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Evidence

Is it possible for scientists know but not believe?

Posted on April 28, 2015 by Praj / 2 Comments

Dan Kahan and Adam Laats continue to study people who ‘know-but-don’t-believe’ in evolution. Adam asks his readers: Too often, the implicit go...

Misc

Richard Armitage and freedom of assembly

Posted on February 3, 2015 by Praj / 5 Comments

I just highlighted a creationist microscopist who was (allegedly) fired from California State-Northridge for his religious beliefs. There were a few links in my...

Misc

On Christians and lions

Posted on February 2, 2015 by Praj / 4 Comments

Sociologist George Yancey discusses his new book So Many Christians, So Few Lions, which highlights the anti-Christian bigotry of America’s elite: Obvious...

Evidence

On fundamental misunderstandings of science

Posted on December 9, 2014 by Praj / 3 Comments

To revisit this passage from Laura Helmuth’s critique of James Watson: It is a fundamental misunderstanding of how science works for him to think that his...

Evidence/Values

Trend analysis, cont.

Posted on January 11, 2014 by Praj / 3 Comments

My writing here mostly uses the harm principle/individual rights/tolerance frameworks. Since there’s no hard evidence creationist beliefs cause actual har...

Evidence/Values

A thought experiment

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Praj / 1 Comment

The importance of separating facts from ideology was perhaps the most important lesson from my fellowship in DC. It stems from the basic belief that there is an...

Values

The good, true, and beautiful

Posted on November 1, 2013 by Praj / 0 Comment

I quite often feel that my greatest task as a father is to raise children who love what is good, true, and beautiful, and who are therefore aliens in this popul...

Evidence

Have you separated any siamese twins recently?

Posted on October 9, 2013 by Praj / 0 Comment

Pediatric neurosurgeon and a creationist Ben Carson is a young-Earth creationist. He is not some wishy-washy “evolution is real but God directed it”...

Evidence

Creationists and scientific thinking

Posted on October 9, 2013 by Praj / 0 Comment

Come on ref! It’s not a foul if no one got hurt. Forbes’ Alex Knapp explained why people who reject evolution cannot reason scientifically: if [poli...

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