Creationism Feels Right, but That Doesn't Make it So

Scientific American by Jesse Bering | Mar. 22, 2009 (Review)

Presently I’m attending a small symposium on “Belief and Reason” at Trinity College, Cambridge, being sponsored by the Perrott-Warrick Fund. It’s a rather intimate affair with mostly cognitive scientists discussing the latest research and theory on everything from paranormal beliefs to free will to the placebo effect. One of the standout talks Monday was by Yale psychologist Paul Bloom, who gave a presentation titled “Is Religion Natural?” He ... Full Story »

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Subjects: Sci/Tech, Health, Religion
Topics: Biology, Evolution Debate, Psychology, Science and Religion
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Posted by: Posted by Leo Romero - Mar 22, 2009 - 9:19 AM PDT
Reviewed by: Leo Romero (review), Walter Cox (review), Kevin Barry (review)
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Walter Cox
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 by Walter Cox - Mar. 22, 2009

Frankly, I found this piece somewhat dissatisfying on an intellectual level, despite the introduction of some new research data. The author associates the "unnnaturalness" of evolutionary thinking with the idea that evolutionary thinking must therefore be more advanced. And he uses this association to support his obvious prejudice that creationist thinking is regressive. What is missing from this facile analysis is starkly evident--he refers to "Darwin’s mindless machine of natural selection" without considering the possibility that observed evolutionary progress, though mutation and natural selection, might at times have been a guided process. Of course the author would probably maintain that this simply proves his ... More »

So we start where we began, with hopeless evolutionists and hopeless creationists forever at odds.

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Leo Romero
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 by Leo Romero - Mar. 22, 2009
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