Tag: book review
Three Memories of William F. Buckley
For Buckley on evolution, see here. I’m enjoying the new bio of him very so far, but am prepared to start joining the critics as I read further.
Critic Josh Swamidass Meets Michael Behe Tonight at Texas A&M
Someone had a clever idea: stage a debate between biologist Michael Behe and his critic Joshua Swamidass on “God and/or Evolution?”
Review: Heretic Takes Aim at Science’s Third Rail
“Well, we can’t touch the third rail, so the question becomes, How can we safely get past it?”
No, Trees Are Not People Too
Novelist Barbara Kingsolver seriously asserts, in her review of a novel in which trees are characters, that they are people too.
New Book Sheds Light on the “Dark Age”: The Religion vs. Science Myth Exposed
The alleged “ignorance” of the medieval Church whose cherished dogmas included the belief in a flat earth, geocentric theory of the universe, and a hidebound biblical literalism is all challenged with insight and skill by this Oxford/Cambridge graduate and PhD in the history of science.