Category: Books of interest
Nature editor’s five best 2018 books include two of our favs
| December 8, 2018 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Cosmology, Intelligent Design |
When Nature’s Books and Arts editor Barbara Kiser’stop five for 2018 came out, #s 1 and 2 were Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray by Sabine Hossenfelder on the troubled state of theoretical physics, of which Kiser says, Lost in Math is a firecracker of a book—a shot across the bows of theoretical physics. […]
Darwinian biologist Jerry Coyne denounces Michael Behe’s forthcoming book unread
| November 16, 2018 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Cell biology, Darwinism, Intelligent Design |
Of course, just now, one suspects that it is mainly the editors in Frisco who have pored over it. But now, Darwinian evolutionary biologist Jerry “Why Evolution Is True” Coyne tells us,l Michael Behe, author of the intelligent-design (ID) creationist books Darwin’s Black Box and The Edge of Evolution, has a new book coming out next […]
A peek at Mike Behe’s new book Darwin Devolves
| November 14, 2018 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Darwinism, Evolution |
Here: While Stephen Colbert has called Michael J. Behe the “Father of Intelligent Design,” Behe’s arguments have been called, “close to heretical” by the New York Times Book Review, and Richard Dawkins has publicly taken him to task for his “maverick” views. Wherever he goes, Behe makes waves, but has remained singularly focused on doing […]
Jerry Coyne continues to be unhappy over David Quammen’s book on Carl Woese
| September 25, 2018 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Cell biology, Culture, Darwinism, Evolution, horizontal gene transfer, Intelligent Design |
Readers will remember science writer David Quammen’s new book, The Tangled Tree:A Radical New History of Life, a biography of Carl Woese, who first identified the Archaea (and doubted Darwinism). They will also doubtless remember Darwinian evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne, who does not life Tangled Tree, and… Well, he still doesn’t like it and has […]
Mind of the Maker spotlights mathematics as evidence for design in nature
| August 5, 2018 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Intelligent Design, Mathematics |
A recent book, Science and the Mind of the Maker: What the Conversation Between Faith and Science Reveals About God , by Melissa Cain Travis might be of interest. According to one of the Amazon reviews, One of the areas in the book that is unique and very interesting is the discussion about mathematics. The […]
New biography of the original ID guy, Alfred Russel Wallace
| August 5, 2018 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Culture, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
Klinghoffer: A spiritualist, libertarian socialist, women’s rights advocate, and critic of Victorian social convention, Alfred Russel Wallace was in every sense a rebel who challenged the emergent scientific certainties of Victorian England by arguing for a natural world imbued with purpose and spiritual significance.
Sociologist Steve Fuller’s new book on post-truth in science
| May 28, 2018 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science |
Sociologist Steve Fuller, who has written competently about ID, has a new book out. From the publisher: ‘Steve Fuller takes the concept of post-truth to a new level of analysis, explaining the history of “meta” thinking about truth, the institutional structuring of truth through “rules of the game”, and the forms of knowledge that go […]
Review of Darwin’s Doubt slams ID theorists for not publishing in Darwinist-run journals
| May 6, 2018 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Peer review |
From Daniel Muth at Living Church, reviewing Steve Meyer’s Darwin’s Doubt: I am fairly certain that there are thoughtful and potentially influential intellectual movements that have been subjected to more shameful and inexcusable misrepresentation and ill treatment than Intelligent Design (ID), but the list is not long (Roman Catholic teaching on artificial birth control comes […]
Science historian on Darwinist Ken Miller’s new book, The Human Instinct: Asserting consensus in the midst of growing conflict
| May 5, 2018 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design |
From science historian Michael Flannery at ENST, a review of Brown University’s Ken Miller’s The Human Instinct: How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will Miller is one of those “settled science” bullies. Here he sets his sights on essayist Marilynne Robinson’s 1998 collection, The Death of Adam. According to Miller, Robinson is […]
Darwinian biologist Jerry Coyne takes on skeptical mathematician David Berlinski
| April 30, 2018 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Culture, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
From Darwinian biologist Jerry Coyne at Why Evolution is true, on mathematician and Darwin skeptic David Berlinski. I’m not sure how David Berlinski manages to make a living, but he does live in Paris, which ain’t cheap. Although he’s a Senior Fellow with the ID Creationist Discovery Institute, that can’t pay much, and his science […]
God’s perfect proofs? Are there such things?
| March 21, 2018 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Naturalism |
From Erica Klarreich at Quanta: In January, Ziegler traveled to San Diego for the Joint Mathematics Meetings, where he received (on his and Aigner’s behalf) the 2018 Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition. “The density of elegant ideas per page [in the book] is extraordinarily high,” the prize citation reads. The 2014 book is Proofs from […]
At least the Soviets knew enough not to believe Pravda
| March 12, 2018 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Intelligent Design, Media, Off Topic |
Here’s my (O’Leary for News) review of James O’Keefe’s American Pravda: My Fight for Truth in the Era of Fake News (off-topic, unless you intend to rely on them in any way for communications): — Has North American journalism gone undercover? If traditional media were doing their job, few people would have heard of James […]
New book: How will religions deal with extraterrestrial life?
| February 11, 2018 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, Religion |
Religions and Extraterrestrial Life: How Will We Deal With It? by David A. Weintraub: In the twenty-first century, the debate about life on other worlds is quickly changing from the realm of speculation to the domain of hard science. Within a few years, as a consequence of the rapid discovery by astronomers of planets around […]
The bombardier beetle, the toad, and – after all these years – Mike Behe
| February 8, 2018 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity |
From Susan Milius at ScienceNews: In a lab face-off, 43 percent of Pheropsophus jessoensis bombardiers escaped alive after being swallowed by toads, a pair of researchers at Kobe University in Japan report February 7 in Biology Letters. These lucky beetles were vomited up — in one case, 107 minutes after being gulped — covered with […]
Doubtful Finnish scientist discovers just how intellectually curious Darwinists are
| February 6, 2018 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design |
Curious to find and shun, then destroy, all evidence-based doubt. Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design by Matti Leisola and Jonathan Witt here: What happens when an up-and-coming European bioscientist flips from Darwin disciple to Darwin defector? Sparks fly. Just ask biotechnologist Matti Leisola. It all started when a student loaned the Finnish […]
Jonathan Wells: Wilson’s book on Darwin is flawed but he is right on a key point
| February 2, 2018 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design |
Readers may recall A. N. Wilson’s book, Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker. Jonathan Wells reviews it at Washington Times. He notes the historical errors but says, Mistakes in historical details, however, are not what infuriated Darwin’s defenders. The problem is Mr. Wilson’s irreverent attitude toward Darwin’s theory of evolution. Mr. Wilson points out that there is […]
Actually, it isn’t ID that’s breaking up; it’s Darwinism
| January 26, 2018 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
From Tyler O’Neil at PJ Media, on a new book, Four Views on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design (J. B.Stump, ed), Opponents of intelligent design (ID) usually dismiss the theory as unscientific, an attempt at smuggling religion into science through a back door. They slam it as a “god of the gaps” argument — inserting […]
New Nancy Pearcey book: Does naturalism drive the scandals in tech culture?
| January 7, 2018 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Culture, Intelligent Design, Naturalism |
From Soul of Science co-author (with Charles Thaxton) Nancy R. Pearcey at Fox News, Silicon Valley’s drug-fueled, secret sex parties — One more reason to hate the hookup culture Before reaching campus, students are primed by high school sex education courses that typically focus on the physical: on the mechanics of sex and the avoidance […]
Theoretical physicist has a hard time convincing peers to accept reality
| January 6, 2018 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Naturalism |
We feared this would happen. From Sabine Hossenfelder at BackRe(action): Sometimes I believe in string theory. Then I wake up. But then I got distracted by a disturbing question: Do we actually have evidence that elegance is a good guide to the laws of nature? The brief answer is no, we have no evidence. The […]
Science historian: AN Wilson’s Darwin biography contains a baseless charge, factual errors
| December 21, 2017 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Culture, Darwinism |
We’d heard that. But of course, the Twitterverse could nuke tweet such a claim to depress sales. We waited till science historian Michael Flannery read it. He says yes and worse at Evolution News & Views: But my uneasy sense of déjà vu turned to dismay when I read Wilson’s claim that Darwin did more […]
