Jason Rosenhouse, PZ Myers, et al, meet Scott Carson: It doesn’t help that many modern day Christians have abandoned their Neoplatonic roots and think that physical suffering is a Bad Thing that trumps just about everything else, including the fact that our souls are supposedly immortal. If you really have an immortal soul, and if… Continue reading

Excellent post today by Massimo Pigliucci over at Rationally Speaking: So we observe the pathetic attempts to undermine science by practitioners of so-called “science studies,” who usually know very little about the science they criticize; on the other hand, high-caliber scientists of the like of physicist Steven Weinberg and biologist E.O. Wilson dismiss philosophy as… Continue reading

Publisher’s Weekly weighs in on Gene Wolfe’s latest novel. Fantasist extraordinaire Wolfe (The Wizard) dabbles in time travel paradoxes for this charming tale of a monastic novice in postcommunist Cuba. As the years pass, Christopher, the son of an American crime lord, gradually loses touch with his family and decides against taking holy orders. He… Continue reading

I’ve been infected! But in a good way by Steve Matheson’s meme which originated with PZ Myers. The Pharyngula mutating genre meme There are a set of questions below that are all of the form, “The best [subgenre] [medium] in [genre] is…”. Copy the questions, and before answering them, you may modify them in a… Continue reading

These are not your father’s Red Sox. Tom Verducci of Sports Illustrated sums up the year nicely.