Over at New Scientist, Andy Coghlan takes on BioLogos (Francis Collins’s new accommodationist website), and its theistic assertion that God can act through the “uncertainties” in quantum mechanics. (This is also an argument made by Kenneth Miller in Finding Darwin’s God.) Coghlan quotes BioLogos and then dismantles the argument: “With quantum mechanical uncertainty and the […]
Earlier I posted about dancing birds and centenarian Nobelists, but accommodationism still dogs my heels. It comes at me today in two forms: Francis’s Collins’s execrable Biologos website, funded by our old friends the Templeton Foundation, and an article in the Guardian by Kenneth Miller about transitional fossils. Both of these items offer a faith/science […]
I guess I can’t stay away from this issue. P. Z. has called my attention to Francis Collins’s latest endeavor to forcibly marry science and faith: The BioLogos Foundation. The Templeton Foundation, of course, has its sticky fingers in this pie: The BioLogos Mission The BioLogos Foundation promotes the search for truth in both the […]
For if we ever begin to suppress our search to understand nature, to quench our own intellectual excitement in a misguided effort to present a united front where it does not and should not exist, then we are truly lost. –Stephen Jay Gould If you’re a regular at this website, you’ve heard me complain about […]
As long as I have been a scientist, I have lived with my colleagues’ view that one cannot promote the acceptance of evolution in this country without catering to the faithful. This comes from the idea that many religious people who would otherwise accept evolution won’t do so if they think it undermines their faith, […]
