Tag: science
Darwinian Evolution Gets Left Behind
Though insightful into the tactics of what they call the “anti-scientific left,” Alex Berezow and Hank Campbell’s book Science Left Behind has some serious flaws.
How Do You Explain Your Opponents: Irrational or Ideological?
It’s possible to be totally rational, intelligent, logical, and wrong at the same time. Why can’t Chris Mooney recognize this?
Intelligent Design Is a Historical Science, Just Like Darwinian Evolution
We can “know” that an intelligent cause is the best explanation in precisely the same way that we infer materialistic causes.
Science Left Behind Can Teach Us about Political Tactics of Intelligent Design Critics
“The right is not more anti-science than the left; it just has terrible public relations.”
Chris Mooney’s The Republican Brain: Self-Therapeutic and Self-Refuting
The circular, self-serving nature of Mooney’s argument is hard to miss.