Category: Science
At First Things, Columnist Stephen Webb Gives Intelligent-Design Critic Stephen Meredith an Education
Lately, when someone writes about intelligent design in a conservative magazine and he actually knows how ID theorists argue, it’s a cause for celebration.
Fallacies of Contemporary Neuroscience: "A Vast Collection of Answers, with No Memory of the Questions"
Here is a stunningly accurate way to describe the modern fallacy of attributing mental acts to physical brain processes.
War on Humans: Denmark Joins Sweden, Norway, and Other Nations in Banning Kosher Slaughter
A Danish minister’s comment could be fairly rephrased, "Animal rights come before human rights."
My Brother Asks: Do You “Believe” in Evolution?
I find that an odd way to put the question, with its connotations of religious belief, about a thesis that is supposed to be purely scientific.
Jerry Coyne Notwithstanding, as an "Explanation" for the Rise of Complex Animal Life, Oxygen Is Now Eliminated from the Running
There’s nothing about lower oxygen levels on Earth that would forbid the rise of early animals.