Monthly Archives: May 2010

My review of the Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology

A couple months ago, I wrote a review on Amazon of the Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology, a book Luke was quite enthusiastic about. The review promised a more detailed review at my blog, which I’ve sort of realized I’ll never get around to, but here’s the original: Like Luke Muehlhauser (author of the current [...]

Most US Protestants belong to creationist denominations

Jerry Coyne criticizes a study that makes a big deal of the fact that 63% of believers in the U.S. belong to religious organizations that are officially pro-evolution. Coyne rightly points out that even in pro-evolution denominations, lots of believers in the pews have creationist sympathies. He only briefly mentions, however, the fact that “This [...]

Tone vs. Content

Russell Blackford has a post arguing that tone is important, even if a lot of the things people say about tone are foolish: For these sorts of reasons, intelligent discussion of tone is always in order. The problem is likely to be that a lot of discussion of tone is just not very intelligent – [...]