Tag: Michael Ruse
Moran: Sternberg and Behe “Appear to Know More About Evolution than Their Opponents”
The whole point of selection was to bias or direct the deliverances of chance variation, so that “luck” didn’t have to do all the work.
In Debate on Intelligent Design, Critic Cites Dragon Legend to Justify Evolution’s Failures
It is, as Professor Behe acknowledges, a charming tale, but not very relevant as far as the details of the scientific debate go.
New! Philosopher and Mathematician David Berlinski on “Science After Babel”
“Many will read this book for the close, elegant reasoning, the astonishing erudition, or the mordant analysis. I confess I read it for the prose.”
Cambridge UP Book Airbrushes Darwin’s Contribution to Scientific Racism
Darwin’s racist and pro-eugenics thinking, combined with some implications of his theory that he expressed, laid the groundwork for Hitler’s diabolical outlook.
Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Appealing to the Unwashed Middle
Rosenhouse’s book is objectively bad. It purports to be a critique of mathematics as used by ID proponents and of my mathematical work in particular.