Is Listening the Same as Reading?
I have a special-needs son and often have to watch him outside, as when we go for a walk together or drive around in my pickup (he loves to go for car rides). As a result, I’m often listening to…
Bill Dembski
Freedom, Technology, Education
Bill Dembski
Freedom, Technology, Education
Only the educated are free — Epictetus
Tribeca Film Festival cancels the film Vaxxed
A week or so ago Robert De Niro was still supporting the showing of Vaxxed at the Tribeca Film Festival. Then last weekend he pulled the plug. De Niro and his wife Grace have a son with autism. So do…
Remembering Leo Kadanoff
On October 26th, 2015, I received an email from a colleague of my former dissertation supervisor, Leo Kadanoff, informing me that Leo had died that morning. It’s now several weeks since his passing, but I still would like to pay…
Darwinian Fundamentalism Index
Introduction How loyal a disciple of Charles Darwin’s are you, really? Take this test and find out. Higher scores indicate increasing loyalty to Darwin and his ideas. At the extreme, loyalty to Darwin becomes unreflective, dogmatic, and immune to countervailing…
Political Correctness Inventory
THE POLITICAL CORRECTNESS INVENTORY (PCI) How politically correct (PC) are you? The Political Correctness Inventory (PCI) will help you to answer that question. On it, you will find pairs of statements representing the politically correct and politically incorrect position on…
Fundamentalist Belief Inventory
Introduction Fundamentalism denotes a belief system that draws sharp boundaries between who’s right, who’s wrong, who’s in, and who’s out. The term “fundamentalism” arose in the early 20th century in an attempt to identify the core doctrines of the Christian…