Highly controversial condition, which some doubt even exists.… Read the rest
About Patrick Henry College
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonSocialism is a violation of God’s creation order.… Read the rest
An Unbeautiful Mind
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIt is pretty uplifting to be a scientist-theologian, happy with the universe, confident of the ways of the Lord. … Read the rest
Grade Inflation in US higher education
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAmericans just keep getting smarter and smarter… Read the rest
Cretino-Leftism
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonClassic Symptom of Epistemological Cretino-Leftism: Claiming that criticism, reason, rational inquiry and the pursuit of truth are “instruments of oppression”.… Read the rest
The real politics behind bad academic writing
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe desire to “question common sense” is merely the self-congratulation of someone whose “sense” is different, but no less “common.”… Read the rest
15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonScientific American provides useful tool… Read the rest
The Things We Forgot to Remember
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonOU/Radio 4 series on which bits of history we remember and which we don’t… Read the rest
Eagleton on Spivak
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonBe as obscurantist as you can get away with, decently or indecently.… Read the rest
Scott McLemee on the Norton ‘Theory’ Anthology
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAll those mind-bendingly transgressive thinkers now formed a sort of tradition.… Read the rest
Michael Ruse reads Dawkins
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonRuse sees Richard Dawkins as the atheist’s Billy Graham… Read the rest
Intergalactic Jesus
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAttempts to reconcile science and religion usually fail because religions make claims about the real world that don’t stand up to scientific scrutiny.… Read the rest
Margaret Talbot on Carol Gilligan
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonGilligan’s teaching is in many ways reactionary, which also helps to account for its extraordinary success… Read the rest
The Guardian profiles E O Wilson
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAnts, pheromones, genes, biodiversity, ecological footprints, consilience.… Read the rest
Simon Blackburn on Richard Rorty
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonRorty has a gift for ducking and weaving and laying smoke… Read the rest
Hazlitt
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonHis obscurity is a depressing lesson in contemporary cultural memory.… Read the rest
Einstein Wasn’t Writing for Time
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonEinstein’s theory of relativity did not spawn artistic modernism and moral relativism, Time magazine to the contrary notwithstanding.… Read the rest
Arguments from Incredulity and Gödel
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Basically, Godel’s theorems prove the Doctrine of Original Sin, the need for the sacrament of penance, and that there is a future eternity.’… Read the rest
A Conversation Between Rebecca Goldstein and Steven Pinker
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonBoth are obsessed with realism and the pursuit of objective knowledge… Read the rest
Azam Kamguian on Islam and Education
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe anti-secularist reaction has been bad for women and children.… Read the rest