Tag: Lucretius
Hello, Stuart Kauffman
Kauffman is one of the more interesting participants in the debates about the nature of life.
Three Thousand Years of Darwinism
I began to suspect that Darwinism was being taught at school in a somewhat philosophically decontextualized way, lacking historical background.
Science Versus the Oldest Anti-Intelligent-Design Argument
Translation: Everything that exists was made not by intelligent design, but rather by the random arrangement and rearrangement of atoms.
Meet the Materialist Magicians
As our first case study, let’s look at Gary Nolan. Nolan is a distinguished immunologist at Stanford who believes that aliens are visiting Earth.
Richard Dawkins and the Law of Unintended Consequences
The New Atheists’ failure to understand the nuanced way that “ordinary people” think was a profound strategic error.