History & Philosophy
mobi |eng | 2000-01-15 | Author:Michael J. Behe & William A. Dembski & Stephen C. Meyer

Part 1: The General Failure of Demarcation Arguments To show that design “can never be considered a scientific pursuit,”14 biologists and others have asserted that design does not meet certain ...
( Category: History & Philosophy December 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-12-11 | Author:Richard Carrier

4. IN PRAISE OF THE SCIENTIST In Science Education in the Early Roman Empire I explored to what extent science and natural philosophy held a relatively marginalized position in ancient ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 11,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-03-24 | Author:Nicholas Wade

The Evolution of Religion The essence of religion is communal: religious rituals are performed by assemblies of people. The word itself, probably derived from the Latin religare, meaning to bind, ...
( Category: Evolution December 10,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1993-08-15 | Author:Charles Darwin [Darwin, Charles]

Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection as Applied to Instincts: Neuter and Sterile Insects It has been objected to the foregoing view of the origin of instincts that “the ...
( Category: Evolution December 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-02 | Author:Bruce Watson [Watson, Bruce]

CHAPTER 11 Lumière: France’s Dazzling Century The urchin of present-day Paris … is at once a national emblem and a disease. A disease that must be cured. How? By light. ...
( Category: History & Philosophy December 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-12 | Author:Martin Lee Mueller

Since its beginnings, modernity has advocated a kind of “narrative hegemony,” the expectation that one “right” story would emerge by virtue of technological and moral progress. The modern story was ...
( Category: Anthropology December 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-21 | Author:David Berlinski [Berlinski, David]

If the Standard Model is a triumph, is not one that is unalloyed. The Standard Model cannot explain the transition from the elementary particles to states of matter in which ...
( Category: Religious Studies December 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-09-14 | Author:Charles A. Murray & Catherine Bly Cox [Murray, Charles A. & Cox, Catherine Bly]

1 “Flight Operations was not born effective,” one veteran reminisced. “It became effective.” Back in 1959, when the Space Task Group was first struggling to put the program together, nothing ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science December 4,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Dumouchel & Luisa Damiano

Radical Embodiment and the Future of the Social Robotics of Emotion The idea that the nature of affective relations needs to be reconsidered, and the dynamic of emotions and empathy ...
( Category: History & Philosophy December 3,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:Lewis Wolpert

His conjecture had been shown to be right. Consider now the famous disagreement around 1910 between Robert A. Millikan in Chicago and J. Ehrenhaft in Vienna, which has been studied ...
( Category: History & Philosophy December 3,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Editors of Portable Press

RANDOM ORIGIN CELL PHONES AT&T first tested mobile phones for use in Swedish police cars in 1946. To develop the technology in the United States, they needed approval from the ...
( Category: History & Philosophy December 3,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:Steven Kotler

3. So what will this concept look like in our lifetime? Already, Planetary Resources has raised over $1.5 million to help launch the ARKYD 100 space telescope, which is specifically ...
( Category: Social Sciences December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2014-03-10 | Author:Nancy Forbes & Basil Mahon

Yes—I know the forms that meet me, but are phantoms of the brain, For they walk in mortal bodies, and they have not ceased from pain. Oh! those signs of ...
( Category: Physics December 2,2017 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-09-06 | Author:Deborah J. Bennett

Weldon used these artificial data as a teaching tool, since it was so easy for an audience to see how a pattern could arise from even random data like dice ...
( Category: Philosophy December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2014-03-05 | Author:Patrick Tucker

The End of Teaching It’s January 2012, the setting is the Ethiopian village of Wenchi, which sits on the rim of a volcanic crater lake some eleven thousand feet above ...
( Category: Engineering December 2,2017 )