For a long time I have been watching the movement known as Creationism as they have attempted to push aside the teaching of evolution in the schools. In its place, they would teach something called “creationism” which started out once upon a time as the creation story found in the book of [...]
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Before we get started, a huge “Thank You” to Johnna Cornett who reworked Cogito! into this nifty new look. Also a big thanks to my wife, Denise, who took the photo in the masthead during a trip to Acadia National Park in Maine. Historians of science in general and paleontology in particular will recall the cautionary [...] Now that the triumph of Barak Obama at the polls is a little more than a week behind us, I have sufficiently come down from the adrenaline high of the election to think clearly about what this could mean for the United States and the world. Consider that my state of mind is not just [...] Let’s be honest; very few people read this blog (or would cop to reading it), and even fewer leave comments. So it was with some surprise that I saw a comment awaiting moderation on my recent post about the need for accrediting think tanks. I was even more surprised to see a long-detailed [...] The June 26, 2008 issue of The Nation has a brilliant, ringing address by E. L. Doctorow to a joint meeting of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society on the theme of “The Public Good: Knowledge as the Foundation for a Democratic Society.” The address was titled “The White [...] From the website of the American Bookseller’s Foundation for Free Expression comes this interesting item: On March 25, the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) condemned a new Indiana law that requires mainstream bookstores to [...] Anti-intellectualism is an American tradition; for whatever reasons, the knowledgeable individual, the brilliant thinker will have their detractors who are not so much in disagreement with what they think or believe, but with their presence. Religious dynamics have driven much of this; the great majority of the Founding Fathers were highly educated products of [...] Burning a library, especially an ancient one, is usually seen as the act of ignorant, barbaric, people with the intellect of a crow bar. The Library of Alexandria is the canonical example; burned once by the Romans, and later again by the Muslim invaders, I believe that if this library had survived, the Renaissance [...] The intellectual legacy of the western world has few equals to the discipline of science. The careful, sometimes chaotic winnowing of facts from the chaff of traditional hearsay and bias is, in the words of a good scientist friend of mine, the process by which you ensure that you aren’t fooling yourself. I [...] By Michael P. Jensen Disasters and political problems have led to some very dumb statements by some very thoughtless people. • Televangelist Pat Robertson blames the debut of homosexual comedian/actor Ellen Degeneres’s television talk show for the insurgency in Iraq. |
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