As the Worm Turns

Being religious is incompatible with belief in Darwinism or modern biology. That’s the lesson of this Gallup poll. It’s big news and is filtering through all the atheist blogs. Starting with Pharyngula, of course.
For those too lazy to click through to the source material, what we have is this:

This shouldn’t surprise anyone. In fact, it […]

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If you ask most atheists they’ll tell you that religious theists are somehow profoundly mistaken about their belief. Just ask Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and your local blog commenters.
But there are plenty of very smart, thoughtful theists with very strong answers to most atheist critiques of religion. So why do atheists think believers are deluded […]

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I’m going to “borrow” a post on the Florida Student Philosophy Blog because it illustrates my essential point about the relationship between reason and religious faith. (I will leave my relationship to the original posting intentionally vague, although the clever will be able to suss it out.)
Joe Long, an FSU Philosophy grad student, critiques Sam […]

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All the cool kids (Hat Tip) are doing it, so here I go:

 
You scored as Militant Atheist, Willing to take theists to task, the Militant Atheist is someone who knows deep within themselves that there is no god and they want to tell you all about how they know. Even though they’re as annoying in […]

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It’s not that I’m in love with Gonzalez, tenure or Intelligent Design; it’s just that this is the only topic that drives up hits to my pretend blog. So here we go:
Even though PZ Meyers and I agree on all the substantial facts about the world, we disagree about the interpretation of those facts. I […]

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So it turns out that Iowa State University likely acted appropriately in denying Guillermo Gonzalez tenure; the original article (subscription required) is here and a good summary can be found here. In short: Gonalez didn’t produce new stuff after moving to ISU, but tried to get tenure on his research done as a post-doc.
I’m still […]

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On the one hand, the usual suspects cry foul when Guillermo Gonzalez is denied tenure, at least in part because he is an advocate of Intelligent Design.
On the other, those who want to defend the integrity of the Scientific Establishment are just fine with it — denying tenure because a teacher believes odd and peculiar […]

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Tenure is a special thing for everyone involved in academics. It’s a reminder of the power and importance of the role of professors and teachers in society, and of the traditions that uphold that role.
So it’s reasonable to try to protect the institution of tenure from outside attacks by dangerous fools.
But what’s not reasonable is […]

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