What would spiritual scepticism look like? My latest blog on The News Hub is called “Do we need a healthier model of scientific scepticism?”
Here is an excerpt:
As fellow scientist David Pruett observed in the Huffington Post: “The authors of the manifesto are all scientific mavericks whose viewpoints are not mainstream. It’s worth noting, however, that neither were Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, or Einstein mainstream. All challenged the scientific status quo, and all were eventually vindicated by the canonization of their once-radical views.”
Perhaps the best known of these “maverick” manifesto authors is Dr Larry Dossey, physician and bestselling author, who recently critiqued “the doctrine that the real world consists simply of the physical world”, something he termed “physicalism”…