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Professor Pynes Rails Against the “Straw-Man Fallacy” while Attacking a Straw-Man Version of Intelligent Design
This is not at all how ID proponents have formulated their theory.
“Bad Textbooks”: Not Because of Texas, but Despite Texas
In The New York Review of Books, Gail Collins has a piece titled “How Texas Inflicts Bad Textbooks on Us.”
Anti-ID Philosopher: “Ad Hominem” Arguments “Justified” When Attacking Intelligent Design Proponents
It would be the height of na�vet� to assume that scientists are always (or indeed ever) completely devoid of personal motives unrelated to the scientific question at issue.
RNA Export Is Like Basketball, Only Better
Imagine playing basketball blindfolded, but having an assistant pull the ball through the net when you get close. Now you have an idea how messenger RNA molecules make it out of the nucleus.
Of Monarchs and Protestors
One of the Emory scientists who led the protest against Ben Carson’s appearance as a commencement speaker has a new paper out that doesn’t help evolution.