But just wait till a career academic gets a grant to cast doubt on the obvious interpretation, and win Lewis back for Darwin.
Month: August 2014
If anyone cares, Biologos (Christians for Darwin) will now actually review Darwin’s Doubt
But Meyer is #6 in paleontology. So who cares whether Calvin College’s God would design anything or not? Sorry, issues have moved beyond Christians [heart] Darwin
Christianity Today online piece tries to meld neuroscience and Christian spirituality
Both come off looking like clunkers.
“Meaningfulness” genes study torn apart by critic in journal article
About time someone started outing the nonsense instead of peddling it.
Caution: Neuroscience quackery in the boardroom and classroom
Much of the quackery seems to consist of repackaging common sense marketing or motivation techniques as “neuroscience,” and upping the price.
Still legal to say this about Darwinism and “scientific racism”?
A day before yesterday everyone knew that Darwin’s theory underwrote racism as a *science-based* belief. Then it became un-PC to say so.
Mark Frank poses an interesting thought experiment on free will
In a comment on kairosfocus’ latest excellent post, Does ID ASSUME “contra-causal free will” and “intelligence” (and so injects questionable “assumptions”)?, Mark Frank proposes a thought experiment in support of his view that determinism is fully compatible with free will. It goes as follows: Start with a dog. Dogs make choices in the sense that […]
Have we discovered how fish first learned to walk on land?
But if they are that plastic, wouldn’t they just go back to the water, given a chance?
E. O. Wilson: Give half the planet to wild animals
At some point, wouldn’t you think at least some commentators would start putting two and two together about some of these people?
Experiment to test whether we live in a 2-D hologram
If the general thesis is accepted, would it provide support for the Law of Conservation of Information, which William Dembski uses in his new book Being as Communion?
On, the fallacy of worshiping the “short” and the “simple” . . . or, why good long copy outsells short copy
As UD regulars will know, it’s silly season here in Montserrat. As a result, I am facing the long vs short copy debate and the issue of the demand for excessive simplicity. Which, opens us up to be naive and easily misled — including when we indulge the fallacy of selective hyperskepticism. (As in: if […]
Fri Nite Frite: Have we done a snake frite lately?
May as well be snakes.
News of a primitive Cambrian fish?
If this interpretation of the fossil holds up, the vertebrate class was present in the Cambrian too.
Has “philosophical superficiality” harmed physics?
Carlo Rovelli: Science has never advanced in this manner in the past. Science does not advance by guessing.
Coffee!! A thigh bone found on Mars?
Beats the face on Mars, but we’re still waiting for the silhouette of Sherlock Holmes.