Tag: Politics
Evolution’s Iron Curtain
A graduate student in evolutionary biology shared some comments with me about life in the closet.
Science, Scientism, and the “Intellectual Yet Idiot”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, of Black Swan fame, offers a wonderful and insightful tirade.
The World is Watching: Teach the Evolution Controversy to Foster Science Literacy
In teaching about origins, teachers could do a lot more to introduce “argument and debate.”
A Dehumanizing Ideology Unsurprisingly Catalyzes Violence
Ideas have consequences. That includes reducing human beings to animals or meat robots, deprived of free will or any claim to human exceptionalism.
Brave New World Should Be Campaign Issue
Human cloning is being perfected, we are already engaging in embryonic experiments into genetic engineering, and there is a great silence.