Month: July 2016
Why Similarities Do Not Prove the Absence of Design
A future paleontologist would be puzzled by the huge differences between the bicycle and motor vehicle phyla, or between the boat and airplane phyla.
Dolly Clones Pave the Way for Human Cloning
Some human cloning apologists say that “therapeutic cloning” is different from “reproductive cloning.” That’s false.
More on John Searle and Free Will
A reader cites Searle’s books Rationality in Action and Freedom and Neurobiology, contending that he is in fact a defender of free will.
Criminal Prosecution as a Cudgel Against Dissenters
The Planned Parenthood prosecution of David Daleiden and a colleague was a particularly egregious example of this authoritarianism.
In Praise of “Devout Catholics”
Democratic VP pick Tim Kaine and Brown University biologist Ken Miller have this is common.