Author: David Klinghoffer
Yale’s Gelernter: To Challenge Darwinism Is to “Take Your Life in Your Hands”
Fully as important as David Gelernter’s personal apostasy is his testimony about what happens to scientists who choose to “judge for themselves.”
Irreducible Complexity Defeated? Behe on Ken Miller’s Mousetrap Tie-Clip
At a conference, says Miller, “I removed two parts from a mousetrap (leaving just the base, spring, and hammer), and used that 3-part device as a functional tie-clip.”
Life’s Hard Stop: Fortune? Or Foresight?
Here’s another “incredibly fortunate” thing about the Cambrian explosion and about evolution generally.
Tour: A “Time Out” for Origin-of-Life Community
The media narrative goes on, and the scientists, when they protest, direct their protests not so much at the media as at the skeptics and mavericks, such as Tour himself.
Back-to-Back, Failed Visions of the “Brain as a Supercomputer”
Douglas Hofstadter argued in much the same vein as Henry Markham, that the brain can be understand in rules-bound machine terms.