Abby Hafer, The Not-So-Intelligent Designer: Why Evolution Explains the Human Body and Intelligent Design Does Not. (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2015). If you love intelligent design, you’ll (probably) hate this book. If you hate intelligent design, you’ll (probably) love this book. If you’re somewhere in-between in your assessment of intelligent design, you’ll probably find yourself somewhere […]
Discovery Institute
Science and religion: Are they really in conflict? Yeah, sometimes.
I mentioned in my last post that I participated in a panel discussion following a simulcast of the Discovery Institute sponsored event “Science and Faith: Are They Really in Conflict?“. While I enjoyed the simulcast (John Lennox and Stephen Meyer are both bright, engaging speakers), I did have some quibbles. I noted one of them […]
Should we “teach the controversy”?
In “Monkeying around with common sense” I offered a critique of Tennessee’s new bill for teaching scientific controversies in school. My critique consisted of pointing out that this kind of method would be frowned upon in other knowledge discourses like history and English. So it seems inappropriate for this bill to single out science as […]
The Wedge Strategy of Fiat USA and other nefarious intelligent designs
First, my apologies. I’ve been very slow in responding to comments this week (and am still catching up). This is due to a perfect storm of factors including publishing deadlines and the start of a new semester. In this post I want to respond to two different issues, both relating to ID. The first one […]
