Weltliche Predigten

This collection contains 15 essays examining the basic assumptions of science, religion and mathematics. Can we decide what to believe? Why do scientists do experiments and what can their experiments show? Is evolution a scientific theory? Is science a rational enterprise? Should we invent alternatives to unrefuted theories? What is Einstein's influence on philosophy? These and other questions are discussed in papers, speeches and essays for a broader audience, covering main problems in the development of science. The author wants to provoke his readers to enter the now-discredited belief-systems of earlier ages in order to compare these with their own. He thus uses the history of science to reflect on theories of science in the past and the present, using critical rationalism as a tool to enrich our view of the world.