Ken Perrott • Jan 25, 2015 •
This is a more recent version of Richard Dawkins reading some of his “fan mail.” Don’t remember much of the first batch he read – but get the impression the language skills of fundamentalists has become even poorer in the intervening period. Warning – explicit language. via Love Letters to Richard Dawkins – YouTube. Similar articles … Read More
Ken Perrott • Mar 20, 2013 •
Richard Dawkins’ latest book is due out next September. The title – Childhood, Boyhood, Truth: From an African Youth to The Selfish Gene It’s yet a new genre for Dawkins – autobiography. Mind you he has reached the age where … Continue reading → … Read More
Grant Jacobs • Mar 17, 2013 •
A weekend peek at an... ‘unconventional’ research paper. Investigate Daily, a part of local conspiracy theory magazine Investigate edited by creationist Ian Wishart, earlier in the week released Scientists dumbstruck: signs of intelligent design in DNA code. Investigate Daily concludes, “the study is groundbreaking in its implications.” Sounds pretty definitive, right? … Read More
Ken Perrott • Feb 14, 2013 •
Victor Stenger has a short, but important, blog post in the Huffington Post. Appropriately (because it’s about evolutionary science) dated February 12 – Darwin Day, 204th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth. Stenger’s article, No Belief Gap, considers Gallup Poll data … Continue reading → … Read More
Ken Perrott • Jan 17, 2013 •
I know someone is going to accuse me of “scientism” for this. But I guess that goes with the science blogger’s job – and it’s a diversion anyway. It will hardly be the first time. What I want to dispute … Continue reading → … Read More
Ken Perrott • Dec 20, 2012 •
Occasionally I watch videos, or listen to podcasts, distributed by the Intelligent design crowd at the Discovery Institute. So, I wasted a few minutes on this video below where one of their tame scientists, Ann Gauger, spoke “authoritatively” on population … Continue reading → … Read More
Ken Perrott • Nov 27, 2012 •
Credit: The Teaching Company John S. Wilkins, at the Evolving Thoughts blog, has a nice short article, Why is Darwin’s theory so controversial?, on the so-called “controversies” around Darwin’s theories. I think he nails it. He shows that the usual tired … Continue reading → … Read More
Ken Perrott • Oct 14, 2012 •
How reliable do you think your cognitive facilities are? Your eyes, ears, etc? Your brain, memory and mental processes? According to philosopher of religion Alvin Plantinga, not very good. He asserts any belief you form using these facilities is as … Continue reading → … Read More
Ken Perrott • Oct 08, 2012 •
I have been debating Plantinga’s claims of guided evolution with a couple of religious apologists lately. His ideas really are just another attempt to sneak his god, his “magic man,” into evolutionary science. Even to assert guidance is inherent in … Continue reading → … Read More
Ken Perrott • Sep 26, 2012 •
Maarten Boudry is a philosopher I will certainly read more of. His review of Alvin Plantinga‘s book, Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism, get’s right to the point – and clearly. Boudry responds to Plantinga’s argument that … Continue reading → … Read More