Is it possible for scientists know but not believe?
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...
Tag: Hypocrisy
Richard Armitage and freedom of assembly
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...
On Christians and lions
Sociologist George Yancey discusses his new book So Many Christians, So Few Lions, which highlights the anti-Christian bigotry of America’s elite: Obvious...
On fundamental misunderstandings of science
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...
Trend analysis, cont.
My writing here mostly uses the harm principle/individual rights/tolerance frameworks. Since there’s no hard evidence creationist beliefs cause actual har...
A thought experiment
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...
The good, true, and beautiful
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...
Have you separated any siamese twins recently?
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”...
Creationists and scientific thinking
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...