Month: June 2012
In Science and Human Origins, Casey Luskin Reveals the “Big Bang” of Human Evolution
If you try to grasp the logic of life’s history from an exclusively etiological perspective, you’ll be left puzzled by sudden inexplicable developments that seem to defy all sense.
Dennett on Competence without Comprehension
In Turing’s contribution to computer science, Daniel Dennett finds proof that a reductionist, materialist understanding of life and cognition is well in hand.
Is “Academic Freedom” Another Way to Say “Religion”?
The 1987 creationist Louisiana law at issue in Edwards is very different from the academic freedom law in Tennessee.
How the Genome “Decides” Where to Splice
This sounds very much like computer programming, where options are programmed into the code, but the code is not itself making the decisions.
Training Non-Skeptics One Course at a Time
To get specialized training in, say, embryology, you’ve first got to learn to argue from Darwin to Darwin.