2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (364+ words) For the 25th anniversary of 9/11 you may be wondering what to read or watch for the occasion. I have a few suggestions. The movie United 93 is a must, released just five years after the terrible day. If you haven’t read the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (704+ words) As fallout continues over NYU Press’s retraction of C. W. Howell’s Designer Science, it’s worth looking more closely at the media outlets and scholars who promoted the book so uncritically. Christianity Today (CT) and historian Edward Larson are prime examples....

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (652+ words) You don’t have to spend much time skimming the voluminous philosophy of mind literature to come across the mind–body interaction problem. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy explains it thus: Originally, the problem of mental causation was that of understanding how…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (307+ words) Novelist Geoffrey Simmons explains how he drew on his background as an ER doctor and disaster preparedness expert to make his story real and plausible. Source Most people know about the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan 1945. But Robert Oppenheimer’s…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (477+ words) Nature — the most prestigious science journal in the world — has editorialized in favor of requiring scientists to register with governments as a condition of participation in the sector. Here’s the context. South Africa has legislation pending that would require scientists…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (327+ words) Yes, let’s make Howell the victim here rather than Michael Behe, the person he defamed. That’s a classic tactic of deflection. Howell casts his error as a “mistake,” now thrown out. That is believable enough, though it’s also evidence of…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (361+ words) The misquote stemmed from a passage in a court ruling [C. W.] Howell “mistakenly” read as a direct quote from Behe and attributed as such, he told us. What Howell did was not “misquote” Behe. He fabricated a quote. An example of…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (869+ words) One positive aspect: Howell rightly observes that some other would-be histories of ID, especially those by written by critics, are “polemical” and “activist.” Source Now I want to put the effort in context. One positive aspect: Howell rightly observes that…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (554+ words) A just published puff-piece interview by The Water Diplomat with Dutch human and nature rights lawyer Jan van de Venis illustrates this tactic. Let’s take a look. Van de Venis is asked to describe how nature rights is being furthered....

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (366+ words) In an article yesterday in a developing series, I began to engage with YouTuber Dave Farina’s low-quality response to me from a few years ago, lamenting Farina’s failure to acknowledge substantive mistakes on his part in his previous video. Here,…...