Month: October 2012
How Do You Explain Your Opponents: Irrational or Ideological?
It’s possible to be totally rational, intelligent, logical, and wrong at the same time. Why can’t Chris Mooney recognize this?
Intelligent Design Is a Historical Science, Just Like Darwinian Evolution
We can “know” that an intelligent cause is the best explanation in precisely the same way that we infer materialistic causes.
Upward and Onward with Peer Review, Cont.
“I read over the ‘provisionally accepted’ paper. It is obvious to me, non-mathematician, that it was completely incoherent, and never would have made it.”
Spiders Have Eight (Well-Designed) Eyes
Spiders are good for scaring people at Halloween, but they’re really intelligently designed animals more scared of us than we are of them, with eight eyes to alert them of our approach.
Science Left Behind Can Teach Us about Political Tactics of Intelligent Design Critics
“The right is not more anti-science than the left; it just has terrible public relations.”