It was nice to see my book back on the shelves at Border’s this week. With the take-over of Avalon Publishing by Perseus Books, and the shut down of both Thunder’s Mouth (under which imprint my book was published) and Carroll & Graf, the warehouses were merged and a new distributor took over for both… Continue reading

Can you win the Nobel Prize for science…and still be a moron? Sadly, yes.

Steve Matheson has a great post today on How to Evolve a New Protein in (about) 8 easy steps, worth quoting in detail: How, exactly, does a protein acquire a new function during evolution? This is one of those “big questions” in evolutionary biology. Broad concepts such as gene duplication are quite helpful in formulating… Continue reading

Sam Harris gets a clue that monomaniacal monotony is not the best way to win converts. Needless to say, the older geezers of ‘New’ Atheism…don’t.

If you haven’t come across Mike Liccione (and I hadn’t until Scott Carson tipped me off), you don’t know what you’re missing: Classical theism is committed to the claim that God’s omnipotence and perfection are compatible with the evil in his world; but the same tradition precludes saying precisely how evil squares with God’s omnipotence… Continue reading