Dr Paul Allen

The global warming icon for the ubx. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people. — Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) September 15, 2014 "I am an atheist with faith in the scientific method" Weekend Australian magazine. Personally I don't have enough faith to believe in atheism, but that's another story. One result of our culture’s post-modernism is its entirely modern love affair with its own view of science. Once-upon-a-time, the word science referred to the scientific process : verifiable propositions, experimental procedures, and reproducible observations. And today? Science may still mean that in the dictionary , but in popular culture? Not so much. Instead, the concept of science stands in for anti-supernaturalism with a political agenda—which I assume has probably always been the case to some extent. But today’s science seems marked by a very unscienti...

English: Freeman Dyson (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Major revolutions in science are somewhat rare and frequently ignored by the nonscientist. A new book titled The New Story of Science hopes to make the most recent revolution more understandable. The book is the culmination of five years of collaborative effort by theoretical physicist George Stanciu and philosopher Robert Augros. They believe they hear the creak of masts and timbers as the ship of science alters the course plotted for it in earlier centuries. Every civilization has a cosmic worldview, or story. The scientific story that was gradually built up by research in physics and biology during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries was progressively materialistic. But now, argue these authors, science is shifting from this old story to a new story due to the startling discoveries of Einstein, Heisenberg, Sherrington, Eccles, and Penfield. In the early phases of modern science, theism was still dominant. Newto...