A huff at the Huffington Post 10 Aug 2009 Barret Brown has a piece on Intelligent Design up at the Huffington Post (which, so long as you ignore the “health” writers, is often very interesting). Read the comments too: Wesley Elsberry has some good things to say, among others. Creationism and Intelligent Design
Creationism and Intelligent Design Are creationists rational? 28 Apr 2009 My Synthese essay has finally been published [paywall], in which I argue that on the basis of the more realistic notion of rationality devised by Herbert Simon, called “bounded rationality”, certain heuristics are liable to lead people to rationally choose to believe in creationism under the right conditions. It’s a… Read More
Academe Synthese News 16 Jul 201116 Jul 2011 This post will give updates of the boycott status and I will move it to the top when it is updated. Update: Mohan Matthen asks if we are increasingly finding legal intervention in academic publishing. PD Magnus withdraws a paper from a Synthese special issue. The Status Page is now… Read More
Creationism and Intelligent Design The lying Origin 30 Oct 2009 How can you tell when a creationist is lying on TV? When their lips move… Ray Comfort has published an “edition” of the Origin of Species, with, of course, a 50 page “introduction” that repeats all the usual creationist lies. But to add insult to injury, he also excises some… Read More