A few months back, we looked at the story of Wallace’s views here and again here. Now, thanks to an online premiere, here’s the movie (HT: ENV): [youtube hxvAVln6HLI] Relax, enjoy, and discuss. END _____________ F/N: to understand Wallace, have a read of his major book published in 1910 ff, The World of Life (cf. Read More…
academic freedom
ID Foundations, 10: Alfred Russel Wallace takes on the attitude and assumptions behind methodolical naturalism
(Series) Alfred Russel Wallace is the all but forgotten co-founder of modern evolutionary thought. His major book reveals a bit of why, right from the title and sub-title: The World of Life: a manifestation of Creative Power, Directive Mind and Ultimate Purpose. In short, Wallace was a design thinker, and in fact he was also Read More…
Remember the criminal hyperlink? Released from detention for now …
So this is best seen as a temporary setback for the social engineers who could never build an Internet and can’t give up on the dream of controlling one.
Culture: Martin Luther King’s student followers would not be accepted on today’s campus
The ID controversy is a small but crucial part of a much larger battle for intellectual freedom and for truth that matters.
Toldjah: Don’t tell us “Oh, but that’s just China …” Listen.
All that needs to happen anywhere is that a bunch of opinion leaders, angered by the effective competition from the “nobodies” who blog, bend the ear of government about the dangers of unregulated opinion.
Someone noticed: Lawyers starting to weigh in on campus thought police
They might want to check into what’s happening to students too. They should see Expelled as well.
Profs start to worry about illiberal campuses – when it hits them
And now, when it comes to free speech, the profs will have to either put up or shut up – for their entire careers.
CONTEST! Best Response to Professor Pompous Gets Free Copy of “The Nature of Nature”
UPDATE: WE HAVE HAD SEVERAL FANTASTIC ENTRIES ALREADY. BUT THERE IS STILL TIME TO POST AN ENTRY. I WILL JUDGE THE CONTEST ON 7-26-11 A couple of months ago a young university student contacted my law office seeking help in a dispute she was having with a university here in Colorado. [To protect my client’s Read More…
Expell-ees you might not have heard about
They didn’t make it into the film. Caroline Crocker, author of Free to Think and currently executive director of AITSE (dedicated to rescuing science from the mudslide of “science”), reflected in her book on discovering that she was not alone, that the Expelled were quite numerous: There is companionship in troubles, and the more public Read More…
Paul Nelson asks: Why are young American scientists too afraid to appear in this video?
Claire Berlinski comments at Ricochet: “Seriously, if you could have seen how everyone scrambled to get out of the camera when I said we just want to talk about the interesting things we were talking about yesterday. And people are afraid. It would be the end of their careers.” Caption quote: “People who want to Read More…
Ivory tower economics explains part of why evidence is irrelevant to Darwinism
In “Climate of Fear: Big Science, Big Government” (Forbes, July 8, 2011), Patrick Michaels, lobbyist for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, admits, In his 1961 Farewell Address, Dwight Eisenhower famously predicted the rise of a “military-industrial complex,” in which he said, “The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and Read More…
We can still legally refuse to drink the Kool-Aid
In “Making Stories Visible The Task for Bioethics Commissions” (Issues in Science and Technology 27/2), Meera Lee Sethi and Adam Briggle explore claims made for science finds – under the banner, “Critical skepticism is always appropriate”: blockquote> Narrative explanations can help us understand difficult scientific issues, but they can also mislead us. Critical skepticism is Read More…
Stomping out independent thought, Campus USA
Caroline Crocker, author of Free to Think, on Darwin trolls harassing students on campus: At a recent conference in Hawaii I was approached by a group of about eight students lamenting about how only one side of the evolution issue is taught in their classrooms and that anyone who suggests that there may be scientific Read More…
She said it: Nancy Pearcey’s thoughtful article on how “Christianity is a Science-starter, not a Science-stopper”
One of the most common objections to design thought is the idea that it is about the improper injection of the alien supernatural into the world of science. (That is itself based on a strawman misrepresentation of design thought, as was addressed here a few days ago.) However, there is an underlying root, a common Read More…
He said it: Prof Lewontin’s strawman “justification” for imposing a priori materialist censorship on origins science
Yesterday, in the P Z Myers quote-mining and distortion thread, I happened to cite Lewontin’s infamous 1997 remark in his NYRB article, “Billions and Billions of Demons,” on a priori imposition of materialist censorship on origins science, which reads in the crucial part: It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel Read More…