Karen Armstrong has just published a book, The Case for God, which appears to be a kind of oatmeal-y, warm and fuzzy New Theology argument for God, or at least the kind of nebulous and transcendent Ground of Being who passes for God among university theologians. (Sample: “We need to think of God not as [...]
Well, I’m no longer alone in having refused to speak at an event sponsored by the insidious John Templeton Foundation. Several of us got a report from Richard Dawkins this morning, who is at the Darwin bicentenary celebration at Cambridge University:
Robert Hinde is the elder statesman of the science of Ethology and one one of [...]
In Darwin’s time, the fossil record was far spottier than it is now, and no transitional forms were known. (Darwin does mention the transitional “bird” Archaeopteryx in a later edition of The Origin, but didn’t realize its significance.) Thus, the evolutionary origin of new “types” of animals and plants was largely a matter of guesswork.
Speculating [...]
