Scientists Ask, “Is Materialism Holding Science Back?”

Adam Frank, astrophysicists, biologists, consciousness, dualism, emergence, Güneş Taylor, Institute for Arts and Ideas, Lisa Feldman Barrett, materialism, Michael Levin, neuroscientists, perspectival view, Philosophy of Science, physicists, religion, scientific reasoning, spacetime, Stephen Hawking, straightjacket, superstition, third-person view, universe, University of Rochester, Werner Heisenberg, YouTube channels
Is materialism a straightjacket? The very fact that a respectable conversation is going on around this question tells us that something has changed. Source
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Ten Myths About Dover: No. 4, “The Dover Ruling Refuted Intelligent Design”

bacteria, bacterial flagellum, blood clots, Bradley Monton, Darwin's Black Box, David Berlinski, dualism, Education, Evolution, Genome Biology and Evolution, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Judge John E. Jones, Kenneth Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Laurence Moran, Legal Science (jurisprudence), Manyuan Long, Michael Behe, National Center for Science Education, peer-reviewed publications, puffer fish, scientific reasoning, Scott Minnich, Stephen Meyer, The Origin of Species, Tyler Hampton, University of Kentucky, William Dembski, word salad
Expert witnesses like biochemist Michael Behe and microbiologist Scott Minnich testified about how irreducible complexity makes a positive case for design. Source
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In Search of a Unified Theory of Life

Albert Einstein, Ambrose Bierce, biology, Carl Woese, complementarity, Darwin's Black Box, dualism, dualisms, Erwin Schrödinger, Essays on Life Itself, function, gravitation, Inertia, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, language, Life Itself, Mass, Michael Behe, molecular biologists, natural selection, phenotype, Philosophy of Science, physics, randomness, René Descartes, Robert Rosen, science of purpose, scientific atheism, scientific reasoning, scientism, structure, structure-function relationships, The Devil's Dictionary, What Is Life?
It can be said that Erwin Schrödinger anticipated what Michael Behe formally articulated as irreducible complexity. Source
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