Month: November 2013
Unintended Consequences: How Hostile Responses to Darwin’s Doubt Turned a Thoughtful Reader Against Darwinian Evolution
A bumper sticker I’ve seen around in Seattle protests the War on Terror, warning that “We’re making enemies faster than we can kill them…”
Sham Skepticism: A Reality Check for Donald Prothero
Anti-ID geologist Donald Prothero is apparently no longer an active professor at Occidental College. But he’s certainly making good use of his newly found free time.
"CAPTCHA" Breakthrough by AI Illustrates Biomimetic Design
An important security mechanism for Internet authentication has been busted, but it didn’t happen by unguided material processes.
C.S. Lewis and the Argument from Reason
If naturalism is true, then we ought not to trust our capacity for reason, and so, ought not to trust arguments in favor of naturalism.
How Do We Grapple with the Idea that ET Might Not Be Out There?
Every month, we hear of a planet or moon capable of supporting hype.