Why Evolution is True is a blog written by Jerry Coyne, centered on evolution and biology but also dealing with diverse topics like politics, culture, and cats.
According to this post on Richard Dawkins’s Substack site, Jordan Peterson challenged him on Twitter to answer two questions. Dawkins decided to answer both because, as he said below, he respects Peterson: A colleague sent two challenges to me, posted by Jordan Peterson, suggesting I should respond. I’m happy to do so because I greatly … Continue reading Dawkins replies to two challenges from Jordan Peterson
The other day, when Richard Dawkins answered two questions from Jordan Peterson, I noted this: Whatever else there is to admire about Peterson, his affection for religion, which may be of the “Little People” variety (e.g., “I am no believer, but religion is essential for everyone else as a social glue”), is not only an acceptance … Continue reading Jordan Peterson explains his “religion”, emitting more waffles than IHOP
Here we have a 1.5-hour discussion between Jordan Peterson and Richard Dawkins recorded in audio (but not video) in November 2021. I wanted to listen to all of it as I still don’t have much of a sense of Peterson, who sometimes says sensible things and sometimes goes way off the rails. Well, I have … Continue reading A “discussion”between Jordan Peterson and Richard Dawkins is really a monologue by Peterson
Reader Duff called my attention to a piece by Jordan Peterson in—where else—Canada’s National Post, announcing that he’s quitting as a professor at the University of Toronto. You can read the piece by clicking on the screenshot below: As I’ve said before, I know virtually nothing about Jordan Peterson, though of course you can’t be … Continue reading Jordan Peterson hangs it up as a professor
Well, Anglican priest Tish Harrison Warren isn’t nearly as weird as Peterson, but they’re both religious and they’ve both made lists about how to improve your life and your world. Harrison’s column (click to read) is to fixing the world as a cough drop is to a cough (cough drops don’t work). I’m starting to … Continue reading Tish Harrison Warren becomes the female Jordan Peterson. And suggest your own “rules for life”!
Several readers noted a glitch in the Jordan Peterson post, which involved the text running in a narrow column way down the page, making a mess of the whole thing. Fortunately, Greg found the cause: some bad code that somehow got inserted into that post. He spent a fair amount of time fixing it, and … Continue reading Glitch fixed (I think)
Welcome to Thursday, August 24, 2023, and National Peach Pie Day, a delectable treat, rarely seen in its large form but often offered in the south as a “hand pie” for an individual dessert: It’s also Can Opener Day, National Knife Day, National Waffle Day, Independence Day or Den’ Nezalezhnosti, celebrating the independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union in 1991. Kobe … Continue reading Thursday: Hili dialogue
Here from the WaPo we hear about a special area (not really an island) near Shanghai where stray cats are sequestered. If you see the video below, you’ll see they’re better off there–people come to feed them amd adopt them–than roaming the streets. Click to read (archived free here, or go to a shorter article … Continue reading Caturday felid trifecta: China’s cat “island”; more cat memes ; lost trucker cat found; and lagniappe
