A blog recommendation 7 Mar 2009 Archetype is a blog on stuff I like, including taxonomy and entomology. It’s by Roberto Keller, a graduate of AMNH and Cornell. Go check it out. Some nice stuff on homologies in insects. Evolution Species and systematics
Evolution Edis on Islamic creationism 21 Feb 2008 One of the more curious episodes in recent cultural history is the adoption, word for word, by Islamists particularly in Turkey of the American Christian fundamentalist antievolution schtick. Nobody knows more about this than Taner Edis, whose book An Illusion of Harmony: Science And Religion in Islam outlines how this… Read More
Biology Wilkins on philosophy of science 12 Aug 2014 As part of the Science Week activities that informed the last few posts, I will be giving a brief introduction to philosophy of science as well as talking about the relation between science and religion shortly. The organiser of this event (on 23 August, at the East Melbourne Unitarian Church)… Read More
Evolution The greatest threat: antimodernism 27 Apr 200818 Sep 2017 In the thread on the recent debate between Winston and Dennett, I said that I thought the greatest threat to scientific progress and rationality was antimodernism, which was not always religious. Here, I’m going to elaborate on that cryptic comment. Read More