Category: Culture & Ethics
With Evolutionary Psychology, “It Ain’t Necessarily So,” Says New Yorker Writer
Anthony Gottlieb waves regular evolution (of the body) through all the checkpoints while (humorously) examining claims that various forms of behavior are “adaptive.”
Newly Discovered Notes Reveal C.S. Lewis’s Early Doubts about Darwin
Previously unpublished notes of C.S. Lewis shed light on his views about Darwin and skepticism of Darwinian evolution.
Shock! Intelligent Design, Darwin Doubts Get Respectful Discussion in New York Review of Books
This has been a week of nice surprises!
E. O. Wilson Stumbles on His Conscience
In his new book, E. O. Wilson can’t avoid moralizing. But if everything in life is produced by evolution, what’s there to care about?
How James Clerk Maxwell Rescued the Humanities in Verse
Few may realize that James Clerk Maxwell, the 19th-century physicist on par with Newton and Einstein who gave us electromagnetic theory, was a poet. One of his best takes materialists to task in playful yet incisive wit.