The desire to “question common sense” is merely the self-congratulation of someone whose “sense” is different, but no less “common.”… Read the rest

Scientific American provides useful tool… Read the rest

OU/Radio 4 series on which bits of history we remember and which we don’t… Read the rest

Be as obscurantist as you can get away with, decently or indecently.… Read the rest

All those mind-bendingly transgressive thinkers now formed a sort of tradition.… Read the rest

Ruse sees Richard Dawkins as the atheist’s Billy Graham… Read the rest

Attempts to reconcile science and religion usually fail because religions make claims about the real world that don’t stand up to scientific scrutiny.… Read the rest

Gilligan’s teaching is in many ways reactionary, which also helps to account for its extraordinary success… Read the rest

Ants, pheromones, genes, biodiversity, ecological footprints, consilience.… Read the rest

Rorty has a gift for ducking and weaving and laying smoke… Read the rest

His obscurity is a depressing lesson in contemporary cultural memory.… Read the rest

Einstein’s theory of relativity did not spawn artistic modernism and moral relativism, Time magazine to the contrary notwithstanding.… Read the rest

‘Basically, Godel’s theorems prove the Doctrine of Original Sin, the need for the sacrament of penance, and that there is a future eternity.’… Read the rest

Both are obsessed with realism and the pursuit of objective knowledge… Read the rest

The anti-secularist reaction has been bad for women and children.… Read the rest

Or rather, a gene for something labeled ‘spirituality.’… Read the rest

The ASA said Peniel Pentecostal Church had to offer proof at least comparable with that required of makers of washing powder… Read the rest

Graham Larkin answers questions from New York Sun… Read the rest

Rebuttals and references from the scientific community to any and all of the various creationist claims.… Read the rest

Anti-science is a revolt wherein second-rate scholarship is parlayed into tenured professorships and book contracts.… Read the rest