abacus-on-white-background-stockpack-adobe-stock-240043381-stockpack-adobestock Type post Author William A. Dembski Date April 8, 2024 CategoriesBiologyEthicsMathematicsScience Education Tagged , 1984 (novel), Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Alvin Plantinga, Aristotle, baseball, brainwashing, Brooklyn College, cancel culture, China, colors, constructivism, deconstruction, doors, Euclid, freedom, Friedrich Nietzsche, gender, George Orwell, John Archibald Wheeler, Joseph Stalin, knowledge, Live Not By Lies, Michel Foucault, Ontario, philosophers, Pythagoras, Queer Theory, queering, relativism, Richard Rorty, sex, teachers, transgenderism, truth, Twitter, University of Chicago, University of Haifa The War on 2 + 2 = 4 William A. Dembski April 8, 2024 Biology, Ethics, Mathematics, Science Education 23 The people weighing in against 2 + 2 = 4 are not mathematicians but in education departments where they teach the teaching of mathematics. Read More ›
Gertrude Himmelfarb Type post Author Michael Flannery Date December 23, 2020 CategoriesEvolution Tagged , Brooklyn, Brooklyn College, Daniel Dennett, Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Darwinism, David Berlinski, Down House, Edmund Burk, England, George Eliot, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Irving Kristol, Jacques Barzun, James D. Watson, Janet Browne, Jews, Lord Acton, Oliver Cromwell, Protestants, Roman Catholic, The Devil’s Delusion, The New Republic, The People of the Book, Thomas Henry Huxley, University of Chicago #10 Story of 2020: Farewell to Gertrude Himmelfarb Michael Flannery December 23, 2020 Evolution 7 It is comforting to know that Himmelfarb never lost her intellectual acuity or her moral passion on the subject. Read More ›
Charles Darwin Type post Author Robert F. Shedinger Date January 13, 2020 CategoriesFaith & Science Tagged , __edited, Abraham Lincoln, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association of Theological Schools, Barbara McClintock, Brooklyn College, Buddha, central dogma, creationism, Daniel Dennett, Darwinian, Discovery Institute, Divine Foot, Douglas Futuyma, E.O. Wilson, Ernst Mayr, evolutionary biology, Francis Collins, Francis Crick, Francisco Ayala, intelligent design, J.B.S. Haldane, James Shapiro, James Watson, jesus, John Avise, Luther College, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Marcos Eberlin, mental illness, Moses, non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA), North American Teilhard Society, Paul, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lewontin, skeptics, sociobiology, Stanford University, Stephen Jay Gould, teleology, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Thomson Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, William Provine Religion, Science, and Evolution: Confessions of a Darwinian Skeptic Robert Shedinger January 13, 2020 Faith & Science 30 As I read through the scientific literature of evolutionary biology to try and convince myself of its accuracy and coherence, I was struck by the frequency with which I encountered “religious” language. Read More ›
Gertrude Himmelfarb Type post Author Michael Flannery Date January 3, 2020 CategoriesEvolution Tagged , __edited, Brooklyn College, Charles Darwin, Daniel Dennett, Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, David Berlinski, David Quammen, E.O. Wilson, Edmund Burk, England, George Eliot, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Irving Kristol, Jacques Barzun, Janet Browne, Jews, Julian Huxley, Library of Congress, Oliver Cromwell, The Devil’s Delusion, The New Republic, The People of the Book, University of Chicago, Winston Churchill Farewell to Gertrude Himmelfarb, Brutally Honest Historian of the “Darwinian Revolution” Michael Flannery January 3, 2020 Evolution 6 Written in 1959, her monumental book, Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution, continues to tower over Whiggish studies on the subject. Read More ›