Keith Parsons's Blog, page 63

Representativeness

Last night, Mike Hout, creationist nuclear engineer from NASA, was on campus to explain why evolution was religion, not science. So I had to go and waste two hours of my life, naturally.

The was nothing new about it. (I should stop hoping I will come across new and interesting forms of nonsense very often.) But the nature of the presentation made me think again that our difficulties with

Pluralism at Ground Zero

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Harun Yahya bus ads

The Harun Yahya operation, responsible for much Islamic creationist literature, has apparently decided to strike a blow against infidel bus ads. They have put up ads on London buses themselves:

 

New Chick Tract

The latest of the same old same old.

The latest of the same old same old.

The latest of the same old same old.

A religious and secular studies major

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Testing Supernatural Hypotheses

Are supernatural hypotheses testable? This was a question raised by Victor Reppert on his Dangerous Idea blog, and I responded a couple of weeks ago. The subsequent discussion got rather confused and confusing, and I would like to try to untangle things and see if I can get clearer on the issue here. Thanks much to interlocutor Richard Wein whose gentle but persistent probing of my remarks has

Science is not democratic

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Joel Marks essay

Take a look at Joel Mark's short essay in the NYT; "Confessions of an Ex-Moralist."

It's nice to see amoralist points of views expressed once in a while.

New Chick Tract

OK, from last month, but I've been away for a while.