As biochemist Michael Behe explains in the Introduction to his new book, out today — A Mousetrap for Darwin: Michael J. Behe Answers His Critics — the public is being prepared very slowly for the demise of Darwinian evolutionary theory.
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For those who are always lecturing us about “Follow the science” and “Believe the scientists,” this episode should be an eye opener.
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The truth is that placing a man in the Monkey House was intended as an education for the public in Darwinian evolution.
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“White Fragility” is the phrase of the moment. It refers to an unwillingness on the part of white people to admit “complicity” with racism.
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Alexander H. Stephens was Vice President of the Confederacy. In 1861 he delivered an oration justifying slavery and rebellion on scientific grounds.
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Certain threads in the events of recent months suggest the hand of a skilled novelist.
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Ota Benga’s protest — “I am a man! I am a man!” — summarizes the very best message of the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Amidst a controversial national lockdown, economic ruin, and mounting intelligence evidence pointing to an origin in a Chinese lab, the coronavirus has reminded us of a number of things.
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Yesterday, as a possible weapon against COVID-19, the Food and Drug Administration rushed out approval for an anti-malarial treatment. What does malaria, a tropical disease caused by a parasite, have to do with the viral infection rampaging across the globe?
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This is important. Yale University computer scientist David Gelernter is a polymath, a brilliant writer, artist, and thinker. Famed both for his specific scientific expertise, and for his cultural, political, and historical reflections, he’s also now a confessed Darwin skeptic. More than a … » Go
You would have to be willfully blind, or just stay far away from our major city centers, to miss some of the more obvious signs of the spiritual crisis.
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I walked out onto the sidewalk, enjoying the salty mist and the majestic Olympic Mountains. Then I looked down.
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The regime of methodological naturalism is affirmative action for scientific ideas.
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Dismantling the discontinuity of humans with nature is the goal of a cheery, innocent-sounding Disney song.
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Intelligent design was the default scientific understanding of nature and the cosmos — until the hostile takeover by Darwinian materialism.
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Above all, major props to Lee Cronin for showing up at all. That took courage. He earns my admiration.
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“We may regretfully add Wallace to the Party’s list of obfuscating revisions. The good news is that the truth is still available for those who want to know.”
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One reason, he says, is the “relentless” growth of the ID movement, in academia and around the world. This conversation is itself evidence on the latter point.
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What was unclear was whether his rage against intelligent design reflected just an isolated problem in his thinking, or whether it’s something more system-wide.
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It turns out there are five separate qualities to life and its information that make this comforting rationalization impossible to uphold.
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Ahead of the Friday theatrical release, our colleague Andrew McDiarmid talked with Dr. Jeffrey Long, a cancer doctor who appears in the film.
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Science needs its critics as much as any field of human endeavor does. Maybe even more so today.
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