Human evolution: National Geographic reports on the prehistoric Iceman autopsy
MSNBC on the very old land dweller that got oxygen from fool’s gold (pyrites)
Responses to the Good Word from Giberson in the New York Times
String theory portal to another universe?
Reb Moshe: Dawkins is chicken … which we all knew, but he says it better.
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Can the forces of reason tame the devil within us?
Steven Pinker wants to challenge the claim that “The twentieth century was the bloodiest in history”. Those who advance this idea are said to be numbered among “the romantic, the religious, the nostalgic and the cynical”. The reason why they make the claim is “to impugn a range of ideas that flourished in that century, including science, reason, secularism, Darwinism and the ideal of progress”. However, according to Pinker, there is no substance to this “historical factoid” because historical records are better as we come closer to the present time, because it is a human trait to overestimate the frequency of wars (“vivid, memorable events”) and because we care more about violence today. Against all this, Pinker asserts that there Read More ›
Animal minds: Do wolves need to be smart? – a computer model
Limits of Darwinism hinted at
How we live with bacteria even though they hate us and we hate them
Neutrinos may be faster than light, but published papers on them are not
Universe: Don’t expect any corrections to the textbooks, but …
“Liar, liar, pants on fire”? Ten Tough Questions for Professor Dawkins.
For several years now, Professor Richard Dawkins, the renowned evolutionary biologist and author of The God Delusion, has refused to debate the topic of God’s existence with the philosopher and Christian apologist, Professor William Lane Craig. That is Professor Dawkins’ privilege; he is under no obligation to debate with anyone. Until recently, Dawkins’ favorite reason for refusing to face off against Professor William Lane Craig was that Craig was nothing more than a professional debater. But now, in an article in The Guardian (20 October 2011) entitled, Why I refuse to debate with William Lane Craig, Richard Dawkins leads off by firing this salvo: “This Christian ‘philosopher’ is an apologist for genocide. I would rather leave an empty chair than Read More ›