I am so tired of people making the same old arguments about why science and faith are compatible, not bothering to listen to the other side. Over at The Intersection, Chris Mooney is using authority arguments to support his case for compatibility, posting a video of Eugenie Scott (director of the National Center for Science [...]
Some newspapers and science journals have called atheist-scientists this week, asking for opinions on Francis Collins’s appointment as head of the National Institutes of Health. In lieu of a phone interview, Steve Pinker wrote the following to a reporter from one such journal (copy slightly edited for web publication). Thanks to Steve for permission to [...]
We all know that cheetahs are fast, but I didn’t know they were this fast: over 60 mph, and some say over 70. That is three times the speed of Usain Bolt, the world’s fastest man, when he ran his world-record 100 meter dash. Imagine: by the time Bolt made it from the blocks to [...]
