Category: Culture
Cambridge University Press’s New Book on Social Darwinism: Darwin and Herbert Spencer
The authors admit that Darwin was a racist who promoted racial struggle. They are likely to infuriate quite a few people of varying persuasions.
Meyer: Quantum Cosmology, the Multiverse, and Stephen Hawking
Newton, Kepler, and other founders of modern science were inspired to search out and find the rational order hidden in nature because they were theists.
Why the Universe Itself Can’t Be the Most Fundamental Thing
Imagine a chain hanging from the sky supporting a weight suspended in the air. Each link in the chain is a cause for the continued suspension of the links.
Scientists Make Human-Monkey Hybrid Embryos
They said they wouldn’t do it, but of course they did. Scientists working in China — where else? — have constructed embryos that are part human and part monkey.
Douglas Axe: Stupid Design? Or Elegant Invention?
You can watch Axe taking on arguments for “stupid design,” as offered by well known atheists like Neil deGrasse Tyson or lesser lights such as Nathan Lents.