Some years back a colleague from England emailed me about an article by Paul Gross against intelligent design. He wrote: This is loaded with extreme polemical language almost from the first sentence. I find it so biased that I simply cannot get beyond the first page. That the editor is proud to present this polemical babble is astonishing. If this is the best that the ‘scientific establishment’ can do, then that establishement is culturally decadent. It confirms what I have worried about for a long time: that science today simply does not have the cultural depth, the conceptual and linguistic resources, to conduct civilized scholarly debate about its foundational commitments and assumptions. Thomas Huxley would be deeply embarrassed by this … Continue reading Apology to Baylor Administration and Regents