabine Hossenfelder's, a.k.a. Old Hoss's, new book Existential Physics. First part (many worlds), second part (entropy). If you knew all there is to know about hydrogen…
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One Book To Rule Them All: Everything You Believe Is Wrong
Everything You Believe Is Wrong will drop on 1 December. Three short weeks. Pre-order it, in paperback or e-book forms, now: Amazon paperback, Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble, Walmart (not…
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Free First Chapter in Everything You Believe Is Wrong, The Book All Woke Fear
Who is this book for? Before I answer that excellent question, let me first show why the book is necessary, if you have a moment. Watch this thirty second clip.…
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Physics & Vertical Causation: The End of Quantum Reality by Wolfgang Smith Reviewed
Top Down One of the proofs of God's existence given to us by our good saint Thomas Aquinas is the argument from essential causal chains. (We have met this many…
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Sean Carroll’s “The Big Picture” Reviewed: Why “Poetic Naturalism” is an Oxymoron — Guest Post by Bob Kurland
Another version of this article first appeared at Kurland's site. Scientism, the belief that science can explain everything about the world and ourselves, is a religion, although not formally expressed…
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On Truly Random Numbers
Party trick for you. I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 4. Can you guess it? Two? Nope. Three? Nope. And not one or four either. I know what…
