Tag: philosophy
Methodological Naturalism: A Rule That No One Needs or Obeys
The only real motivation for holding to MN is to keep the bad guys at bay, as an all-purpose "Press Button in Case of Emergency" defeater for ideas like intelligent design.
A Solid 10: Concluding My Review of Massimo Pigliucci’s Treatment of Jonathan Wells’s Icons of Evolution
Pigliucci closes by acknowledging “the abysmal state of the textbook publishing industry.”
Icon by Icon: Responding to Massimo Pigliucci on Jonathan Wells’s Icons of Evolution
A fraud is a fraud regardless of who discovered it, and if evolutionary biologists discovered it, then good for them.
Answering Massimo Pigliucci’s Critique of Icons of Evolution
Before Pigliucci even begins his analysis, we see the kind of rhetorical attacks that are typical of evolution-defenders.
Flight from the Absolute: A Heavyweight Look at the Negative Impact of Modern and Postmodern Philosophies
At Discovery Institute, we are often sent unsolicited books by authors, and I must confess that we don’t necessarily have time to review them all.