Steve Matheson, with installment two of three, on the problem with Michael Behe: But Behe’s reasoning is stunningly dumb. It goes like this. In the fifty years since antimalarial drugs were brought to bear on P. falciparum, more than 1020 (that’s 10 to the 20th power, if the superscript isn’t working) of the parasites have… Continue reading

Hanson on Russia’s attack: The Russians have sized up the moral bankruptcy of the Western Left. They know that half-a-million Europeans would turn out to damn their patron the United States for removing a dictator and fostering democracy, but not more than a half-dozen would do the same to criticize their long-time enemy from bombing… Continue reading

Joshua Green has an in-depth post-mortem of Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

Steve Matheson has a great post, pretty much summing up why his fellow biologists (religious or otherwise) don’t take Michael Behe seriously: Behe has excused himself from the company of those who seriously study evolutionary science, and has done this by approaching the complex and fascinating analysis of evolutionary genetics with a malignant combination of… Continue reading

Speaking of the Church and Science, Ian Laurenzi, professor of chemical engineering at Lehigh, read my piece; Ian takes a decidedly more grim view about the prospects for science education in the Church than I do. He sent me this via email: I think you hit some good points, but there is a much bigger… Continue reading