Relying on intuition leads nowhere

One of the biggest reasons that people have a hard time believing in evolution is that it doesn’t make intuitive sense. How could my great(X 1000) grandmother have been a monkey? Even given the vast timescale that such changes occurred, it just seems impossible.  In cases such as this, one has to disregard intuitive feelings.      [...]

The Discovery Institute believes there is little value in science

Wesley Smith writes about an op-ed piece in the New York Times by Brian Greene. I had already read this piece previously and actually quoted it here. Greene writes about how science can be inspirational.  He starts out by referring to a letter from a soldier in Iraq.  In the letter, the soldier writes how [...]

Why don’t cars evolve?

On the May 30th post entitled “Do car engineers turn to Darwinian evolution or intelligent design?”, Casey Luskin writes:
Don’t read into this post too much.
I am sorry, but even with the disclaimer, there is plenty to read into this post. Casey Luskin thinks that the use of the term “intelligent design” and not evolution when [...]