Year: 2017
The Search for Terrestrial Intelligence – An Exercise in Intelligent Design
Let’s turn the SETI telescope around. Would extraterrestrials be justified in inferring ID from patterns on the earth?
Hugh Hefner, Charles Darwin – The Connection
Hefner was a modern-day exponent of evolutionary relativism, which he restyled as the “Playboy philosophy.”
Claiming “Person” Status, the Colorado River Sues
The river’s lawyer and an environmental group win friendly coverage from the New York Times.
Post-Modern Science: The Illusion of Consciousness Sees Through Itself
“It’s quite plausible” is treated as equivalent to evidence, eliding the question of how exactly we come to “consciously believe” anything.
Freedom on the Football Field – How About in the Science Lab?
The scientific “consensus” has immeasurably more power to coerce and silence, and on matters of far greater importance, than the President of the United States does.