All I can say is, I love a philosopher who sticks up for his profession. Here’s Massimo, not only on Harris’s overweaning scientism, but taking on the usual spear carriers who show up in the com boxes.

Happy 30th Anniversary to Tor Books.

Josh Roshenau, with further thoughts on why gadfly Ben Stiller Sam Harris is turning out to be a real crank.

Fowler. I still have the copy my dad gave me when I started high school. Nice to see it’s still a source of inspiration.

Siris: Dembski’s disciples are now turning their guns on the Thomists. Needless to say, he’s not impressed. You don’t need to presuppose CSI, or any sort of design theory, to have final causes in the Thomistic sense; if the point of ID or CSI is to give you final causes in this sense, they are… Continue reading