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More to Explore --Worldview Theme #5A: Scientific Materialism |
| The
Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe by Roger
Penrose (summary of 2004 book from online encyclopedia) |
| ENCODE:
The Human Encyclopedia (Sep 5 2012 report from Nature on
project to catalogue the human genome) |
| The
Origins of Scientific Materialism (1940 article from the journal Theosophy) |
| The
Blind Watchmaker (about this classic book by evolutionary
biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins) |
| Blind
Watchmaker Applet |
| The
God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins (book review of 2006 book) |
| The
Soul Fallacy by Julian Musolino (interview
with author of book published in 2015 by Prometheus Books) |
| A
Series of Fortunate Events –Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life,
and You by Sean B. Carroll (book
review by Ivor Knight on Science website) |
| Evolution
May Be Purposeful And It’s Freaking Scientists Out by Andrea Morris
(from Forbes June 22 2024)
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| New
research into the dying brain suggests the line between life and death may
be less distinct than previously thought by Alex Blasdel (from The
Guardian April 2, 2024) |
|
Proteins
let cells remember how well their last division went by Jon Timmer (report
posted on ARS Technica March
29 2024) |
| Biology--What
is an organism? (from The Economist June 17 2023) |
| Human
Cell Atlas (report from AAAS
meeting posted on The Economist March 11 2023) |
| Astronomy
Is Abuzz With This New Theory About Black Holes And Dark Energy
by Kate Nicholson (from Huffington Post Feb 16 2023)
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| Physicists
Rewrite a Quantum Rule That Clashes With Our Universe (report from Wired
and Quanta magazine Dec 18 2022) |
| One
of the Biggest Problems in Biology Has Finally Been by Tanya Lewis
(from Scientific American Oct 31 2022)
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| Scientists Made a Breakthrough on Life’s Origin and It Could Change Everything by Becky Ferreira
(from Vice October 3 2022) |
| Origin of Life Theory Involving RNA–Protein Hybrid Gets New Support
by Davide Castelveechi (from Nature May 18 2022) |
| “New
Insight Into Possible Origins of Life: For the First Time Researchers
Create an RNA Molecule That Replicates”
(from Univ. of Tokyo Mar 18
2022)
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| The
future of physics (report from The Economist August 28 2021) |
| Biology
Briefs: Cells and How to Run Them (report from The Economist
August 7 2021) |
| Consciousness
Is a Cultural Add-on — A Product of History Not Reducible to Neurology,
Conscious Interiority Is Like Mathematics By
Brian J. McVeigh (Mar 2 2021 article) |
| “Origins
of Life” by Michael Marshall (article about the "chemoton
model" posted on National Geographic website December 14 2020)
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| "Computational
Biology -- The Shape of Things to Come" (report about
predicting protein shapes; from The Economist December 5 2020)
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| Consciousness
Cannot Have Evolved By Bernardo Kastrup
(Feb 5 2020 article) |
| Scientists
have discovered a form of natural selection that doesn't rely on DNA by
Nicoletta Lanese (report from livescience.com Jan 21 2020) |
| “A
Realist Takes on Quantum Mechanics”
by Graham Farmelo
(review of book by Lee Smolin in Nature Apr 9 2019) |
| "Longshots:
spreading life to the galaxy"
(panspermia--planting life elsewhere,
report from The Economist Apr 14 2018) |
|
“What
Astronomers Wish Everyone Knew About Dark Matter And Dark Energy” by
Ethan Siegel (astrophysicist's article
posted on Forbes
Apr 9 2018) |
| "Ghosts
in the Material World" by John Gray (philosopher uses ghost
stories to discuss materialism in May 3 2013 essay published by BBC
News) |
| "Pondering
a Universe Without Purpose" by Lawrence Kraus (April 1 2012 essay
by physicist from The LA Times) |
| "Deepak
Chopra's God 2.0" by Michael Shermer (July 28, 2010, blasts
quantum flapdoodle rendition of God) |
| Faith,
Reason, God, by Cornelia Dean, NY Times (reviews of books by
scientists (some believers, some atheists)) |
| Edge
(online thought-provoking website exploring questions "at the edge of
the world's knowledge") |
| From
Complexity to Life: On the Emergence of Life and Meaning ed. Niels Henrik (review
of this 2003 book) |
| Information
Theory, Evolution, and the Origin of Life, by Hubert Yockey (preview
of 2005 book at Google Books) |
| Why
Evolution Works (and Creationism Fails), by Matt Young and Paul Strode
(read excerpts of 2009 book at Google Books) |
| National
Center for Science Education (dedicated to defending the teaching of
evolution in public schools) |
| Life
on Earth: Instructions in Three Billion (tiny) Letters or Less (2006
UCTV program) |
| Origins
of Life: Papers Supporting Idea That Quantum Processes Were Involved
(from Quantum Mind) |
| "New
Glimpses of Life's Puzzling Origins" by Nicolas Wade (June 15,
2009 article in NY Times Science) |
| Darwin's
Gift: to Science and Religion, by Francisco Ayala (2007 book w/
"rational, measured perspective") |
| Synthetic
Biology: Life is a Six Letter Word (report from The Economist Dec
2 2017) |
| "The
Interface Theory of Perception" by Gregory
Hickok (September
2015 review of theory related to how mind evolved by Donald Hoffman, etal) |
| "A
basic ingredient of life, ribose, can form in comets, say researchers"
by Christian Schroeder (April 2016 news report from CSM) |
| "How
Did Biology Begin?"
(science brief from The Economist August 8, 2015) |
| "Virtual
Biology: Computer Worms" (report on effort to make world's first
simulated organism from The Economist May 24, 2014) |
| "Uniter
of Sperm and Egg is Found" by Erika Hayden (article about
discovery of protein critical to conception, on Scientific American April
18, 2014) |
| Synthetic
Biology: DIY Chromosomes (article from The Economist Mar 29
2014) |
| "Animal Mechanics:
A Bug With a Gearbox" (report from The Economist Sep 14 2013) |
| "Near
Death Experiences are Electrical Surge in Dying Brain" by Rebecca
Morelle (report
from The BBC News Aug 12 2013) |
| "Resurrected
Protein's Clue to the Origins of Life" by Simon Redfern (article
from The BBC News Aug 8 2013) |
| "Astrobiologists
Find Ancient Fossils in Fireball Fragments" (Mar 2013 report from
MIT Technology Review) |
| NASA's
Origins website (explores questions like "Where Did We Com From?,
Are We Alone?") |
| DNA--The
Double Helix (educational exploration from nobelprize.org) |
| Outer
Space Nurseries, by Robert Cowan (Aug 2006 report that
"chemistry that gave rise to life on Earth may have begun in
space") |
| Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter by Terrence Deacon
(more on this 2011 book from Amazon.com) |
| The
Artificial Life Project (mission is "to
promote and assist in the engineering of artificial life") |
| The
International Society of Artificial Life (ISAL) (conferences and
conference proceedings on this topic) |
| "And
Man Made Life" (article in The Economist May 22
2010) |
| "Seeing
God...How the Brain Creates Out of Body Experiences and Religious
Epiphanies" by Oliver Sacks (Dec 2012 article on The Atlantic
website) |
| Out
of Body Experience Recreated (report on scientists' inducing OOBE
using virtual reality goggles) |
| "Are
Spiritual Encounters All in Your Head? by Barbara Hagerty (part of
five part series on NPR, May 2009) |
| "Scientist
Creates Life--Almost," by Alice Park (article in Time
February 4 2008) |
| BBC
News Report on Craig Venter's Progress Toward Goal of Creating Life in the
Lab (June 2007 story) |
| Scientism:
Philosophy and the Infatuation With Science, by Tom Sorell (read
portions of this at Google Books) |
| The
Scientific and Medical Network: An International Interdisciplinary Forum
for People Exploring Worldviews Beyond Materialism |
| The
Shamans of Scientism by Michael Shermer
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| "Does
the Universe Have a Purpose?" ( multiple perspectives from (from the John Templeton
Foundation website)
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| "Does
Science Make Belief in God Obsolete?" (from the John Templeton
Foundation website) |
| International
Society for Complexity, Information, and Design (rejects evolution,
supports intelligent design) |
| "Why
Everyone Should Learn the Theory of Evolution" (from January 2009
Scientific American on Evolution) |
| Should Science Speak to Faith?
(July 2007 Scientific American article provides two perspectives)
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| Worldwide
Corruption of Scientific Materialism (Islamic perspective) |
| positive
Atheism |
| Science,
Religion, Politics, Law and Education (evolution and creationism by
Tim Berra) |
| The
Godless Fundamentalist, by Lakshmi Chaudhry (review of The
Root of All Evil: Richard Dawkins' documentary) |
| The
Religion of the Blind Watchmaker (a critical look by Phillip Johnson) |
| The
Unraveling of Scientific Materialism, by Phillip Johnson |
| "What
is Consciousness?" (science brief report from The
Economist September 12 2015 |
| "Sizing
Up Consciousness By Its Bits" by Carl Zimmer (article from
Science section of NY Times Sept 20 2010) |
| Materialism
and the Mind Body Problem, by David Rosenthal (read portions of this
book at Google Books) |
| Life
2.0 by Lee Silver (a June 2007 article about rewriting life's genetic
code from scratch) |
| Anti-Scientism:
Which Side Are You On? (May 2007 post by Robert McHenry with
commentary by others) |
| Questioning
the Scientific Worldview
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|
Manifesto
of Scientists Who Accept the Paranormal (product of Feb 2014
conference at Univ. of Arizona, Tucson) |
| Charles
Tart article (has good discussion of "Science and Scientism
in the Modern World") |
| How
Does Consciousness Happen? (October 2007 Scientific American
article) |
| quotes
about atheism |