Category: Culture & Ethics
No Need to Save Nicholas Brown
Bruce Chapman observes that despite his alma mater’s having been named after a preacher, John Harvard, recent sentiment among the faculty goes against Harvard’s religious heritage.
Self-refutation and the New Atheists: The Case of Jerry Coyne
Their ideology is a morass of bizarre self-refuting claim
Richard Dawkins Sparks Debate on Child Abuse
Their scientific views aside, sometimes seeing what leading Darwin defenders have to say on other matters leaves you feeling like you’ve tumbled down the proverbial rabbit hole.
Jerry Coyne and Clarence Darrow on Free Will
The deterministic denial of free will leads not to utopia but to Dachau.
I Have to Answer Jerry Coyne’s Silly Blog Post on Determinism. I Have No Choice.
If Jerry has no free will, he didn’t choose to write his blog post. His blog post was determined by natural history and physical laws, not by intelligence.