Science

Philippine Science High School has the potential to be our developing nation’s intellectual equivalent of the moon landing.

People in highly influential positions such as parents, teachers, and clerics, whom other people (most especially children) look up to as sources of truth, continue to preach against evolution while hardly knowing anything about it. In most cases, arguments against evolution revolve around citing Bible verses or attacking straw man versions of the theory.

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In this part, we are going to move away from the tedium of proving everything with truth tables, going towards handy rules of inference. Think of these as shortcuts when trying to find out if someone’s statements make sense.

The purpose of this two-part primer is to introduce you, the reader, into the wonderfully complicated and interesting world of logic, the language which every internet intellectual claims to know so much about.

 “But It’ s The Solar System!” In keeping with the spirit of Year of the Solar System, I am going to write...

With the advent of neuroscience, it has become increasingly more difficult to defend free will.

How far are the planets with respect to each other?

The existence of religious scientists only proves, as Sam Harris observes, that good ideas can live with bad ideas in the same head.