Category: Culture & Ethics
Berlinski on the Idea of “Proof”
Laura Snyder gives a very nice review to David Berlinski’s biography of Euclid, The King of Infinite Space, in the Wall Street Journal.
Pope Francis, Evolution and the Curia
The Pontifical Academy of Sciences is run by staff that is friendly to scientific materialists and hostile to many orthodox believers who are scientists.
Richard Dawkins Ranks Live Pig Above Human Fetus
Dawkins, Pinker, Coyne et al. are the new advocates for eugenics.
Wesley Smith on Scientism and The Magician’s Twin
“Science is an extremely powerful method of obtaining and applying facts and knowledge. But science, per se, is amoral.”
From Yale University Press, a New Book Demonstrates Haeckel’s Social Darwinism as Hitler’s “Favored Resource”
Ernst Haeckel was one of the most widely read evolutionists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the man who did more than anyone to popularize Darwin’s theory in Germany.