Uncommon Descent Serving The Intelligent Design Community
Category

Culture

Type
post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 17, 2021
Categorized
Academic Freedom, Culture, Darwinism
Tagged
, ,

Is a Darwinian evolutionary biologist waking up to the world in which he is living?

Denyse O'Leary
July 17, 2021
Academic Freedom, Culture, Darwinism
Jerry Coyne: "It would be the ruination of American society, turning into an Orwellian nightmare." Fact is, Darwin's people imposed this on the rest of us for a long time. It's good if they are beginning to see, however dimly, the problem. Read More ›
Type
post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 16, 2021
Categorized
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, rhetoric
Tagged
, , ,

But the war IS actually on logic … and that’s the point

Denyse O'Leary
July 16, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, rhetoric
John West: "Reading the rest of her article I realized she simply didn’t know how to frame a proper comparison. She actually was attempting to malign those who support intelligent design, not those who tried to create panic over it. Apparently neither she nor her editor is particularly good with logic." But that’s the point. The whole enterprise is a war on logic. It's like the war on math and the war on science. And there is a sophisticated public for that now. Read More ›
Type
post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 14, 2021
Categorized
Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
Tagged
, ,

Historian Richard Weikart on acceptance of Darwinian evolution and racism …

Denyse O'Leary
July 14, 2021
Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
Richard Weikart: I have done a good deal of research on this topic, and as it turns out, the vast majority of white supremacists today embrace Darwinian evolution and use it as evidence for their white supremacy. Read More ›
Type
post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 13, 2021
Categorized
Culture, Evolution, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution
Tagged
,

Our Danish correspondent Karsten Pultz on how evo folk and ID folk think differently when arguing

Denyse O'Leary
July 13, 2021
Culture, Evolution, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution
ID has the benefit of being able to argue for design by comparing to objects we know for certain were intelligently designed. Evolution does not have this advantage. Read More ›
Type
post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 10, 2021
Categorized
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
Tagged
, , , , , ,

Science historian Michael Flannery offers resources on Darwin and racism

Denyse O'Leary
July 10, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
It may be helpful to keep in mind that opposition to slavery was not a radical position for a British gentleman like Darwin. Britain’s economy did not depend on slavery and most of the injustices of the Industrial Revolution were done to people who were not technically slaves. The issues around exploitation in his own environment were fought out on different grounds. Read More ›
Type
post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
June 30, 2021
Categorized
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ,

Günter Bechly’s remarkable journey

Denyse O'Leary
June 30, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
Klinghoffer: Bechly stresses that his view is motivated solely by scientific considerations. Yet colleagues at his institution tarred him as a “creationist,” made his work there impossible, and he ultimately resigned. He had thought that free speech still counted for something in Germany, even if it was threatened in the United States. Wikipedia sought to make him a nonperson, too, by erasing his entry. Read More ›
Type
post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
June 30, 2021
Categorized
Culture, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Philosophy, Science

When Woke invades science…

Denyse O'Leary
June 30, 2021
Culture, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Philosophy, Science
Sadly, cancer isn’t racist. Nor is Alzheimer syndrome. They can’t be fought by rallies or civil disobedience, which we could all just do. Not just anyone who cares can be a science researcher. A war on math, for example, as “white supremacy” will simply prevent progress. Read More ›
Type
post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
June 21, 2021
Categorized
Culture, Intelligent Design, Media, Peer review, Science
Tagged
, , , , , ,

Nature attempts to paper over a genuine and reasonable lack of trust in China over COVID-19

Denyse O'Leary
June 21, 2021
Culture, Intelligent Design, Media, Peer review, Science
This matters to us because it bears on the fate of science in general, as China becomes a global superpower. Nature Editorial: "Such trends are likely to continue if geopolitical tensions with the United States worsen. That would be regrettable." No, it wouldn’t be “regrettable.” Not so long as China cannot be trusted. Read More ›
Type
post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
June 20, 2021
Categorized
Academic Freedom, Culture, Intelligent Design
Tagged
,

Off topic: The Cancel Culture ragtag volunteer army of censors

Denyse O'Leary
June 20, 2021
Academic Freedom, Culture, Intelligent Design
Malicious envy was always out there but before social media it could rarely assemble so large a mob. But that’s a challenge, not a prophecy. We ID types can help fend them off. We are used to fighting Cancel Culture. Read More ›
Type
post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
June 19, 2021
Categorized
Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
Tagged
, ,

At Physical Chemistry Letters: The Perils of Politicizing Science

Denyse O'Leary
June 19, 2021
Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
Cancel Culture: People who could not advance by achievement advance by thinning out the ranks above them by denouncing the societal sins du jour that they can stick on them, truly or falsely. NOT going out on a limb here: Most Cancel Culture types actually wouldn’t care about the same offenses, if practised by people who advance their interests. Mediocrities can’t afford to be that fussy. Read More ›
Type
post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
June 18, 2021
Categorized
Culture, Intelligent Design, Peer review, Science
Tagged
, , ,

That time they invented scientists as well as research papers…

Denyse O'Leary
June 18, 2021
Culture, Intelligent Design, Peer review, Science
The Googlebot soon found the papers and [fictional] Antkare was credited with 101 papers that had been cited by 101 papers, which propelled him to 21st on Google’s list of the most cited scientists of all time, behind Freud but well ahead of Einstein, and first among computer scientists. Read More ›