Less, perhaps, than meets the eye …

… dangerous idea: Jerry Coyne on reductionism. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

I can't say that I find this especially illuminating. If I follow — and I'm not sure I do — it would seem that the validity of the proposition that "all sciences are in principle reducible to the laws of physics" is to some degree or in some way dependent on whether or not you are religious. As to whether all science can be reduced to physics, well, we have to wait and see about that, though probably only posterity will learn for sure, maybe. Talk about fuzzy reasoning.