The history of natural theology shows that Intelligent Design and New Atheism both got it wrong, in strangely similar ways
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Nov2022 Title 4: Natural Theology, Intelligent Design & the New Atheism: disentangling the notions of 'proof' and 'indisputable evidence' in exploring the arguments for God's existence...
While still a product of it’s time, Reginald Scot’s “A Discoverie of Witchcraft” in 1584 offered common-sense challenges to the moral panic around witchcraft
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Nov2022 Title 4: Elizabethan England, witchcraft & 'extraordinarie dealing[s]': It seems that the search for indisputable evidence to condemn women as witches was driven by 'extortion, greed and money'...
The accelerating effort to understand the mathematics of quantum field theory will have profound consequences for both math and physics.
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Nov2022 Title 4: QFT, correlation functions & the nature of infinity: searching for an indisputable math explanation of physical reality, if not empirical evidence...
Scientists warn that without good biosecurity measures, 'alien organisms' on Earth may become a reality stranger than fiction.
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Nov2022 Title 4: Biodiversity, 'invasion science' & forward/backward contamination: How experts are responding to 'clear' if not indisputable evidence that 'humans have spread organisms...even into space.'
A female serial killer named “Phantom of Heilbronn” was linked to 40 crimes, six of which were murders. Yet in 2009 it was discovered that she didn't exist. Here, we look at this fascinating tale of DNA contamination introduced to each crime scene and how ISO 18385 will assist forensic science in …
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Nov2022 Title 4: The faceless woman & the phantom serial killer: How DNA evidence may not always be as 'indisputable' as experts think...
Thinkers across physics, philosophy and literature believe that even inanimate matter has a mind, of sorts. Is panpsychism worthy of deeper enquiry?
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Nov2022 Title 4 Access consciousness, phenomenal consciousness & panpsychism: when making sense of things, HS experts' search for convincing explanations may be unattainable, irrespective of available evidence...
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
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Nov2022 Title 4: Computer simulations, biochemical puppetry & alien programmers: the evidence available to support the knowledge consciousness is neither indisputable, nor conclusive...
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