Month: April 2012
Shermer, a “Skeptic” Who Knows Not What He Knows Not
Michael Shermer has a reason for clinging to scientific triumphalism. Anything less would cede ground to his opponents, the skeptics of his skepticism.
Double Censorship: Granville Sewell Can’t Publish Article, Now Denied the Right to Publish His Rebuttal to Critics
Keep repeating to yourself: “There is no controversy over evolution, there is no controversy over evolution, there is no controversy over evolution…”
A Puzzle about Human Uniqueness
All simians and primates except humans are infected with certain groups of lineage-specific viruses. How did we lose these viruses if we are descended from primate ancestors who had them?
The Real Barrier to Unguided Human Evolution
Even if it takes only 30 or 40 specific trait changes to move from primate to human, and hundred of mutations, the time required would be astronomical.
What Made Chuck Colson Great
He was old and it was noisy in the auditorium, so to be heard I had to get down on one knee in front of him.