Today, few would deny the central importance of science to our lives, but not many of the general public would be able to give a good account of what science is. To most, the word probably brings to ...

It’s probably best to get the bad news out of the way first. The so-called scientific method is a myth. That is not to say that scientists don’t do things that can be described and are unique to their ...

A new book suggests that traditional notions about “the scientific method” are flawed and misleading, as Robert P Crease discovers Messy business Science is less of a rigid process and more like a ...

THESE lectures formed part of a course on scientific method delivered at the University Extension summer meeting at Oxford last August. The discourses are intended to illustrate the forms taken by ...

Why the Christian worldview is the foundation of the method and spirit of science. In my university teaching experience, my Chinese students often tell me, “From the very start of our elementary ...

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