Author: Ophelia Benson

Alister McGrath says Richard Dawkins is a crude religious propagandist

If there are two cultures involved in the Sokal affair they are shoddy scholarship on the one side and an attempt at rational thought on the other.

‘You have no excuse to carry a woman who is neither your wife nor your mother on a motorcycle.’

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Creationists sense they’re playing a losing game.

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

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

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

In 1968, women and men occupied the barricades.

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

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

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.

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

A classic on intergroup conflict and cooperation