Although Kurt Gödel has not become a household name like Albert Einstein, he was one of the greatest logicians in history, a towering intellectual giant who was also a close…
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Category Archives: Science
Materialism—the idea that matter is the only reality—and reductionism—the notion that complex things can be understood by reducing them to the interactions of their parts, or to simpler or more…
Can you disobey the laws of physics? “Every physical aspect of the entire universe must obey the one eternal mathematical law. For some people, this claim will appear to be…
"The world in which we live is not the only one in which we shall live or have lived". For some people, such words will be nothing more than another...
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It may seem absurd to question whether or not Einstein was a scientist, but doing so reveals an underlying source for many of our societal ills. Indeed, part of the…
Some scientists have a deep understanding of science, but many do not. Being able to apply mathematical equations, conduct experiments, write research papers, or apply for funding does not automatically…
Richard Dawkins is former Professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford. We could reasonably presume, therefore, that he should know the relevant views of Max Planck, the originator of…
A pseudoscientific claim purports to be scientific, even though it is not based on the scientific method or scientific truth. The problem is that there is no such thing as the scientific method,…
There are many logical systems, which relatively few people actually understand, but they all rest upon certain axioms or assumptions. However, these axioms can never be logically validated, which means that...
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One of the most important steps on the path of knowledge, whether scientific, spiritual, or otherwise, is to admit that we do not really know. If we really believe that…
