Steven Pinker honorary degree Type post Author Richard Weikart Date February 26, 2018 CategoriesBioethicsBiologyEvolutionPsychology Tagged , __k-review, anthropology, Arthur Schopenhauer, assumptions, biases, Charles Darwin, Christa Schroeder, cranial capacity, Darwinism, Europeans, evolution, human origins, ideology, Konrad Lorenz, Nobel Prize, prejudices, pseudoscience, racial inequality, Racism, religion, scientific racism, scientists, Steven Pinker, The Descent of Man On the History of Darwinism, Scientific Racism, and Hitler, Is Steven Pinker Objective? Richard Weikart February 26, 2018 Bioethics, Biology, Evolution, Psychology 5 Pinker is right that we should formulate our ideas based on evidence, not bias and preconceptions. Read More ›
Steven-Pinker Type post Author Richard Weikart Date February 24, 2018 CategoriesNeuroscience & MindPsychology Tagged , __k-review, “consensus science”, altruism, assumptions, bias, Chronicle of Higher Education, David Hume, Harvard University, Lord Kelvin, objectivity, postmodernism, replication crisis, science, Steven Pinker, subjectivity, thermodynamics Is Science Objective? Steven Pinker’s Counterattack Against the “War on Science” Richard Weikart February 24, 2018 Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology 5 Unfortunately, Pinker’s overweening faith in science as a reliable path to the truth has its own problems. Read More ›
Type post Author Ann Gauger Date May 24, 2016 CategoriesEvolutionGeneticsHuman Origins and Anthropology Tagged , __tedited, assumptions, egg laying, exaptation, functional sequences, functionality, genetic similarities, junk DNA, pseudogenes, sequence alignment, synteny, vitellogenin The Vitellogenin Pseudogene Story: Unequally Yolked Ann Gauger May 24, 2016 Evolution, Genetics, Human Origins and Anthropology 7 Synteny refers to how well chromosomal sequences from different species align with one another. Read More ›
Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date May 13, 2016 CategoriesFaith & ScienceScientific Reasoning Tagged , __tedited, assumptions, common descent, Cornelius Hunter, empirical evidence, misrepresentation, S. Joshua Swamidass, science and faith, scientific debate, scientific reasoning, theological objections, theology, V.J. Torley Of Tree Rings and Humans David Klinghoffer May 13, 2016 Faith & Science, Scientific Reasoning 8 "Let us imagine that God creates a fully grown tree today, and places it in a forest." Read More ›
