Tag: Washington University
Confronting Joshua Swamidass on Confrontation
Swamidass got it wrong, and it’s perfectly appropriate for me to confront him on that. I wasn’t talking about any approach to human argumentation at all.
An ID Debate: Joshua Swamidass and Günter Bechly
Joshua Swamidass is a computational biologist at Washington University in Saint Louis who says ID may or may not be true in some part of what it affirms.
Watch: Bechly and Swamidass Debate Intelligent Design
One highlight is Dr. Bechly’s summation of his scientific reasons for affirming intelligent design. This produces the response from host Justin Brierley: “Wow.”
In the Name of “Academic Freedom,” a Scientist Calls for Punishing Creationists
The practice has a sordid history. There’s always a rationale — for example, in labeling Israeli businesses, or those doing business with Israel, to be avoided.
Michael Behe: Kafka in Dover, Pennsylvania
Behe concludes here, “Courts are not good places to discuss ideas.” Yet ID critics continue to cite the Dover case as scientific gospel.