book review · books · Darwin · evolution · intelligent design

Selling ‘Doubt’

My review of Stephen C. Meyer’s ‘Darwin’s Doubt’ is up at National Review. It will appear in the Sept. 2nd print edition. Our contemporary debates about evolution are basically an extension of the argument Christians have been having with one another since the Middle Ages, about how much autonomy God granted to the natural world.… Continue reading Selling ‘Doubt’

cosmology · intelligent design

The Problem with Fine Tuning…

James Chastek has a good post on why Cosmic ‘Fine Tuning’ arguments are unsatisfactory: Fine tuning arguments play on one of the great blind-spots of modern thinkers- the muddling of logical and real possibility. The arguments can only swiftly reach a conclusion because we think we can go from imagining things happening in a different… Continue reading The Problem with Fine Tuning…