Category: Science
What Is Teaching Evolution All About?
Adam Laats and Harvey Siegel offer a seemingly humane and generous compromise on teaching evolution in public schools.
Ice-Cold Water on Past Alien Civilizations Thesis
What human beings are — cosmic flotsam or creatures potentially in a designer’s image — is the background dilemma to all discussions of evolution.
Stephen Meyer on a “Special Relationship” at Risk
We spend a lot of time here criticizing the legacy of a 19th-century English gentleman scientist and the ideas of his latter-day followers.
Common Descent: An Obituary
Common Descent (CD) has been offered as a scientific theory and must therefore be judged as such.
Carnivorous Plants, and Why 0 Really Is Not Equal to 1
There is a little mathematics game that people sometimes play. You start with x=0, do some long, complicated algebraic manipulations, and end up with x=1.