TagDavid Klinghoffer
Geneticist James D. Watson (1928–2025): His Contradictory Legacy
Watson and Crick set the stage for what philosopher Stephen Meyer calls the God Hypothesis and yet Watson was a bigoted atheist and champion of pseudoscientific racism
Maturing Toward God: An Update from Charles Murray
It’s significant that the rethinking, in this and other cases, was prompted by evidence from science
In Connecticut, the Horrors of AI Descend with Full Force
AI as “friends” and “confidants”? David Klinghoffer warns that this way of talking and thinking needs to be recognized as encouraging delusion
At The Federalist: Science Is “Catching Up” to Philosophy
David Weinberg points out that traditional descriptions of the powers of our souls are remarkably like what modern neuroscience is revealing to us in the twenty-first century
Evolution Debate: Today, a Priest Might Win Over Clarence Darrow
The National Catholic Register offers an interesting take on today’s hundredth anniversary of the Scopes trial verdict
McDowell: Is It Time Christians Moved Beyond the Evolution Wars?
Actually, a paradigm shift is already underway, Traditional Darwinism faces challenges on a number of fronts within biology studies
The Titanic: A Sobering Tale About the Fragility of Technological “Progress”
The hopes of the Enlightenment were tragically short lived
Why Science News Sucks — A Response to a Disgusted Physicist
There are reasons why science journalists can't usually be skeptical in the way that other journalists can. Here are some of themIn her usual forthright manner, theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder asks, by blog post and Youtube video, “Why does science news suck so much? It’s hardly an original question but among her suggested answers are some thoughtful reflections, including 9. Don’t forget that science is fallible A lot of media coverage on science policy remembers that science is fallible only when it’s convenient for them. When they’ve proclaimed something as fact that later turns out to be wrong, then they’ll blame science. Because science is fallible. Facemasks? Yeah, well, we lacked the data. Alright. But that’d be more convincing if science news acknowledged that their information might be wrong in the first place. The population bomb? Peak oil? The new ice Read More ›