Author: Joshua Youngkin
When Does the Right of Inquiry Begin?
To be a good liberal is to back academic freedom, not just at the university level, at which point it is often too late.
Making Religious Mountains Out of Fiscal Molehills
Surely the Guardian is not in the business of misleading readers to drive up views, so the case must at least be a little bit about creationism, or religion in schools, right?
From Safety of the Internet, Scientists Yell “Fight! Fight!”
Words like “random” and “natural” are often used to express a personal view on matters of ultimate causation, and that gets us into “the areas of the dead.”
Nagel Asks, Is the World Really Knowable?
Thomas Nagel’s important Mind and Cosmos has already received some attention on ENV — regarding Nagel’s respectful comments on intelligent design in particular.
Not Good at Thinking? You’re Probably a Nonscientist
“For a nonscientist it’s very difficult to figure out what to think …”