"We are in 1642. January 6, to be exact. And that's when the miracle occurs: the great scientist Galileo Galilei, also known as Galileo in France, has just died for the second time, in his villa in Arcetri, in Florence. Why die for the second time? Because he had already died in …
Read more →Motivated by one of my discussion forums where a contributor spoke about Democritus and his phrase about chance and necessity, I let myself reflect on this latter. It was popularized by Jacques Monod, known as a great French biochemist, in his preface to Chance and Necessity. He …
Read more →What if we talked about finality? I can already hear people grinding their teeth. Oooooooooh, the nasty finalist! To the stake, to the stake! Obscurantist! Papist! Patagonian zulus! Werewolf with buttercup grease! Dishwater corpse!1 We're going to talk about finalism, finality, t…
Read more →"Hey, do you know Epicurus? Why aren't you Epicurean?" I'm often asked this question. I'll take pleasure in answering it, not in a thorough way, but directly: for a true critique of Epicureanism, in due form, I encourage you to delve into the classic refutation of utilitarian hed…
Read more →More precisely, by what scientific criterion can we say that an element of a physical network is (im)material? Since the scientific method works by studying effects to infer causes, how can one distinguish at the scientific level a material cause from an immaterial cause? One of …
Read more →Yoohoo! After a small survey of several months, I was finally able to establish the list of the main (=there are surely others!) reasons why many young people my age are not attracted to religion. Reasons for unbelief "I understood the theory of evolution." "There's no need for …
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