Category: Books of interest
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 […]
If life evolved, purposeless and unguided, why is there so much purpose and guidance within it?
| December 6, 2017 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Naturalism |
O’Leary for News’ review of . J. Scott Turner’s Purpose and Desire What Makes Something “Alive” and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It, at MercatorNet: A biologist awakens from reductionism and begins to rediscover life The basic problem, he contends, is that current biology requires us to view life forms as machines. Yet […]
New Theistic Evolution book doing quite well at Amazon
| November 30, 2017 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
Approx noon EST, Theistic Evolution: Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,915 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #2 in Books > Christian Books & Bibles > Theology > Creationism #13 in Books > Christian Books & Bibles > Theology > Apologetics #46 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > Religious Studies > Theology From the editorial reviews: — “This volume fills a wide and expanding gap for Christians who continue to struggle with the relationship of evangelical Christianity to the […]
Here’s a trailer for the new book critiquing “theistic evolution”
| November 15, 2017 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
Here’s the trailer for the new book, Theistic Evolution, with a foreword by sociologist Steve Fuller, who studies ID professionally. The Problem with Theistic Evolution from Crossway on Vimeo. Here’s the outline of chapters. Amazon is currently offering a 28% discount (November 30). Note: News posting will be light till this evening due to other […]
Philosopher exposes neo-Darwinian Daniel Dennett: Claims “so preposterous as to verge on the deranged”
| November 8, 2017 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism, Philosophy |
David Bentley Hart at The New Atlantis. “The Illusionist” is a longish essay, reviewing Daniel Dennett’s Bacteria to Bach and Back. Read it all but here are some highlights: In a sense, the entire logic of From Bacteria to Bach and Back (though not, of course, all the repetitious details) could be predicted simply from Dennett’s […]
What? Yet again?: Is evolution about chance or fate?
| October 26, 2017 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Media |
How about a better question: Are pop science media doomed? No, seriously, from Matthew Cobb, reviewing Jonathan B. Losos’ Improbable Destinies at New Scientist: Jonathan Losos, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University, approaches this through the contrasting views of the late Stephen Jay Gould and University of Cambridge palaeontologist Simon Conway Morris. Alongside the widespread phenomenon […]
Uncommon Descent Contest: What should we call the reviewer of a book on evolution who seems to be shouting Amen! fifty times? — judged
| October 15, 2017 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Uncommon Descent Contest |
Here. Years ago, we pioneered the term noviewer, to describe people who review books without reading them. Now a friend has written to ask for a contest to come up with term to describe the reviewer who is the author’s public relations specialist. For example, the book is called Darwin was right and the reviewer […]
