Month: December 2011
A Flower of Chivalry: Berlinski on Hitchens, 1949-2011
“Advancing calmly toward death” in full public view, his friends and retainers at his side, “proud of having been the instrument of the final, the fugitive, the anachronistic triumph of honor.”
Christopher Hitchens, RIP
Hitchens was a first-rate intellectual, a terrific writer and an effective provocateur.
Emory University Professor of Pedagogy Endorses Teaching the Evolution Controversy
The big secret of the debate over teaching evolution is that leading science education authorities agree that students learn the science best when they learn about scientific disagreements
Why Identical Twins Aren’t Identical: Epistasis and Its Evolutionary Implications
With every study that reveals another layer of complexity in the genome, it becomes more difficult to attribute evolutionary progress to an accumulation of random factors.
For a Sense of What Plantinga Means by the “Sensus Divinitatis,” See Malick’s Tree of Life
“I think there is such a thing as a sensus divinitatis, and in some people it doesn’t work properly,” Plantiga said.