Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong? In their book, The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time: a Proposal in Natural Philosophy (Cambridge, 2014), Unger and Smolin caution that, “Science is corrupted when it abandons the discipline of empirical validation or dis-confirmation. It is also weakened when it mistakes its assumptions for facts and its […]

Should NASA Have Given $1.1M to a Theology Institute?  2014, NASA gave $1.1 million to the Center of Theological Inquiry, an independent institution “rooted in Christian theology.” The grant supports an initiative to study “the societal implications of astrobiology.” The Freedom From Religion Foundation asked NASA to withdraw the grant.