Author: Bruce Chapman
A Countercultural Appetite for Darwin’s Doubt
The standard Darwinian tactic is to ignore plausible counterarguments, and when that no longer suffices, to smear authors as creationists who don’t understand science.
George Gilder and Stephen Meyer on Creativity in Various Forms
A Forbes review of George Gilder’s new book, Knowledge and Power, describes the crucial role that information theory plays in Gilder’s new economics
Ball State Should Get on the Ball
A writer in the em>Fort Wayne (IN) News-Sentinel says the Freedom from Religion Foundation has provoked an “inquisition” into the teaching of a professor of physics.
Psychiatry as “Science” Controversy Grows
Slowly it is dawning on people that the borders of “science” are not hard; they bleed into other fields and cannot be construed as fixed.
Contagious Apophenia in the Senate
Misperceiving patterns and lessons from random information is a form of psychiatric disease called “apophenia,” a delusional condition the sufferer confuses with reality.