Author: Jonathan Witt
Evolutionists Could Learn a Thing from Dark Matter Physics
“When you don’t know what something is, you have to consider everything,” says Johns Hopkins physicist Simeon Bird.
Brangelina Fever Gets Its Own Darwinian Just-So Story
Darwinism is so flexible that it’s able to explain almost any zoological phenomenon and its opposite.
Richard Dawkins’s Weasel Program Is Bad in Ways You Never Dreamed
His reductive approach causes him to miss a delicious irony.
Guillermo Gonzalez, Nobel Laureates and Founders of Modern Science See Purpose as Best Explanation for Fine-Tuned Cosmic Habitat
In a weekend essay in the Des Moines Register, Iowa State Physics Professor John Hauptman explains that ISU astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez was denied tenure because Gonzalez argued that a purposive cause is the best explanation for certain features of our cosmic habitat. By this standard, Hauptman will also need to fire many of the most esteemed physicists and astronomers of our day, as well as the founders of modern science. Hauptman and his fellow thought police at Iowa State have their summer work cut out for them.
Intellectual Insecurity at Iowa State?
Following his May 16 piece, Lawrence Selden has more incisive commentary on the Guillermo Gonzalez denial of tenure scandal at Iowa State University: Is the faculty at Iowa State University intellectually insecure? The statement of two years ago signed by 120 members of the faculty perhaps suggests that, especially when compared with the actions of other schools and faculties. I wonder if they are afraid that others will think they are backward country bumpkins for allowing someone who is interested in exploring intelligent design on the faculty. Harvard University is not ashamed of Owen Gingerich, who had this to say about Gonzalez’ book The Privileged Planet: