‘I found a dimpled spider, fat and white…’… Read the rest
Barbara Forrest on the Wedge at Work
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonHow ID creationism is wedging its way into the cultural and academic mainstream.… Read the rest
Confessions of a Lonely Atheist
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Among the more irritating consequences of our flagrantly religious society is the special dispensation that mainstream religions receive.’… Read the rest
Tracy Morton and Kay Wilkinson v Vardy
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonVardy schools accord equal importance to both creationism and theories of evolution.… Read the rest
Behe’s Empty Box
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonReviews and Criticisms of Michael Behe’s book: Darwin’s Black Box:
The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution… Read the rest
Behe and Intelligent Design
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIrreducible complexity is a term invented by Behe. It is a myth: there is no irreducible complexity in living organisms.… Read the rest
Behe and Intelligent Design
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIrreducible complexity is a term invented by Behe. It is a myth: there is no irreducible complexity in living organisms.… Read the rest
Nigerian State Segregates Travel
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘You have no excuse to carry a woman who is neither your wife nor your mother on a motorcycle.’… Read the rest
Kenan Malik’s Debate with Steve Fuller
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIf there are two cultures involved in the Sokal affair they are shoddy scholarship on the one side and an attempt at rational thought on the other. … Read the rest
So where are these powerful arguments?
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAlister McGrath says Richard Dawkins is a crude religious propagandist… Read the rest
The Pope is also a head of state, and that’s bad
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe Vatican’s fictive statehood allows it to promote its retrograde gender values in multilateral forums as well… Read the rest
Mediawatchwatch interviews Stephen Green of ‘Christian Voice’
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonOther writings are unashamed myth, but not the Bible.… Read the rest
Natural History on ‘Intelligent Design’
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonArticles by Forrest, Scott, Miller, Pennock, Behe, Dembski, more.… Read the rest
Scott McLemee does a close reading of ‘Battlefield Earth’
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonTerl’s responsibilities include blackmailing fellow Psychlo Forest Whitaker and laughing at his own jokes.… Read the rest
The great Kabbalah con
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAn organisation that charges £860 for dinner, ‘healing’ water and some books in Aramaic… Read the rest
Company recalls ‘offensive’ sandals
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonLaceys footwear, in London, made the decision after it received complaints from ‘the Hindu community.’… Read the rest
Oregon’s ‘Cultural Competence’ Plan
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonMany faculty members worried about insertion of undefined political notion ‘cultural competency’ into every aspect of administration, teaching and performance evaluation… Read the rest
Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen on Juliet Mitchell
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThere is something mysterious about the way psychoanalysis perpetually raises itself from its ashes.… Read the rest
How Fabrications Differ from a Lie
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Did Freud lie?’ is the great question.… Read the rest
Frederick Crews on ‘Intelligent Design’
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonCreationism sheds its Dogpatch image and takes a subtler approach.… Read the rest