Monthly Archives: September, 2008
The Royal Society’s Zeal
This week (Seeptembe 15, 2008) , the Royal Society, the United Kingdom’s national academy of science, forced Michael Reiss to resign from his position as director of education because of a speech he made in which he reportedly said that “creationism is best seen by science teachers not as a misconception but as a worldview,” …
Multiuniverse-metaphysics
Since the rise of modern science in the 16th century, science has been meticulous about what it will consider to be scientifically acceptable or even worthy of consideration, and what it will reject outright. Working in this framework, science has made stupendous progress in acquiring new understanding about the physical universe and extending the boundaries …