08Jan 2026 by Post

Against Anti-LLM and Anti-AI Absolutism

1 Thessalonians, absolutism, Aristotle, Artificial Intelligence, Bible, Carl Rogers, ChatGPT, Christians, Computational Sciences, dopamine, Doug Smith, Education, Edward Thorndike, Eighteenth Amendment, ELIZA program, Frederick Buechner, geography, history, Jacques Ellul, Jaime Escalante, Joseph Weizenbaum, Judeo-Christian tradition, large language models, Laurent Siklossy, liquor, Marshall McLuhan, math, mathematicians, Neil Postman, Open AI, Phillips Exeter Academy, programmed learning, Prohibition, Rogerian therapists, Sam Altman, science education, software, St. Paul, Substack, Technology, Turing test, William Jennings Bryan, [Un]Intentional
Doug Smith has been a software developer for three decades. He writes extensively about the impact of technology on culture. Source
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12Dec 2025 by Post

Scopes in Reverse: A History of Evolution Education in U.S. Public Schools

American Civil Liberties Union, Antonin Scalia, Ball State University, Clarence Darrow, Council of Europe, Dayton, Discovery Institute, DNA, Epperson v. Arkansas, eric hedin, Eugenie Scott, Evolution, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, fossil record, freedom from religion foundation, Günter Bechly, ID 3.0, Inherit the Wind, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, Jerry Coyne, John Scopes, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Legal Science (jurisprudence), monkey law, public schools, Richard Sternberg, science education, Scientific Freedom, Scopes v. State, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Jay Gould, Supreme Court, Tennessee, Texas, Tree of Life, UC Berkeley, University of Idaho, William Jennings Bryan
Undoubtedly there will be more court cases and curriculum battles in the future over how to teach evolution. Source
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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
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10Jul 2025 by Post

Scopes and History: A Personal Reminiscence

Bible, Clarence Darrow, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, Dayton, Evolution, Field Museum of Natural History, Inherit the Wind, Intelligent Design, Jerome Lawrence, Melvyn Douglas, mental hospitals, mental illness, On the Origin of Species, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Proverbs, Robert E. Lee, science education, Spencer Tracy, Tennessee, William Jennings Bryan, __featured3
In 1956 my father, a devout Darwinian who had failed to persuade me by taking me to the esteemed Field Museum in Chicago, treated me to a theater offering. Source
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07Jul 2025 by Post

Scopes Revisited: An Interview with Historian Jefrey Breshears

American Birth Control League, American Crisis, Apologetics, Bible, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, Clarence Darrow, Culture, Dayton, Discovery Institute, Eugene Debs, Eugenics Education Society, Evolution, Francis Galton, fundamentalist Christianity, H. L. Mencken, history of science, Hollywood, Human Origins and Anthropology, Industrial Workers of the World, Inherit the Wind, Jefrey Breshears, John Scopes, John West, Only Yesterday, Origin of Species, religion, Roaring Twenties, scientific racism, scientism, Scopes trial, Tennessee, The Areopagus, The Descent of Man, The Magician’s Twin, trial lawyers, William Jennings Bryan, Woodrow Wilson, Young Earth Creationists
Promoted as a battle royale between science and religion — evolutionary theory versus biblical creation — in its actual content the trial was underwhelming. Source
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16Aug 2020 by Post

That Hideous Strength — C. S. Lewis’s Fantasia of Consciousness at 75

A.D. Nuttall, Abraham Lincoln, Aldous Huxley, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, Brave New World, Burke, C. P. Snow, Clarence Darrow, Culture & Ethics, Dante, Darwinian theory, David Hume, Deborah Blum, Dickens, Dr. Faustus, E. A. Burtt, Emma Goldman, Evgeny Zamyatin, F. R. Leavis, Frederick Douglass, Friedrich Nietzsche, From Darwin to Hitler, Fyodor Dostoevsky, G. E. M. Anscombe, G. K. Chesterton, Ghost Hunters, Gulag Archipelago, H. L. Mencken, J. D. Bernal, J.B.S. Haldane, Jacques Maritain, Jane Austen, John Dewey, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Leszek Kolakowski, Logical Positivists, Lord Acton, Malcolm Muggeridge, Marquis de Sade, Marxists, Max Stirner, metaphysical fiction, Michael Polanyi, Msgr. R.H. Benson, National Institute of Coordinated Experiments, Petrarch, Pierre Duhem, Richard III, Samuel Johnson, Social Darwinism, space-fiction, St. Francis of Assisi, Stanley L. Jaki, Superman, T.S. Eliot, That Hideous Strength, The Alienation of Reason, The Intellectuals and the Masses, The Man Who Was Thursday, The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science, The Odyssey, Thomas Carlyle, William Jennings Bryan, William Shakespeare, Yuval Harari
The novel is a narrative, fictional version of a philosophical anatomy of the satanic dimension and implication of much modern history from 1914 onwards. Source
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