Even though they emphatically disagreed about design in nature. Michael Flannery tells the story.
Intellectual freedom
Our founder Bill Dembski is quitting Twitter, moving over to Parler
Dembski might also be leaving Facebook for the same reason: Too much censorship and news management.
Progressive mag blog sours on Cancel Culture when a progressive speaker gets Canceled
In reality, Cancel Culture, practised systematically, will tend to reward those with the fewest original ideas to offer and that should be reason enough to cancel it. People who can’t deal with ideas that upset them should just not be at a university for the same reasons as people who can’t stand the sight of blood should not work in an emergency room.
Darwin’s man Jerry Coyne has begun to worry about Wokeness
Coyne: But violence, looting, and rioting aren’t the main things I worry about. I worry about Wokeness.
Apparently, canceling Jordan Peterson didn’t really work
Douglas Murray: Peterson watchers will also notice that he signed off by saying that “With God’s grace and mercy” he hoped to complete some of the tasks which he lays out in it.
That notorious ID paper was the one most downloaded from the Journal…
Eventually, people, we are going to have to start rewarding the Darwinians for banning and persecuting advocates of design in nature. Look, guys, it’s only fair. Mediocrities steam themselves into near oblivion to destroy the idea and their efforts only fan the flames. Sadly, all we wanted was a serious discussion. We never asked them to be Roman candles.
A petition is going the rounds urging that Richard Dawkins be allowed to speak at Trinity College
ID types are urging people to sign the petition. Sign it if you like Uncommon Descent. Because we are just so NOT Cancel Culture.
Ethan Siegel at Forbes on “finally” making the United States a “scientific nation”
Siegel: “It is a fundamentally misinformative act to present multiple sides of a controversial issue equally when the scientific consensus overwhelmingly favors one perspective.” Actually, consensus is achieved in many ways, including some that contribute to the likelihood that the consensus will be wrong, no matter how many experts believe it. In fact, the surest way to often be wrong is to adopt the very attitude Siegel displays here.
Richard Dawkins is getting canceled again
Apparently, when Richard Dawkins said he was an atheist, some people didn’t realize that he rejected Islam along with Christianity. The stark reality is that the post-Christian student does not want to win a debate but rather to cancel it.
J. R. Miller vid faces YouTube restrictions
In a world where Netflix is streaming a show about underage sexpots, it’s hard to imagine what the Valley’s problem with this stuff could be. But a friend suggests that at roughly the 7-minute mark, the discussion turns to anti-Christian bias in Google search and recommends—whoops!— alternative services. Okay, so LIKE the vid and find a non-Google search service.
A fond remembrance of the 2005 book, “On Bullsh*t”
Gunderman: As discourse moves from television to Twitter, it can be further degraded into mere flamboyance. What matters is no longer speaking the truth but simply attracting and holding attention. Getting it right gives way to getting noticed.
Forrest Mims honored in dedication of new electronics book
Readers may recall that Forrest M. Mims III, despite his gifts in electronics and citizen science, was denied a column in Scientific American because he was not a Darwinist or a supporter of live baby dismemberment.
The Philadelphia Statement: Some scholars are fighting Cancel Culture
They probably don’t like the war on math or the war on science much. Or campus thugs.
Pos-Darwinista asks us to be aware of censorship in Brazil
The popular Portuguese-language ID blog sent us this YouTube vid, explaining the situation.
Veteran journalist leaves major paper before anyone cancels her
She might be pointing a way forward, to fight back against Cancel Culture.