19Oct 2025 by Post

Charles Murray and Others Rediscovering God: No Accident of Timing

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, catechism, Charles Murray, ChatGPT, Christianity, Coming Apart, consciousness, cosmology, Faith & Science, faith and science, gospels, intellectuals, J.D. Vance, Joel Kotkin, Jordan Peterson, Justin Brierley, Losing Ground, media, New Atheism, Politics, Richard Dawkins, Richard Herrnstein, Taking Religion Seriously, The Bell Curve, UnHerd, universe
Not what you heard? Well, if you heard something else from traditional media, maybe those media aren’t so reliable any more. Source
Read More
22Sep 2025 by Post

In Science, the Rising Power of Private Truth

Carole Hooven, Clarence Darrow, Colin Wright, common descent, Darwinists, Edward Larson, Evidence, Evolution, evolutionary biology, folk beliefs, fundamentalism, gravity, Human Origins, Jerry Coyne, logic, New York Times, Parting Shot, private truth, public truth, reason, Richard Dawkins, scientific reasoning, Scopes Monkey Trial, Summer for the Gods, Tennessee, The Story of Testosterone, University of Chicago, William Jennings Bryan
Many people experience a vast liberation when they are freed from the constraints of logic, reason, and evidence. Source
Read More
20Sep 2025 by Post

Can Evolution Explain Altruism or Heroism?

altruism, burning cars, Casey Luskin, Culture, Education, Evolution, evolutionary mechanism, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary utility, genes, group selection, heroism, human behavior, kin selection, kindness, Marvel Universe, Podcast, reciprocal altruism, Richard Dawkins, selfish genes, strangers, teamwork
Casey Luskin and I share separate recent examples of people who have run towards burning cars to save complete strangers. Source
Read More
07Aug 2025 by Post

Jay Richards on an Icon of Intelligent Design and 20 Years of a Bifurcating Culture

Allan CP, Aristotle, astronomy, atheists, bifurcation, Children, Christian civilization, Christians, civilization, Emma Camp, Evangelicals, Faith & Science, gender ideology, Guillermo Gonzalez, Intelligent Design, materialists, New Atheism, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Reason (magazine), Richard Dawkins, Roman Catholicism, Socrates, surgical sexual mutilation, The Privileged Planet, The Science Dilemma, theism, theists, tradcath, wokeness
If wokeness leads to promoting surgical sexual mutilation of children, maybe we need to rethink the whole thing. Source
Read More
28Jul 2025 by Post

Dilley: How Evolutionary Atheists Employ Homemade Theology

Allan CP, atheists, biology textbooks, Charles Darwin, Evolution, evolutionists, Faith & Science, faith and science, Jerry Coyne, Reasoning, religious tradition, Richard Dawkins, science, scientific reasoning, Stephen Dilley, textbooks, The Science Dilemma, theology
That is no way to reason about science. Yet many biology textbooks, in explaining evolution, do the same thing, perpetuating an error that goes back to Darwin. Source
Read More
02May 2025 by Post

The Emergence of Freedom: A New Book by James Barham

Aeneid, An Inventive Universe, Aristotle, Darwinism, Evolution, Gerald H. Pollack, Harvard University, human evolution, human spirit, Inkwell Press, Intelligent Design, James Barham, John McDowell, Kenneth G. Denbigh, Latin, Mind and Cosmos, Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, natural selection, naturalism, neo-Thomists, Nicolaus Copernicus, philosophy of nature, Philosophy of Science, Richard Dawkins, scientism, teleology, Thomas Browne, Thomas Nagel, University of Texas
Barham’s approach to teleology in nature is, if anything, Aristotelian. Indeed, Aristotle is the most cited person in the index of his book. Source
Read More
21Mar 2025 by Post

Origin of Life: A “Simple” Worm’s Challenge

Animal Algorithms, atheists, behaviors, brain, C. elegans, chaos, directed evolution, Eric Cassell, human brain, intelligence, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Journal of Neurochemistry, lab animals, Life Sciences, natural selection, order, origin of life, random mutation, Richard Dawkins, simplicity, specified complexity, touch response
Were there ever life forms that were so simple that they could merely self-assemble, as our official doctrine of the origin of life proposes? Source
Read More
21Feb 2025 by Post

Dawkins and Picard Win This Year’s Trotter Prize

affective computing, American Humanist Association, C.S. Lewis, Charlie Townes, clash, Culture & Ethics, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, debates, Denis Noble, Denyse O'Leary, Faith & Science, Francis Collins, Francis Crick, Ide P. Trotter Sr., Intelligent Design, James Shapiro, Mendelian genetics, Micah Green, Michael Egnor, Miracles (book), MIT, Old Testament, qualia, Richard Dawkins, Roger Penrose, Rosalind Picard, Rudder Theatre, Santa Fe, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Pinker, Steven Weinberg, Stuart Kauffman, Texas A&M University, The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Blind Watchmaker, The End of Christianity, The Third Way of Evolution, Trotter Prize, Tufts University, violence, Zeitgeist
A reflection on the 2025 Trotter Prize Lecture delivered by Oxford's Richard Dawkins and MIT's Rosalind Picard. Source
Read More
14Feb 2025 by Post

How Evolutionists Overlook Signatures of Design — The Case of Koalas

botany, Center for Science and Culture, convergence, Darwinian theory, Darwinians, David Klinghoffer, earth, embryology, Evolution, Evolution News, fingerprints, genetics, Günter Bechly, humans, Intelligent Design, Jay Mathers Savage, John West, koalas, mountain ranges, non-primates, philosophy, Richard Dawkins, state universities, sun, zoology
I note and discuss an astounding case of convergence between humans and koalas, “the only non-primates with fingerprints.” Source
Read More