This Critique of ‘What Passes for Serious Thought’ Comes Up Short on Serious Thought
He’s a writer, he’s a professor of biology, and Nathan Lents thinks my Evolution News essay on the gift of fall colors this week is “silly.” It’s “what passes for serious thought at the Discovery Institute,” and it’s pretty bad, he wants us to know. He stated it through...
Why Do So Many Atheist Book Reviewers Want to Display Such Ignorance?
Too Good to be False received its first negative review on Amazon today. It’s exactly as I’d expected. I knew, based on prior experience, that there would be 1-star reviews coming, and I figured they’d be mostly from people who hadn’t read the book. I was right this time,...
Discovery Institute Summer Seminars: Free (Really Free)
Free, as in really free: Discovery Institute summer seminars for students! You have until Friday to catch the opportunity. Check out their informational flyers: programs onC. S. Lewis and Intelligent Design!...
Darwin’s Doubt: Spoken Word
Darwin’s Doubt: Spoken Word Simply brilliant!...
Darwin’s Doubt: Negative Reviews Undermining Their Own Principles
One would think that self-proclaimed defenders of science would place great stock in the importance of evidence. It seems this should show up in any of their science-related knowledge claims. That does not seem to be the case, however, among those who have written negative reviews of Stephen C....
Strategic Advice For Those Who Oppose Intelligent Design
Unsolicited advice is rarely welcome, especially from someone with different views than one’s one, but I’m going to offer some anyway, for the benefit of those who oppose Intelligent Design. This is not tongue-in-cheek advice, nor is it offered in a spirit of sarcasm. It’s genuine. This is not...
Darwin’s Doubt: Too Hot for Science To Handle?
Book Review Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design by Stephen C. Meyer. Thirty or so years ago I smuggled some new Christian media into a closed Communist country. I remember the thrill vividly: the sense of risk, the satisfaction of completion....
Darwin’s Doubt Available for Pre-Order
They say you can’t tell a book by its cover. Not unless you’re Jerry Coyne, that is. He is quite certain that Stephen Meyer’s forthcoming book Darwin’s Doubt is a sellout on the part of publisher HarperCollins: nothing but God-of-the-Gaps. Nice work to be able to tell that kind...
“Science Says The Universe Has No Purpose” — Lawrence Krauss
Lawrence Krauss’s book A Universe From Nothing was panned about as effectively as any publication I’ve seen, when David Albert published his review in the NY Times Sunday Book Review. That was on March 22. A Google search on “Krauss nothing” returns dozens of other negative reviews. Just to...
