Category: Culture
What Should John Scopes Have Taught His Students About Human Evolution?
Eugenic racism in 1925 was consensus science. Would Jerry Coyne have Scopes teach the consensus, or the controversy?
Bullies-R-Us: How “Freethought Oasis” Threatened “Disruption” and Pressured a College into Cancelling Intelligent Design Course
The outline of this story is now, sadly, a familiar one.
Heisenberg on the Delusion of Scientism
The wisest approach to the study of nature is to keep an open mind, and to eschew dogmatic metaphysical presumptions.
Coyne Toss: Who’s Your Hero?
Now with the passing of Nelson Mandela, Dr. Coyne turns cluelessly from one embrace to another.
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.