Tag: Steven Pinker

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 5, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Charles Murray, cognitive psychologists, Coming Apart, Jesse Bering, materialism, modernism, Nancy Pearcey, post-modernism, Richard Dawkins, soul, Steven Pinker, Taking Religion Seriously, terminal lucidity, Threshold, verbal communication, Wall Street Journal}

As Evidence of a Soul, Charles Murray and Steven Pinker Debate Terminal Lucidity

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 5, 2025

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

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Pinker himself is fresh from getting a book tour Canceled by a humanist group. He’s apparently not one of the atheist heroes any more. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 2, 2025

Categories
Chemistry
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Anna Krylov, atheism, brains, cancel culture, censorship, diversity, Heterodox STEM, humans, inclusion, mammals, materialism, Nature (journal), Popular Science, private truth, reproductive organs, Richard Dawkins, sex binary, Steven Pinker}

When Science Degenerates into a Spoils System

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 2, 2025

Chemistry, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Freedom

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Chemistry professor Anna Krylov forces us to look at that in discouraging detail. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 21, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, Agustín Fuentes, cancel culture, Carole Hooven, evolutionary biologists, Fox & Friends, gender, gender medicine, Harvard University, Helen Lewis, Princeton University, puberty blockers, Sex Is a Spectrum, Steven Pinker, survival, T: The Story of Testosterone, Tablet, The Atlantic, The Lancet, truth, Washington Post}

In the War on Reality, a Biologist Became a Casualty

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 21, 2025

Evolution, Medicine

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Enough people may still believe that the human being is not just an animal and there is such a thing as truth. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 31, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, anatomy, Ball State University, bigotry, blasphemy, cancel culture, Censor of the Year Award, censorship, Center for Science and Culture, Colin Wright, evolution, freedom from religion foundation, gender, heresy, intelligent design, J.K. Rowling, Jerry Coyne, Lawrence Krauss, locker rooms, Ohio, realism, restrooms, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker, surgery, The Boundaries of Science, transgenderism, University of Chicago, Wall Street Journal, woke ideology}

Standing O for Jerry Coyne?

_{David Klinghoffer
March 31, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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Using his power and the prestige brand of his university to bully someone like Eric Hedin was nothing less than loathsome. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 21, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, American Humanist Association, C.S. Lewis, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, debates, Denis Noble, Denyse O'Leary, Francis Collins, Francis Crick, intelligent design, James Shapiro, Mendelian genetics, Michael Egnor, Miracles (book), MIT, Old Testament, qualia, Richard Dawkins, Roger Penrose, Rudder Theatre, Santa Fe, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Pinker, Steven Weinberg, Stuart Kauffman, Texas A&M University, The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Blind Watchmaker, Trotter Prize, Tufts University, violence, Zeitgeist}

Dawkins and Picard Win This Year’s Trotter Prize

_{William A. Dembski
February 21, 2025

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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A reflection on the 2025 Trotter Prize Lecture delivered by Oxford's Richard Dawkins and MIT's Rosalind Picard. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 7, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Tagged
, Ball State University, Censor of the Year, Center for Science and Culture, chromosomes, Colin Wright, Eric Hedin, freedom from religion foundation, John West, religion, Richard Dawkins, sex binary, Steven Pinker, Stockholm Syndrome, University of Chicago, uterus, vagina, woke ideology, woman}

In the Battle for Biology, Woke Folks Come for Coyne

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 7, 2025

Bioethics, Biology, Evolution, Faith & Science, Mathematics

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Woke is, at bottom, a war on reality. It is a war on math. And a war on science. That includes a war on biology, of course. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
December 11, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Philosophy
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", Alvin Plantinga, Barbara Forrest, brain, C.S. Lewis, censorship, Charles Darwin, Christian colleges, Christianity, cosmologists, goodness, intelligent design, Lawrence Krauss, materialism, monkey, National Association of Scholars, Northwestern University, Paul Gross, physical laws, post-truth, Richard Dawkins, scientific materialism, Steven Pinker, William Graham, woke ideology, worldview}

How Scientific Materialism Begot Woke Ideology

_{William A. Dembski
December 11, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Philosophy, Reproductive Science

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I’m seeing people like Krauss assume the role as champions of traditional academic values (reason, merit, free discourse) against the barbarian hordes. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 4, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Technology
Tagged
, Christopher Hitchens, cosmos, David Berlinski, Eric Metaxas, evolution, human condition, human nature, humans, military history, mind, nobility, progress, Romans, Science After Babel, Socrates in the City, Steven Pinker, Steven Weinberg, universe, war, wisdom}

Are Humans Progressing Toward Evolutionary Perfection?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 4, 2023

Evolution, Faith & Science, Technology

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Men are not about to become like gods. “I’m a strong believer in original sin,” quips David Berlinski. Read More ›

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Author
Nancy Pearcey

Date
June 16, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Tagged
, African Americans, american enterprise institute, Charles Murray, criminality, Darwinism, drugs, evolution, George Gilder, just-so stories, marriage, men, morality, rape, religion, Robert Wright, Rutgers University, Scripture, sexuality, sin, Steven Pinker, The Moral Animal, The New Yorker, The Toxic War on Masculinity, Victorians, violence, women}

The Toxic Assumptions of Evolutionary Psychology about Men

_{Nancy Pearcey
June 16, 2023

Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology

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As Darwinism is discredited scientifically, we should challenge the way it has shaped the secular code for masculinity. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
June 16, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, anti-evolutionism, biological systems, Cambridge University Press, Darwinian processes, entropy, evolution, Evolution News, Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse (series), intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, mathematician, Neo-Darwinism, Richard Dawkins, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Steven Pinker, William A. Dembski, Young Earth Creationists}

The Success of Mathematics in Advancing Intelligent Design: A Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse

_{William A. Dembski
June 16, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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If there’s one thing that Rosenhouse does well in this book, it is to misrepresent intelligent design and its use of mathematics. Read More ›