Larry Moran thinks Jerry Coyne stepped in it. Again. I hope this was just an attempt to (over-)simplify evolution for the readers of The Nation. In that case it might be (just) excusable. But I can’t wait until the creationists get a hold of this review. They’ll be delighted to learn that, according to Jerry… Continue reading Coyne v. Futuyma
Apropos the continuing com-storm Ed Feser has stirred up with his critical posts on “intelligent” design (all of which I agree with), I was struck by this passage from John Hedley Brooke’s Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives, which bears up precisely what Ed’s saying: Brooke devoted a chapter to Paley’s approach to natural theology,… Continue reading Brooke on Paley, Design, and all that…
Quote of the week, from Zippy: “Of course I’m the sort who reflexively chambers a round when I hear the words ‘nothing but’ on general principles.”
I’ve wish-listed this new book on Shakespeare: Despite the failure of early cipher-hunters such as Owen, Elizabeth Wells Gallup and Ignatius Donnelly to find anything meaningful, the idea that Shakespearean texts contain coded messages of authorship remains central. The Sonnets, with their apparently confiding, first-person voice, have proved fertile ground. Oxfordians find anagrams of “Vere”… Continue reading Memo to Joseph Sobran and Tom Bethell
In yet a further irony of history, we find: Hitler also had a penchant for the Saxon novelist Karl May’s Wild West adventure stories, which he had reissued in a special field edition for German soldiers at the front and later recommended to his military commanders as manuals of strategy. (Don’t blame the innocent May,… Continue reading Hitler and Einstein and Westerns….
