Category: Culture
Meyer and Klavan: How the Multiverse Ruins Science…and Storytelling
“The multiversal Marvel Cinematic Universe is a world without narrative stakes, moral meaning, or tragedy, because it is a world without consequences.”
Revising the Linnaean System: Where to Locate Viruses? And the Problem with Mitochondria
The venue for a remarkable call for government censorship of science was a peer-reviewed biology journal.
Did Chess Ace Hans Niemann Cheat? A Design Detection Poser
At first glance the problem might seem far removed from the design detecting rules William Dembski laid out in his Cambridge University Press monograph.
The Relevance of Intelligent Design to Science and Society: A Primer
“ID is one of the foundational ideas in the history of civilization. It has deep roots in the Jewish and Christian traditions and among non-Christian thinkers.”
William Wordsworth’s Posthumous Challenge to Darwinian Nihilism
Paradoxically, Wordsworth’s theology may have formed a more effective counterforce to Darwin’s ideas than Biblical orthodoxy itself.