Sex Differences Above the Neck
The evidence for innate sex differences has been accumulating for decades. Steve Stewart-Williams's new book is a welcome inventory.
Jerry A. Coyne
Jerry A. Coyne is Professor of Ecology and Evolution, emeritus at the University of Chicago and is author of Why Evolution is True and Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible.
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Can Art Convey Truth?
Ways of feeling are not ways of knowing.
Religion: A Bad Prescription for America
Though faith may provide comfort to some, it cannot produce reliable facts about nature that can be used to repair a divided populace.
Damned in Amsterdam: A Bizarre Deplatforming
We wanted to give a talk on how ideological bias hampers science—and were disinvited because of our politics.
David Gelernter is Wrong About Ditching Darwin
The last lesson of Gelernter’s piece is that while we shouldn’t judge someone’s arguments by their credentials alone, neither should we give unwarranted credence to those who have impressive credentials, particularly when they pronounce on a field in which they lack expertise.
Why We Shouldn't Bet on Having Free Will—A Reply to William Edwards
It makes no more sense to believe in a numinous “will” that subverts the laws of physics than to accept a god for which there’s no evidence. Any reforms of society should begin by accepting the unalterable truths of nature.
Secular Morality Does Not Depend on Faith
Here, then, we have a secular ethics connected not to 'nothing,' but to a preference for justice, fairness, and impartiality.
Secular Humanism is Not a Religion
Staddon makes an oddly tendentious argument for the religious character of secular humanism.