1+ week, 2+ day ago   (356+ words) We hope you are enjoying your Labor Day weekend. While you are carefully putting away all your white clothing until next summer, take a moment to consider the impact of labor on the development of evolutionary theory. Watch the video…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (652+ words) You don’t have to spend much time skimming the voluminous philosophy of mind literature to come across the mind–body interaction problem. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy explains it thus: Originally, the problem of mental causation was that of understanding how…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (477+ words) Nature — the most prestigious science journal in the world — has editorialized in favor of requiring scientists to register with governments as a condition of participation in the sector. Here’s the context. South Africa has legislation pending that would require scientists…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (346+ words) To put the answer simply, no it’s not isolated at all, including in the context of very recent news stories. I commented on that at Townhall. From, “This American Academic Fabrication Story Has Nothing to Do With Race“: The tragic…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1035+ words) But no. According to Berkowitz, “Biological sex is as nuanced as gender.” He’s written a whole book about it. The thesis is in the title: The Binary Delusion: How Biology Defies the Myth of Two Sexes. As he explains in…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (327+ words) Yes, let’s make Howell the victim here rather than Michael Behe, the person he defamed. That’s a classic tactic of deflection. Howell casts his error as a “mistake,” now thrown out. That is believable enough, though it’s also evidence of…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (869+ words) One positive aspect: Howell rightly observes that some other would-be histories of ID, especially those by written by critics, are “polemical” and “activist.” Source Now I want to put the effort in context. One positive aspect: Howell rightly observes that…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (179+ words) As Casey Luskin wrote here earlier today, C. W. Howell’s book Designer Science tries to tie intelligent design to larger trends of “extreme” science skepticism that have bothered many in the science community. Howell seeks to link those to the political right:…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (539+ words) “We are pulling the current edition from the market and destroying all existing inventory,” NYU Press Senior Editor Jennifer Hammer communicated to Casey Luskin of Discovery Institute on August 3. Hammer went on to say that new print and electronic editions…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (284+ words) We have been looking at Christoph Adami’s book, The Evolution of Biological Information. We are presently going through Chapter 4, “Experiments in Evolution.”We come now to a section that covers the history of artificial life. Artificial life, or ALife, refers…...