Month: August 2013
For Pinker’s Insufferable Scientism, a Satisfying Triple Smackdown
His essay in the New Republic, seeking to appropriate the word "scientism" as designating a good thing, wins the prize for the most off-putting, condescending title of the year.
Exaptation, aka Co-Option: Still a Favorite Darwinian Excuse for Complex Adaptations in Nature
“Feathers, for example, did not originate for flight but may have helped insulate or waterproof dinosaurs before helping birds fly.”
Straw Men Aside, What Is the Theory of Intelligent Design, Really?
Many critics of intelligent design have promoted false, straw-man versions of ID.
Wesley Smith on the “Anti-Science Canard”
“The point of the slur is to avoid actual discourse by branding an intellectual opponent as irrational, theocratic, and/or reactionary.”
Hedin Witness #3: "This Course Made Me a Better Learner"
For those keeping score at home, that’s now three eye-and-ear witnesses for Dr. Eric Hedin to Ball State University’s zero.