Tag: atheism
Evolution Has Not Been Kind to Jerry Coyne
The design we infer in nature is an insight we abstract from our senses, but the inference itself is acquired by our reason.
“Who Designed the Designer?”: Egnor Addresses a Perennial Challenge
Because the challenge is perennial, and because we’re not all philosophers, it’s good to come back to it from time to time.
Jerry Coyne on Our “Divinity Sense Organs”
Sir David Attenborough, an agnostic, invokes a rather nice metaphor about a termite mound.
Milton and the Psychology of Materialism
It is basically the denial of human exceptionalism. That is, it is hatred of man, in practically every way imaginable.
Stranger on a Plane: Lessons from Flatland
In 1884, English clergyman Edwin A. Abbott published a work of scientific and mathematical fantasy.