Tag: Richard Dawkins
On Darwinism and the Abdication of Reason
It is a pity that Darwin’s homeland no longer boasts a satirist of the caliber of Thomas Love Peacock to exploit this rich seam of comic absurdity.
The Success of Mathematics in Advancing Intelligent Design: A Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse
If there’s one thing that Rosenhouse does well in this book, it is to misrepresent intelligent design and its use of mathematics.
Carl Sagan: “An Intelligence That Antedates the Universe”
It’s the evidence from Sagan’s fiction and other popular writing that is especially provocative.
How Darwin and Wallace Split over the Human Mind
Marvelously free of racist prejudice, Wallace noted in his fieldwork in far-flung locations that primitive tribes were intellectually the equals of Europeans.
Study: “Most of Our Evolutionary Trees Could Be Wrong”
This refutes one of the favorite talking points of popularizers of Darwinism like Richard Dawkins.