Convincing people by agreeing with them
Worrying that the theory of evolution can can undermine the idea of human equality, Rod Dreher wonders if we’d be better off not knowing some things: Admi...
Worrying that the theory of evolution can can undermine the idea of human equality, Rod Dreher wonders if we’d be better off not knowing some things: Admi...
Victor’s brilliant comment deserves a call-out: The same can be said about class work and research. Even on the same topic or in the same academic area, s...
[Warning – a long post that uses yet another tendentious sports analogy. Read at your peril.–PK] A reader questions both creationists ability to do ...
Wilt Chamberlain is one of the most dominant players in the history of basketball, if not team sports. He is the only player to score 100 points in a single gam...
Victor helpfully critiqued my goal to develop a model of human intelligence: Of course my question would be what’s the point of creating such a conceptual model...
I want to revisit this Alex Knapp quote yet again: if [politicians] hold ideas about the world around us that are fundamentally at odds with scientific evidence...
Although Alan Jacobs has much useful advice on how to develop as a thinker (see here, here, here, here and here), he goes a bit too far in criticizing writers w...
While finding atheism in the human propensity for violence, Ta-Nehisi Coates makes some curious arguments about religion (emphasis added): I don’t believe...
My writing here mostly uses the harm principle/individual rights/tolerance frameworks. Since there’s no hard evidence creationist beliefs cause actual har...
A reader worries that evolution isn’t the stopping point for creationists: Once a person willingly carves out exceptions and changes evolution to simply a...