Month: December 2013
Bullies-R-Us: How “Freethought Oasis” Threatened “Disruption” and Pressured a College into Cancelling Intelligent Design Course
The outline of this story is now, sadly, a familiar one.
An Anthropologist Looks at Wallace and Darwin
Kathleen Bolling Lowrey examines the intellectual supports of modern evolutionary biology and singles out the weakest among them.
Butterfly Speciation: Mountains from Molehills
A study comparing genomes of three closely related butterflies makes bold claims about evolution in general.
The Multiverse: Where Everything Turns Out to Be True, Except Philosophy and Religion
Multiverse cosmologists look out on a bright future, freed from the demands of evidence.
Heisenberg on the Delusion of Scientism
The wisest approach to the study of nature is to keep an open mind, and to eschew dogmatic metaphysical presumptions.