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More Than 500 Arguments for the Existence of God *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

TELEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT

(1) Check out that tree. Isn’t it pretty?
(2) Therefore, God exists.… Read the rest



Paul Kurtz on Belief *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

Why do people believe or disbelieve?… Read the rest



Webster Reviews Fisher and Greenberg *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

‘the findings were nicely congruent with the hypothesis’ – yes, they always are, that’s the problem.… Read the rest



Kevin McDonald on Crews on Freud *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

‘psychoanalysis, unlike a scientific theory but very much like certain religious or political movements, has essentially been immune from attacks leveled at it either from inside or outside the movement.’… Read the rest



Frederick Crews on Freud *

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‘the claims of psychoanalytic theory are not interpretations but determinate propositions about how the mind regularly works’… Read the rest



A look at Kent Hovind’s dissertation. *

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In fact Patriot University seems to have no standards.… Read the rest



Dawkins on Maynard Smith *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

‘John does know more mathematics, more physics and more engineering than the average biologist. But he also knows more biology than the average biologist.’… Read the rest



Urvashi Butalia on ‘honour’ killing. *

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Women’s groups demand that murderers be treated according to laws of the land and not be allowed to find shelter behind the curtain of ‘culture’. … Read the rest



Melvin Konner takes on the opponents of sociobiology. *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

Biologists who had done no primary research in human sciences nevertheless issued anathemas on it.… Read the rest



A Designer Universe? *

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What a coincidence that we’re here and not on that nasty Pluto.… Read the rest



Mary Lefkowitz on Distortions of History *

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He has his view and you have yours and they have theirs. So it goes.… Read the rest



Paul Gross on the Politicization of Science Education *

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Attempts to reshape science classes delegitimize science as an especially trustworthy form of knowledge and promote “other ways of knowing” instead. … Read the rest



Therapeutic Touch *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

The Skeptical Dictionary looks at energy medicine, the flow of chi or prana, auras, chakras…… Read the rest



Richard Dawkins considers Fashionable Nonsense *

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It’s so uncool to think there is a real world.… Read the rest



Fifteen Answers to Creationist Nonsense *

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Some antievolutionists admit that they intend for intelligent-design theory to serve as a “wedge” for reopening science classrooms to discussions of God. … Read the rest



Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? *

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When cultures are organized around controlling and using women, is blanket respect for Other cultures such a good idea?… Read the rest



Historic Conference in Chicago March 2000 *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

Conference brought Armenian
and Turkish scholars together for the first time to discuss the 1915 genocide.… Read the rest



‘Independent’ Peer Review *

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The Bush administration wants scientists it can trust.… Read the rest



Dawkins on Darwin’s Genetics *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

‘Sexual selection really is a good candidate for explaining a great deal about the unique evolution of our species.’… Read the rest



Byatt Reviews Browne’s Darwin Biography *

Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by

‘There has been a tendency among Marxist, or marxisant, critics of Darwin, and social Darwinism, to criticise, or ridicule, the theory as a simple product of the society in which it was developed.’… Read the rest