Month: April 2010

‘It’s a bug that has taken hold of me without asking my permission.’

Enlightenment, we should equally remember, means replacing half-baked notions and myths with facts.

Derogation of the out-group was expressed in word and deed.

A classic on intergroup conflict and cooperation

Communities of interest are not born; they are made, and construct themselves, according to prevalent ideologies.

Her life was bound by prohibitions: no swimming, no sports, no playing outdoors and no German friends because they were infidels. She ran away the day her father threatened her with an ax.

Secularists, women’s rights campaigners, minorities not pleased.

New Islamic family law in Malaysia undermines women’s rights.

In 1968, women and men occupied the barricades.

Rehman has been thrashed by her father, threatened at gunpoint by her uncle and forced to marry a complete stranger

Collection of articles on on the ways Hindutva propagandists distort ancient Indian history.

K N Panikkar on the politics of rewriting history in India.

Creationists sense they’re playing a losing game.

‘I found a dimpled spider, fat and white…’

How ID creationism is wedging its way into the cultural and academic mainstream.

‘Among the more irritating consequences of our flagrantly religious society is the special dispensation that mainstream religions receive.’

Vardy schools accord equal importance to both creationism and theories of evolution.

Reviews and Criticisms of Michael Behe’s book: Darwin’s Black Box:
The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution

Irreducible complexity is a term invented by Behe. It is a myth: there is no irreducible complexity in living organisms.

Irreducible complexity is a term invented by Behe. It is a myth: there is no irreducible complexity in living organisms.