Venture capitalist Tom Alberg reviews George Gilder’s Knowledge and Powertoday for Geekwire.com, managing to sound objective while still pushing the Gilder analysis forward. Well he should, as they are old friends of decades’ standing. Next Monday, September 23, Alberg, a founder of the Madrona Group, will interview Gilder before an audience at Town Hall in Seattle. You can register online for the event here. (Town Hall is at 1119 Eighth Ave., downtown Seattle. Sponsored by Discovery Institute, Madrona Venture Group and Washington Policy Center, admission to the event is $10, which includes reception at 6 p.m. and program at 7:00. Book signing to …
Perhaps the Freedom From Religion Foundation should demand that the old man's seated statue be removed from Harvard Yard and the name of the college changed to Pinker.
Real Clear Science is a disappointing source of scientific news and opinion, largely because it seems to be edited with the idea that there is no mere "opinion" to it.
For those who deplore materialism in science, it is useful to consider that the lack of a sense of the spiritual in people's lives often finds its replacement in the pursuit of status and things.
Imagine someone called "The Democracy Guy" or "The Medicine Guy" who rendered judgments on a subject he hadn't fairly studied and did not accurately represent.
The standard Darwinian tactic is to ignore plausible counterarguments, and when that no longer suffices, to smear authors as creationists who don't understand science.
A writer in the em>Fort Wayne (IN) News-Sentinel says the Freedom from Religion Foundation has provoked an "inquisition" into the teaching of a professor of physics.
Misperceiving patterns and lessons from random information is a form of psychiatric disease called "apophenia," a delusional condition the sufferer confuses with reality.
The Pontifical Academy of Sciences is run by staff that is friendly to scientific materialists and hostile to many orthodox believers who are scientists.