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Appreciating Historian Jacques Barzun’s Critique of Darwinism
Barzun rejected the Darwinist insistence that purpose and design are illusory or epiphenomenal. He castigated scientism for its intellectual imperialism.
From Safety of the Internet, Scientists Yell “Fight! Fight!”
Words like “random” and “natural” are often used to express a personal view on matters of ultimate causation, and that gets us into “the areas of the dead.”
Darwinian Evolution Gets Left Behind
Though insightful into the tactics of what they call the “anti-scientific left,” Alex Berezow and Hank Campbell’s book Science Left Behind has some serious flaws.
How Do You Explain Your Opponents: Irrational or Ideological?
It’s possible to be totally rational, intelligent, logical, and wrong at the same time. Why can’t Chris Mooney recognize this?
Intelligent Design Is a Historical Science, Just Like Darwinian Evolution
We can “know” that an intelligent cause is the best explanation in precisely the same way that we infer materialistic causes.