Month: November 2011
You Can Now Watch the Craig-Dawkins Non-Debate
How much would you pay for the pleasure of seeing Dawkins actually confront Craig live on a stage and try to answer him substantively?
The Religion Behind SETI
Carl Sagan “believed in superior beings in space, creatures so intelligent, so powerful, as to resemble gods.”
Putting Human/Chimp Genome Comparisons in a Meaningful Context
Knowing that ENV’s readers include many teachers and other educators, I thought I would offer a brief teaching idea, especially for those who have their students submit papers to SafeAssign or some similar plagiarism-detection software.
With a Startling Candor, Oxford Scientist Admits a Gaping Hole in Evolutionary Theory
This just in: A rather basic question fundamental to any evolutionary account of life’s development — how “genotypes generate phenotypes,” in other words how genes build an individual creature — remains totally obscure to science.
New Film Exposes Bigotry and Junk Science of Early Twentieth-Century Darwinists
The scientific community can be dominated by a dogmatism that subverts rational thought and an honest evaluation of the evidence. Intriguingly, this truth seems to have been recognized by none other than John Scopes later in life.