ISBN: 9781877361722 - falling-for-science-asking-the-big-questions (3 resultados)

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Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Feels unread. Brilliant examination of evolution vs creationism and of Intelligent Design by an award-winning author. 'What is consciousness? Is evolution compatible with traditional religion? Does time exist or is it just our way of ordering experiences? Could a machine ever think? What do scientists really mean when they call something a fact?' Modern science has unravelled the mystery of life, seen back to the dawn of time and peered down into the weird world of quantum mechanics. Small wonder then that people now look to science to answer the big metaphysical questions. In Falling for Science Bernard Beckett shows this instinct to be misguided. According to Beckett, the modern fashion for making scientists 'the High Priests of Everything' is mysticism in a lab coat. Here the author argues for a new model of scepticism, one which leaves scientists and story tellers to each get on with what they're best at. Beckett is a powerful, persuasive communicator who writes in the contemporary vein of popular science writers like Matt Ridley, Steven Pinker and Jared Diamond. With wit and not a little irreverence, Beckett offers a history of the ideas behind recent scientific development, and introduces the reader to arguments about the nature of consciousness, evolutionary biology, artificial intelligence - and more. Brilliantly unsettling, Falling for Science is compulsively readable.…

Paperback. Condición: Good. 253 pages. Cover wornModern science has unravelled the mystery of life, seen back to the dawn of t ime and peered down into the weird world of quantum mechanics. Small wonder than that people now look to science to answer the big metaphysical questions. In th is work, the author shows this instinct to be misguided. According to Beckett, t he modern fashion for making scientists the 'High Priests of Everything' is myst icism in a lab coat and argues for a new model of scepticism, one which leaves s cientists and storytellers to each get on with what they are best at. He is a co mmunicator, who writes in the contemporary vein of popular science authors like Matt Ridley, Steven Pinker, and Jared Diamond.…