Author: Michael Egnor
Ross Douthat Knows Jack (Kevorkian)
Kevorkian was the hero of the recent hagiographic film You Don’t Know Jack, starring Al Pacino as the thanatologist license-revoked doctor.
Jerry Coyne on the Banality of New Atheism
The salient characteristic of atheism is its banality.
Can a Computer Think?
The Turing test isn’t a test of a computer. Computers can’t take tests, because computers can’t think. The Turing test is a test of us. If a computer “passes” it, we fail it.
Jerry Coyne’s Blacklist of ID Scientists
Notwithstanding Coyne’s absolute assertion that scientists who “adhere” to ID are unemployable, Coyne actually claims that his professional exclusion of scientists who endorse ID is not anti-religious bigotry.
Jerry Coyne: “…adherence to ID… should be absolute grounds for not hiring a science professor.”
If this is Coyne’s ‘abhorrence of religious discrimination in science,’ what would Coyne’s advocacy of religious discrimination look like?