Category: Flashback

Interconnectedness, paranormal information transmission, asymmetrical evidence acceptance, aperception of contradiction, and more.

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

Some librarians now post NO SILENCE PLEASE signs as part of their marketing campaigns.

On truth, epistemology, global warming, philosophy of mind, quasi-realism, Hume

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

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

It is not possible to insult or defame someone who has been dead for 1,374 years.

Taken for granted now, but it hasn’t always been.

Deborah Lipstadt discusses how misinformation and false claims are used to question the reality of the Nazis’ attempt to exterminate Europe’s Jews.

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

Many who fear the rise of Islamophobia veer away from critical analysis of Islamic claims and practices, perhaps for fear of what they might find.

Creationism sheds its Dogpatch image and takes a subtler approach.

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

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

Not for fans of the saint

You can be certain and be wrong.

How human relationships are being pushed in new directions by virtual worlds.

Ruse sees Richard Dawkins as the atheist’s Billy Graham

Mental disorders come and go.

‘Did Freud lie?’ is the great question.