Abuses of the concept of natural selection abound not only in science news but in scientific papers in major journals as well. It’s time for a remedial course.
Attorneys are skilled in evaluating evidence and making ideas easier to understand, two skills that come in handy when assessing scientific theories as well.
I’m going to describe some of my personal encounters with Walter that are not in his biography. These I hope will bring to light the man in a fresh way.
“The book’s cover features Friedrich Nietzsche and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn holding opposite ends of a rope as they play tug of war for the soul of the West.”
It does not seem reasonable to accept the veridical status of evolution on the basis of what an increasing number of scientists perceive as a “dodgy dossier.”
Weinberg was holding court, going on about how much he knew about the origin of the universe and how atheism was the only intellectually viable option.
Johnson was one of the only intelligent design proponents interviewed for and included in PBS’s science series NOVA in an episode about the Dover case.
