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Scientific Orthodoxies
Back in the 1970s, when my wife Celeste was in the seventh grade at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in the Bronx, her teacher, a Holy Cross Brother, tried...
Who Rules in Science? An Opinionated Guide to the Wars
Who Rules in Science? is a marvelous book that ranges from the most basic questions to the most contentious: the author considers not only how we should use reason...
A New Kind of Science
One should hesitate to review a book that threatens pulling a muscle just by lifting it. Apart from the danger to one’s health, it likely will turn out to...
God…Sort of
The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life.By Paul Davies.Simon & Schuster. 400 pp. $25. Paul Davies should need little introduction to readers of First...