Category: Culture
Jerry Coyne on the Scientific Method and Religion
The scientific method — the empirical systematic theory-based study of nature — has nothing to so with some religious inspirations — and everything to do with Christian (and Jewish) inspiration.
Evolution as a Political Speed Trap
Today’s American Spectator contains a column by Jay Richards and David Klinghoffer on “the speed trap” of presidential politics. Their advice is sympathetic and sound.
Texas Reviewers Reject Accurate Evolution Curriculum Because It “Contradicts Biology Textbooks”
At this point it should be evident that some Texas review committee members must live in alternative universe (or they are Darwin lobbyists)
Jerry Coyne on Why Darwinian Medicine Is so…so…Amusing
Darwinian Medicine is a fertile science, and all sorts of insights emerge with surprising little thought and even less science.
Jerry Coyne and Darwinian medicine
Medicine depends on actual scientific understanding of disease mechanisms and therapeutics. Speculation about evolutionary origins is of no tangible value to the medical profession.