Imagination and the Nature of Science
Posted by Joemar | Filed under Philosophy, science
Imagination is both a friend and a foe of science. It is a foe in the sense that it tends to be unrealistic, illogical and anti-scientific. It has a tendency to make something appear appealingly true without evidence. Examples of unbridled imaginations are myths, legends, fictions, and fabrications, among others. What science does is to [...]
Tags: myths, religion, science
“Life Could Not Have Come Through Random Mutations”
Posted by Joemar | Filed under science
As I survey through different blogs and websites and from conversations with certain friends on the topic of evolution, I can almost always encounter an argument that goes something like, “Life could not have evolved through random mutation”. This is supposed to be a short and crisp evolutionist stumper. Indeed, how could random mutations produce [...]