Tag: religion
New York Times on Plantinga’s New Book on Science and Religion
The only problem is that the Times story seems to have created a supply problem.
California Science Center Bookstore Sells Kids Book that Bashes Religion While Promoting Evolution
Here’s a book for kids that concocts a story about how the church and religious ideologues supposedly persecuted Darwin
The Face of a Frog: Time-Lapse Video Reveals Never-Before-Seen Bioelectric Pattern
Laura Vandenberg, lead author on the paper, says in the video that “the finding suggests that what we thought about how cells know what to make is incomplete.”
The Magic of Reality: Richard Dawkins’s Latest Attempt to Produce Young, Angry, New Atheist Clones
What do you get when the world’s most influential atheist teams up with a tarot card illustrator to write a book for younger readers?
Jerry Coyne vs. NCSE, AAAS, & NAS
In a recent blog post titled “Truckling to the Faithful: A Spoonful of Jesus Helps Darwin Go Down,” University of Chicago biologist Jerry Coyne firmly and publicly rejects the attempts by Darwin-lobbying organizations like the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) to convince the American public that Darwinism and Christian faith are compatible. In case these organizations really want to know my opinion, I’m on Jerry’s side. Except that I’m only mostly on his side. You see Jerry is spot on when he writes But any injection of teleology into evolutionary biology violates precisely the great advance of Darwin’s theory: to explain the appearance of design by a purely materialistic process — no deity required. In a letter to his Read More ›