I’m proud to announce that my new series, “Saints and Simulators,” a book-length exploration of the intersection between religion and technology, is now live at the Partially Examined Life blog. Starting from the deliberately provocative[…]
Category: Science
Wokepedia: This is Us, Dudley Randall
The idea of Wokepedia is that ordinary people, working with intent, can make lasting changes to Wikipedia that will lead in more equable and less biased coverage of topics of minority interest, and promote a[…]
Chaos Monkey
Recently I attended a talk by a IT industry guru where he discussed Netflix’ trouble-making semi-autonomous software program, Chaos Monkey. Basically, this is a program they unleash on their production servers that randomly shuts down[…]
Race and Genetics
Since race is clearly still very much with us in our putatively post-racial society, it may be worthwhile to take a closer look at race, genetics, and the actual relationship between the two. It has[…]
MJD’s “Turing Test”
One of my first websites was a collection of stories from around what was then the much-smaller World Wide Web. Some of my favorites were by future Perl guru and Dischordian Mark Jason Dominus. I’m[…]
Science, Faith, and the Silver Chair
Of all children’s authors who have integrated their Christian beliefs into their writing, C.S. Lewis is perhaps the most famous and well-respected, both within and outside the faith community. His celebrated Narnia series is uncompromising[…]
Science
Third in a series on ending war. If Sport can neither take the place of War, nor of Consumerism, then how about Science and Technology? Together they compose a powerful economic engine, with advances in[…]
Can the questions answered by science be unlimited or limited by what can be investigated?
We have to define science first –let’s say it is the body of knowledge formed through the scientific method of testing hypotheses against verifiable empirical data. It becomes clear that there are a range of[…]
difference between philosophy & science
The simplest answer is that philosophy is concerned with questions of why whereas science is concerned with questions of how. In other words, if I ask “How do we convert coal to energy?”, that is[…]
Hi. If something is objectively true, does it have to fall within the realm of science, and does the fact that something does not fall within the realm of science prove its relativism? (Examples – art and ethics)
This is a great question. Unfortunately, the answer is surprisingly controversial and complex: The first challenge is figuring out what “objectively true” means. Most –but not all!– people believe there is a universe “out there”[…]