Category: Culture
On the Origin of the Controversy Over Biological Information: New Perspectives
There have been lots of false speculations from ID-critics on the Internet. Let’s now talk about what really happened, with a rough chronology of the relevant events.
New Scientific Volume, Biological Information: New Perspectives, Challenges Neo-Darwinism, Survives Evolution Lobby’s Attempt at Censorship
The book contains contributions from some prominent proponents of intelligent design, such as Michael Behe, William Dembski, Jonathan Wells, Douglas Axe, Ann Gauger, and others.
The Many Faces of Thom Hartmann
This is quite amusing if you relish the inanity of a totally substance-free critique of Darwin’s Doubt. And I do.
For Pinker’s Insufferable Scientism, a Satisfying Triple Smackdown
His essay in the New Republic, seeking to appropriate the word "scientism" as designating a good thing, wins the prize for the most off-putting, condescending title of the year.
Wesley Smith on the “Anti-Science Canard”
“The point of the slur is to avoid actual discourse by branding an intellectual opponent as irrational, theocratic, and/or reactionary.”