Nathaniel Comfort – Uncommon Descent

Rob Sheldon defends sociologist Steve Fuller against Nathaniel Comfort

Sheldon: Post-modernists, which Comfort seems to identify with, have a valid point about scientism’s ideological foundation on MN, but rather than rationally correct the error, as Phillip Johnson spent 29 years doing, they treat it as an ethical lapse justifying their own ideological, irrational behavior.

Darwinism Intelligent Design Philosophy Science

Nathaniel Comfort, fresh off an op-ed in Nature, skewers pop Darwinian Steven Pinker

It’s getting so that Darwinians are being treated like ordinary folk who could actually be wrong about some things. What is the world coming to? Where is Queen Umpadeedle when they need her?

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