Is the new bill already effecting the economy? Democrats wary of voting for the health care bill may have been soothed by the Congressional Budget Office’s report that it would reduce federal deficits over the next 10 years. But bond buyers know that the Democrats gamed the CBO system to get a good score. The… Continue reading
Month: March 2010
“The New York Times obtained the documents, which the church fought to keep secret, from…” It appears we are once again going to be seeing these words in the newspapers. A lot.
M. John Harrison on Ian McEwan’s latest novel, Solar: For some readers it will return to McEwan a little of the credibility he seemed to be working so hard to lose with novels such as Saturday and On Chesil Beach; others may require more of him. I didn’t realize British literati think McEwan was jettisoning… Continue reading
Tom Bethell and the Romance of Scientific HeresyBack in November I linked to Stephen Barr’s post spanking American Spectator columnist Tom Bethell for his long held, ideological grudge against Einstein –and further, his irresponsibly uncritical championing of a pet theory devised by his friend and fellow traveler, the late Petr Beckmann–which Bethell has now summarized… Continue reading
Darwin and Teleology
Brandon Watson has an excellent post on Darwin and teleology: The most important is that the word ‘teleology’ is ambiguous, and was already ambiguous in Darwin’s time. By ‘teleology’ you can mean Paleyan teleology, in which organisms exhibit a design plan that is explained by the imposition of a designer in a special creation at… Continue reading Darwin and Teleology