The Tragedy of Francis Collins's Model
The depiction of Francis Collins as someone who has developed a good model for integrating faith and science is in many respects a tragic myth.
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The depiction of Francis Collins as someone who has developed a good model for integrating faith and science is in many respects a tragic myth.
Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, joins Glenn to discuss his new book, 'The Dying Citizen.' He explains how America's hippies from the 1960s are the progressive elites running our institutions today and how their 'well orchestrated' moves have created a top-down revolutio...
As a reminder of that historical reality, Evolution News has been republishing some of our past ample coverage on the theme. However, this had escaped me when it was first published: an essay at Tablet by Ohio State bioethicist Ashley K. Fernandes asking, "Why Did So Many Doctors Become Nazis?" Perhaps more so today than ever, there is a tendency to sanctify the medical profession, with the white coat serving as an icon of wisdom, compassion, and morality. But history offers a warning. A Rich Source German physicians (nurses, too) were a rich source of recruits to the Nazi cause — ...
Sat, 10 Jul 2021 16:30 UTC Given evolution's racist baggage, you might think the theory's proponents would be somewhat abashed to accuse the critics of Darwin of "white supremacy." Apparently not. Writing in Scientific American, Allison Hopper goes there: "Denial of Evolution Is a Form of White Supremacy." Who is Allison Hopper? She is a white lady, a "filmmaker and designer with a master's degree in educational design from New York University. Early in her career, she worked on PBS documentaries." Ms. Hopper "has presented on evolution at the Big History Conference in Amsterdam and Chautau...
In several articles at Evolution News (Bechly 2017a-d, 2018a-b, 2019a-d) and podcasts at ID the Future (Bechly 2019a+c) I have described in recent years how human origins research is in a ridiculous state of constant major "rewritings" and refutations of allegedly indisputable textbook wisdom. This is mainly due to surprising new discoveries of hominin fossils. The situation goes far beyond the healthy normal progress of science. Instead, it suggests that something is wrong with the general narrative, which needs not just some rewriting here and there, but a major rethinking and paradigm ch...