Tag: skeptics
How to Discuss Intelligent Design with Skeptics
There is so much misinformation about the theory of intelligent design that many well-intended people reject not the actual theory but a silly caricature.
Iconoclast: Farewell to Tom Bethell
I remember having an exchange with Tom about the meaning of his last name, which seems to correspond to the Biblical place name Beth El, meaning “House of God.”
Excerpt: Letter to the Journal of Chemical Education
Unlike philosophy journals — or high school newspapers — many science journals are unwilling to publish responses by people attacked in their pages.
Is Joe Blow “Anti-Intellectual”?
Joe wonders how a scientist could be so wrong and still keep his job.
Religion, Science, and Evolution: Confessions of a Darwinian Skeptic
As I read through the scientific literature of evolutionary biology to try and convince myself of its accuracy and coherence, I was struck by the frequency with which I encountered “religious” language.