Category: Culture & Ethics
Do Admirers of John Scopes Embrace What Their Hero Actually Taught?
Jerry Coyne of Why Evolution Is True recently went so far as to have himself photographed embracing Scopes’s grave.
Jerry Coyne Ponders the P-Value of Motherly Love
The scientific method is applicable in only a small part of our lives, and it is one of our least reliable ways of knowing.
C.S. Lewis and the Advent of the Posthuman
We read Lewis as a friendly uncle; we need to encounter him as a fiery prophet.
Scott Adams, of Dilbert Fame, Wishes Agony and Torture Upon Us
The default of speaking decently in public goes by the boards with an alarming frequency among those who give up on the idea of an "overruling intelligence" that guides life.
An Uneven Classic: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World
It’s worth recalling, if just a mite belatedly with respect to the 50th anniversary of his death, Huxley’s well-known work of science fiction.