Month: March 2014
So, What Really Drives Origin-of-Life Research?
It is depressing indeed if a major concern is, “What will the creationists say?”
So What if We Killed Off the Megafauna?
Among some anti-humanists, a wistfulness for "monsters."
Getting Ready for Russell Crowe as Noah? Read Wesley Smith’s The War on Humans
It’s a commonplace, but still true: Despite its pose as a counterweight to faith, materialism is weirdly like a religion.
Today’s Antidote to Cosmos: Stephen Meyer on the Big Bang
It’s only when the scientific details are elided or distorted, or creatively reimagined, that materialism can still stand up in light of what we now know.
It’s a Saving Grace that Coyne and Other New Atheists Are Such Lousy Students of Human Nature
At Why Evolution Is True Jerry Coyne rebukes the National Center for Science Education for being too chummy with religious people.