Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by steven pinker viking, 576 pages, $35 Steven Pinker, as his blurb reminds us, has been reckoned by Time magazine among the “hundred most influential people in the world today.” In Enlightenment Now he devotes . . . . Continue Reading »
Looking to bonobos as co-architects of modern systems of morality is a troubling trend. Continue Reading »
Can people who are not scientists find a path to God through casual study of the physical sciences? After Kant, the standard answer has been “no.” He argued that human knowledge is structured by mental concepts that give the illusion of metaphysical knowledge, not its reality. These categories . . . . Continue Reading »
In January, news came out that Emory University received a $400 million gift from the Woodruff Foundation. All of it will go to healthcare and research. That’s $100 million more than Michael Bloomberg’s foundation gave to the school of public health at Johns Hopkins in September 2016. Emory’s . . . . Continue Reading »
My friends who work in scientific fields were aghast when they saw that the organizers of a planned “March for Science” had tweeted that “colonization, racism, immigration, native rights, sexism, ableism, queer-, trans-, intersex-phobia, & econ justice are scientific issues [black power . . . . Continue Reading »
However new space may be to humanity, we have not changed from the feeble creatures we always were. Continue Reading »
Neuroscience is confirming what Aquinas recognized long ago: Human beings are not purely material. Continue Reading »
Some of the great fathers of modern science were Catholic priests—proof that faith and reason can exist in harmony, as they still do today. Continue Reading »
Recent Trump appointee Charmaine Yoest has stated on previous occasions that abortion increases the risk of breast cancer, a position supported by science and denied by the mainstream media. Continue Reading »
Even chaotic debate (about cloning, gene therapy, and three-parent embryos) is preferable to our current, aimless drift. Continue Reading »
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