Today’s New York Times has an extremely interesting article discussing new advances in the field of evolutionary-development, and what it means for our understanding of the processes of evolution.  Assuming that the information presented in this article is correct (a decent assumption, but one should always take mass-media articles on technical subjects with a significant [...]

In an excellent blog entry at NYTimes.com, law professor Stanley Fish notes that three recent books critiquing religion all share a few basic ideas, including the dismissal of faith. These books, like so many others who attack religious belief, set faith as the opposite of reason and then claim that any argument that cannot [...]

There is no such thing as the “literal truth” of the Bible. I say this in response to the numerous reports about the Creation Museum that just opened in a suburb of Cincinnati, which claim that the museum is based on the “literal truth” of the Bible. Now, to be fair, the articles [...]

I want to talk about genetic testing, but first, allow me to play at political philosophy for a second. First a proposition: it is possible for an action to be both immoral and legal. In fact, an action’s legality should have no bearing on its morality. (Note that the same is not [...]

How do you maintain balance on a “consensus” issue?
At the extreme, consider a group which wants to hold a “balanced” debate about whether or not the Holocaust  happened.  Of course, they would immediately be accused of antisemitism, and rightly so.  After all, there is so much evidence that the Holocaust occurred, the consensus is so [...]

Here’s something I don’t understand:
Religious conservatives in the United States are significantly less likely to believe that the globe is over-heating, or that (if it is) men have anything to do with it.
My problem is this: doesn’t the Bible tell us that we have stewardship over the earth? God said that he gave the [...]

The biggest problem with the “evolution debate” can best be described with reference to the following statement made in the New York Times this morning: “Evolution finds that life evolved over billions of years through the processes of mutation and natural selection, without the need for supernatural interventions.” The first part of this statement [...]

Recently a coalition of private religious high schools has filed suit against the University of California system; you can read about it here . The issue at stake is that UC requires certain classes as pre-requisites to admission to the university . Recently, the University ruled that a biology course at [...]

I just finished a book by Lee Strobel entitled The Case for the Creator. The book itself had a number of problems, although I won’t go into all of them here. My main objection, however, was how the author approached the problem of biological origins. It seems that he, and many other advocates of intelligent [...]

Perhaps never in the history of the United States has there been so many people mobilized in such a large, organized and systematic way, to do so little. Most analysts believe that the religious right is the group most responsible for President Bush’s reelection and the Republican Party’s solid victory. And yet they elected these [...]