Did we mention that Harvard’s Steve (scientism rules!) Pinker was getting it on all sides? Leon Wieseltier now weighs in
Civil liberties crusader defends Richard Dawkins on … civil liberties
Human evolution: You evolved to think holes are poisonous animals?
Researchers: New species do not result from keeping animals apart?
Neuroscience as Star Trek: The Spocks vs. the Kirks?
What humans will supposedly look like in 100,000 years …
Further to, But David, the New York Times will go under before…
But, David, the New York Times will go under before it gets ID right.
Open Mike: Cornell OBI Conference Chapter 12—“Can Purifying Natural Selection Preserve Biological Information?”—Excerpt
Open Mike: Cornell OBI Conference Chapter 12—“Can Purifying Natural Selection Preserve Biological Information?”—Abstract
Hard problem of consciousness not so hard?
When what you falsely think is happening aggravates your disease, you should know your mind is real
Clarence Darrow on rape and chloroforming the unfit: Jerry Coyne’s strange choice of heroes
“Clarence Darrow … is one of my heroes,” Professor Jerry Coyne declares in a recent post over at Why Evolution Is True. I wonder how well Professor Coyne really knows the man whom he idolizes. I’d like to quote from a book titled, Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Clarence Darrow, published in 1922. Darrow apparently believed that rapists weren’t responsible for their deeds because they were governed by their sex instincts: the poor things simply couldn’t help doing what they did. Here’s what he had to say about rape, in a chapter titled, “Sex Crimes”: Most of the inmates of prisons convicted of sex crimes are the poor and wretched and the plainly defective. Nature, in her determination to Read More ›