Scientific faith vs Religious faith

Explores the different meanings of the word, "faith", and how confused usages of it cause people to incorrectly equate evidence-free supernatural faith with evidence-based rational faith.

Saturday, October 4, 2025

Popper's Falsifiability and its Decline

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Karl Popper introduced the philosophical concept of falsify ability. In the 1930's, he wrote The Logic of Scientific Discovery. In it h...
Saturday, April 8, 2023

Free will - what are we even talking about?

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Free will is a confusing and slippery term—like "belief" or "faith", used in many different ways by different people. Wh...
Tuesday, July 2, 2019

What does it mean to "Understand" something?

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WIP - summary of what it mean to understand. Do you actually have to "experience" the thing you are attempting to understand (pr...

What constitutes a "good explanation"?

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Why do people value hearing a good explanation for things they don't understand? Explanations for the current weather, for why someone w...
Saturday, February 18, 2017

White Priviledge Ad Hominem

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I was recently told by a (now former) Facebook friend that I didn't have the right to ignore the "situation with Trump" (now a...
Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Scientific Certainty

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I recently had a conversation with a fellow skeptic regarding scientific certainty, specifically that we cannot be 100% sure of the correctn...
Thursday, October 6, 2016

What is Science (according to Kevin Lyon)

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Kevin Lyon is a Professor in the Science department at Jones County Junior College, Ellisville, MS. He was interviewed in an episode of the ...
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