Scientific fraud is rife: it's time to stand up for good science The way we fund and publish science encourages fraud. A forum about academic misconduct aims to find practical solutions Peer review happens behind closed doors, with anonymous reviews only seen by editors and authors. This means we have no idea how effective it [...]
Quotations Albert Einstein (During a lecture) This has been done elegantly by Minkowski; but chalk is cheaper than grey matter, and we will do it as it comes. [Attributed by Pólya.] Quoted in J E Littlewood, A Mathematician's Miscellany, 1953. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. Reader's Digest. Oct. 1977. I don't [...]
The first ever photograph of light as both a particle and wave by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Phys.org)—Light behaves both as a particle and as a wave. Since the days of Einstein, scientists have been trying to directly observe both of these aspects of light at the same time. Now, scientists at EPFL have succeeded [...]
Orality, Literacy and the ‘Seven Aḥruf’ Ḥadīth Yasin Dutton Journal of Islamic Studies, Volume 23, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 1–49, Published: 15 November 2011 Abstract The well known ḥadīth that the Qurʾān was revealed according to seven aḥruf (ʿalā sabʿati aḥruf) indicates that a certain amount of variation in the text of the Qurʾān was considered legitimate, indeed normal, in [...]
Dr Zakir Naik vs Dr William Campbell Prt 2 (1 of 7) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdA07nqqszA Dr Zakir Naik Vs Dr William Cambell Prt2 ( 1 of 7 ) Link collected : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdA07nqqszA
Doctors Who Say They Died and Went to Heaven. Medical Mystery: Is Heaven Real? Doctors Who Say They’ve Been There A new wave of doctors are changing the way we think about death - revealing that they too believe in heaven because they say they’ve been there themselves. What one doctor says is new proof [...]
Does God Exist? William Lane Craig vs. Christopher Hitchens – Full Debate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tYm41hb48o On April 4, 2009, William Lane Craig and Christopher Hitchens met at Biola University to debate the question of God’s existence. Craig is one of the world’s foremost Christian apologists. Hitchens, is a leading spokesman for the “new atheism” [...]
Detecting Design in the Natural Sciences By William A. Dembski [word count: 2106] How a designer gets from thought to thing is, at least in broad strokes, straightforward: (1) A designer conceives a purpose. (2) To accomplish that purpose, the designer forms a plan. (3) To execute the plan, the designer specifies building materials and [...]
The Chance of the Gaps William A. Dembski 1. Probabilistic Resources Statistical reasoning must be capable of eliminating chance when the probability of events gets too small. If not, chance can be invoked to explain anything. Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of [...]
Findings of Research Misconduct A Notice by the Health and Human Services Department on 09/06/2012 ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) has taken final action in the following case: Marc Hauser, Ph.D., Harvard University: Based on the report of an investigation conducted by Harvard University (Harvard) and additional analysis conducted by [...]
