21Jul 2021 by Post

Meet the New New Atheists, Not Like the Old New Atheists

agnostics, Apologetics, atheists, Ben Shapiro, Brian Keating, Charles Murray, Christianity, Christopher Hitchens, civilization, Convivium, Darwinian theory, Dennis Prager, Douglas Murray, Esther O'Reilly, Faith & Science, God Is Not Great, James Croft, Jews, John West, Jonathon Van Maren, Jordan Peterson, Judaism, Justin Brierley, Michael Medved, Michael Shermer, New Atheists, New New Atheists, Niall Ferguson, Orthodox Jews, Return of the God Hypothesis, Roger Scruton, Stephen Meyer, Tom Holland, Unbelievable?, william lane craig
These atheists are finding the “Darwinian tower” less to their liking, and are laying down their bow and arrow. Source
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08Jul 2021 by Post

On Evolution and Racism, Scientific American Goes to War Against the Truth

African Americans, Africans, Alfred Russel Wallace, Allison Hopper, Amsterdam, Bible, border wall, Cain, Charles Darwin, Chautauqua, Darwinian theory, death penalty, Descent of Man, Electoral College, eugenics, Evolution, fake news, filibuster, Final Solution, Fox News, Francis Galton, genocide, human dignity, Human Zoos, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Intelligent Design, John West, Jon Levine, New York Post, Politics, qualified immunity, Scientific American, standardized testing, student loan debt, systemic racism, white supremacy
Given evolution’s racist baggage, you might think the theory’s proponents would be somewhat abashed to accuse the critics of Darwin of “white supremacy.” Source
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18Mar 2021 by Post

A Flea Circus of Small Animal Acrobats

animals, BBC, Cosmos (series), crustaceans, Current Biology, Darwinian theory, dragonflies, flea circus, Harikumar Suwa, Imperial College London, Intelligent Design, Italy, North Carolina, roundworms, Sandeep Eswarappa, spiders, tardigrades, The Conversation, The Scientist, University of Trento, UV light, water bears
Small animals amuse and amaze scientists who take a close look at them in action. Sometimes it requires a high-speed camera to analyze the trick. Source
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05Mar 2021 by Post

Michael Ruse on Purpose: The Flies in the Ointment

abstract thought, art, C.S. Lewis, Daniel Everett, Darwin Industry, Darwinian theory, Darwinism as religion, Evolution, Faith & Science, Frederic Harrison, hedgehog, human exceptionalism, John Henry Bridges, mathematics, Michael Ruse, music, Noam Chomsky, On Purpose, Pirahã people, Richard Dawkins, scientific reductionism, South America, The Selfish Gene, Thomas Henry Huxley, Whiggishness
Ruse’s chronological snobbery might be forgiven if the claims he makes for Darwinism can be unequivocally substantiated. Source
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03Feb 2021 by Post

More Dispatches from the Science/Religion Classroom

consciousness, cosmology, Darwinian theory, Darwinians, Evolution, Faith & Science, fine-tuning, Francis Collins, geneticists, mathematics, methodological naturalism, natural selection, origin of life, particle physics, Philip Davies, population genetics, Richard Goldschmidt, Richard Lewontin, The Goldilocks Enigma, The Language of God, universe
Students are adept at spotting the incongruities, double standards, and tendentious arguments that often accompany methodological naturalism. Source
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11Jan 2021 by Post

How to Destroy Love with Darwinism

Alice in Wonderland, alleles, altruism, antelopes, ants, behavior, behaviorism, biology, bioRxiv, bonobos, cooperation, Darwinian theory, Evolution, game theory, genetic determinism, Green Beard hypothesis, Kaleda K. Denton, kin selection, Lausanne University, leaping, lions, Love, pandemic, Red Queen hypothesis, slime molds, watchman crow
When Darwin proposed a new view of biology based on chance, he cheapened everything, including our most precious human values. Source
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05Jan 2021 by Post

Can Natural Reward Theory Save Natural Selection?

alleles, animals, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, cotton, Darwinian theory, ecosystems, Evolution, foresight, fossil record, John Rust, Macroevolution, materialism, molecular machines, Monopoly, natural selection, Owen M. Gilbert, oxygen, pseudoscience, Rethinking Ecology, selection pressure, teleology, The Origin of Species, Thomas Malthus, University of Texas
An evolutionist dismantles natural selection, then tries to rescue it with his own theory. It won’t work. Source
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