Chris Mooney
From American Association for the Advancement of Science, Condescension Disguised as “Dialogue”
How Do You Explain Your Opponents: Irrational or Ideological?
Science Left Behind Can Teach Us about Political Tactics of Intelligent Design Critics
Chris Mooney’s The Republican Brain: Self-Therapeutic and Self-Refuting
The Republican Brain vs. Science Left Behind
Butterfly Mimicry Still a Challenge for Evolution
In Case You Didn’t Think the Whole “Denying Science” Meme Had Descended to the Level of Self-Parody
The Comment that Chris Mooney’s Discover Magazine Blog Won’t Publish
In May, I wrote an article on Evolution News & Views commenting on Darwinian Atheists Lecturing Religious People on Proper Belief in God. Chris Mooney then wrote a response, and I then tried to submit a comment in reply. For some reason, perhaps innocent, perhaps not–I don’t really know–Chris Mooney’s Discover Magazine Blog refused to publish the following comment from me: Chris, you make hay that my blog post is apparently posted on some “BibleProphecyUpdate” website. You then say “Wow.” For the record, I’ve no idea what “BibleProphecyUpdate” is, nor do I know anything about them. I originally posted my blog at Evolution News & Views (ENV) — just follow the link from my name. From your post here today, Read More ›
On Darwinian Atheists Lecturing Religious People on Proper Belief in God
I love watching atheists try to tell religious people what they should believe about God. I’m not talking about atheists trying to convince religious people not to believe in God. We expect that. I’m talking about atheists telling religious people how to continue properly believing in God. I find this incredibly amusing, because, you know, atheists are experts in things like keeping faith. Michael Ruse is a prime specimen. An atheist (he says “I find it a great relief no longer to believe in God”) and self-declared “ex-Christian,” a few years back Ruse wrote a book titled Can a Darwinian be a Christian? and answered “Absolutely!” (p. 217) Now, in a recent piece in the UK Guardian, Ruse lectures none Read More ›