At the beginning of his classic History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell offers the following distinction between philosophy, theology, and science: […]
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Are theological theories falsifiable?
There is a popular, but altogether mistaken idea that scientific theories differ from theological (or philosophical) ones in that the former […]
epistemology, falsification, science, theologyA Scientist’s Creation Story
Bill Nye: Science Guy: A Review
Where I grew up in south-central British Columbia in the 1980s, we had four channels from Seattle on our limited […]
Bill Nye, Bill Nye: Science Guy, fundamentalism, Ken Ham, review, science, scientismIs the biblical God ignorant about science?
In “Did the biblical concept of God evolve from polytheism?” I reprinted one of the opening statements from my 2013 […]
apologetics, biblical revelation, debate, God or Godless, John Loftus, scienceReflections on Astrophysics and Young Earth Creationism
Last week astrophysicist Aksel Hallin spoke at Taylor Seminary. Dr. Hallin is the Professor and Canada Research Chair for Astroparticle […]
Aksel Hallin, astrophysics, science, young earth creationismThe Top Five Reasons I didn’t like the Young Earth Creationist on “Unbelievable”
This past week “Unbelievable” with Justin Brierley featured a young earth creationist named John Mackay in debate with theistic evolutionist […]
science, Unbelievable, young earth creationismOn Scientific (and Philosophical and Theological) Ignorance
Today I came across the following retweet courtesy of Secular Outpost. (I must say, Twitter is an endlessly fecund resource […]
epistemology, philosophy, science, theology“There is no evidence for…” On the unqualified and indefensible claims of bad apologists
A few months ago I was approached by an individual after a speaking event. “Do you believe in evolution?” he […]
apologetics, evolution, historical Jesus, science, Victor StengerIs there a better way to know than science?
A reader named “Oliver” posted the following questions in the thread to my article: “How the British Humanist Association undermines […]
epistemology, knowledge, science, scientism