Author: Mike Keas
Remembering Arthur Balfour, Friend of Science and Friendly Opponent to Atheist Bertrand Russell
This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the start of World War I — and this past week provided a terrible reminder that conflicts stirred by the war remain with us.
Term Limits: Eugenie C. Scott and the Retirement of “Darwinism”
Consider this sample of publications that have appeared since Eugenie Scott put her warning label on the term “Darwinism.”
Reason, not Revelation: Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Watchmaker
“I admire the workman in the details of his work, and I am quite certain that all these wheels only work together in this fashion for some common end which I cannot perceive.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Intelligent Design Advocate
According to a familiar accusation from critics of intelligent design, ID is nothing more than a recent invention of the Christian Right.