Tag: Richard Dawkins
As Alan Dershowitz and the New Film Alleged Remind Us, at the Heart of the Scopes “Monkey” Trial Was a Very Scary Book
“The highest type of all, the Caucasians, [are] represented by the civilized white inhabitants of Europe and America.”
How Ignorance Insulates the New Atheists
Intelligent design isn’t an argument for religion but it, or something like it, would have to be true if any traditional faith is to be taken as true. Yet the New Atheists do not seriously contest the evidence that ID offers.
Protecting “Public Intellectual Life”
“Progressives” in science and other fields increasingly deal with serious opponents by belittling them and ruling their arguments out of order.
Butterflies Set to “Mess with Texas” Tonight at Southern Methodist U.
Texas will host its own premiere of the intelligent-design documentary Metamorphosis tonight.
Listening to Butterflies
The metamorphosis of butterflies represents “the magic of reality,” in Richard Dawkins’s wonderful phrase, where actual, not made-up or fictional, biology is so astonishing that its power to move us never goes away.