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.
Reader Dave called my attention to this new online magazine called “The Well”. Click on the screenshot to go to the site. And below that, the scary part (I’ve outlined it in red): Templeton! There they go again with the Big Questions, except some of them are answerable this time (“no, we don’t have free … Continue reading A new magazine collaboration between Big Think and Templeton
Reader Michael called my attention to a comic-book presentation of accommodationism at the website Nautilus, a site founded and apparently still funded by the John Templeton Foundation. Click on the screenshot if you want to see this heavy-handed presentation: The comic highlights a new venture, Science and Religion: Exploring the Spectrum (SRES), which is sponsored by the Templeton … Continue reading Templeton-sponsored accommodationist cartoon in Nautilus
This is one of the worst papers on genetics I’ve seen in the last 15 years, and although it’s from 2019, this same kind of palaver keeps coming around again and again, and in exactly the same form. And so when a reader sent me the link, I reacted instinctively. The laws of physics mandated … Continue reading In an abysmal article, Nautilus dismisses the importance of genes
Welcome to Monday, October 9, 2023, and National Moldy Cheese Day, not celebrating cheese that has gone off, but deliberately moldy cheeses like Stilton and Roquefort. Below is an absorbing ten-minute documentary on how real English Stilton is made: It’s also Columbus Day (once celebrated to mark Columbus’s landing in the Americas on Oct. 12, … Continue reading Monday: Hili dialogue
I continue to be baffled by the presence and lucubrations of apparently sentient people who claim that consciousness inheres in all matter, from electrons to us. This view that everything (including the Universe itself) is conscious is called panpsychism, and I’ve written about it at length. Why is this cockeyed theory so popular? Because it purports to … Continue reading Another befuddled person touts panpsychism, proposing some possible (but impossible) tests of the idea that all matter is conscious
Sorry, I’m not yet done with panpsychism. The more I read about this theory, the more I’m puzzled that seemingly rational people accept such a grossly benighted view of consciousness. Seriously! Especially atheists, for panpsychism resembles theology in several ways: There is not a shred of evidence supporting its tenets. It was invented to plug … Continue reading Another panpsychist flogs a dead theory
I have nothing to say, but it’s okay (Good morning!). Actually, duck duties in the pouring rain (yes, I got soaked, but in a good cause), combined with overdue grocery shopping, has put a crimp in my day. But, mirabile dictu, I have five—count them, five—pieces that are worth your time to read. I’ll give … Continue reading Five timely readings for the day
Nautilus Magazine is an online site that bills itself as “a different kind of science magazine.” And indeed it is—for it’s partly supported by the John Templeton Foundation (JTF). The Foundation is largely dedicated to showing that religion and science are compatible,—even in harmony—for Sir John left his dosh to the JTF to fund projects showing … Continue reading A bogus reconciliation of science and religion from Nautilus
