Category: Science Dogmatism
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Decline in religion, decline in morality.
Religious decline does not equal moral decline, says researcher. [1] How original. Stupid prejudiced science reaches to stupid prejudiced conclusions. We must be careful to compare things with the same standards. Morality has not declined based on our standards now, because our standards have demised into a pulp of liberalism. But morality and ethics is…
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Why does life exist? A very scientific (and theological) response…
Why does life exist? Popular hypotheses credit a primordial soup, a bolt of lightning, and a colossal stroke of luck. But if a provocative new theory is correct, the evolution of life could follow from the fundamental laws of nature and “should be as unsurprising as rocks rolling downhill”. From the standpoint of physics, there…
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Consciousness brain research: The scientific dogmatism of the philosophically untrained. [OR: TV: A new episode]
Intensive experimental research is conducted to understand how brain circuits control sleep-wake cycle and consciousness - an enigma in modern Neurosciences and an exciting key mystery to resolve. Together with fellow researcher Carolina Gutierrez Herrera and colleagues from Germany, Adamantidis made a dual discovery: his team identified a new circuit in the brain of mice…
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Changing the brain. Closing the TV…
Scientists showed that they could alter brain activity of rats and either wake them up or put them in an unconscious state by changing the firing rates of neurons in the central thalamus, a region known to regulate arousal. The study, published in eLIFE, was partially funded by the National Institutes of Health. (1) Increasing…
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![Velikovsky vs. Scientific establishment 5-0 [A story with comets, collisions, prejudice and some… water]](https://harmoniaphilosophica.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/immanuel_velikovsky.jpg)
Velikovsky vs. Scientific establishment 5-0 [A story with comets, collisions, prejudice and some… water]
Regarding myths, an incredible example is that of the Bible reference of the Sun stopping in the middle of the sky… Velikovsky studied the reports in the Bible of the Sun coming to a halt in the sky. Many people dismiss this story as completely absurd. But yet again a scientist should investigate every possible…
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