Apologetics 315 (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
On November 30, 2009, Stephen Meyer & Richard Sternberg debated Donald Prothero & Michael Shermer on the topic: The Origins of Life . Read about the debate here , at the American Freedom Alliance website . (original audio page here ) Robert Crowther's recap is here . Michael Shermer's recap is here . Full MP3 Audio here . (2 hours) Enjoy. By the way, Stephen Meyer's...
Evolution News & Views (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Michael Shermer has now written about the debate he had with Stephen Meyer and Richard Sternberg earlier this week. He's far classier than his debate partner, Donald Prothero, but alas not all that much smarter. His comment here is basically just the same as his rebuttal was at the debate. It didn't fly then, and it doesn't fly now. You'd think that with all the discussion going on since...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
On Monday, November 30, 2009, Occidental College paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Donald Prothero and I teamed up against Intelligent Design (ID) proponents Stephen Meyer and...
The Adventures of Tobasco da Gama (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
As if it weren’t bad enough that one of his more famous books is just a paraphrase of Pinker’s The Blank Slate or that his PowerPoint presentations are so awful as to be considered crimes against humanity under the Geneva Convention or that he insists on promoting his libertarianism in every talk, no matter how [...]
The Panda's Thumb (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
... evolution for the general reader. Last night, Monday, November 30, Prothero debated (along with Michael Shermer) ID advocates Stephen Meyer (longtime...
Evolution News & Views (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Occidental College professor Donald Prothero, who along with Michael Shermer debated Stephen Meyer and Richard Sternberg on November 30, complains that folks at the Discovery Institute are now attacking him with “everything they have.” Prothero writes on the NCSE’s blog Panda’s Thumb, “Normally, it is not worth dignifying their garbage with a response,”...
Memoirs of a Skepchick (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... I don’t think it’s necessary to mock the religious and spew hatred at them for merely believing. Michael Shermer just wrote a whiny article on not beating up the believers, but I really loved Brian Thompson’s article over at Amateur Scientist, and highly recommend you read it after answering today’s quest What’s your take on the atheists vs religious “war”? Do you think we should...
Zen Mischief (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
... and reduce the ecological consequences of food production – a triple challenge. Next, Michael Shermer on the psychological differences between conservatives and liberals . [Jonathan] Haidt [psychologist; University of Maryland] proposes that the foundations of our sense of right and wrong rest within “five innate and universally available psychological systems” that...
Evolution News & Views (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
... distinction and accomplishments. So now lets get some things straight. I had no association with Michael Shermer before I contacted him with regard to his willingness to debate the subject of evolution. After he agreed to appear, I asked him for a reference of someone who could partner him in the debate. He mentioned your name. I readily agreed to the recommendation. I then suggested...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
... networks ignored it for 14 days ? The Morning Meeting host brought on Yale scientist Dan Esty and Michael Shermer, executive director of the Skeptic Society, to debate the revelation that hacked E-mails to a climate change institute show a willingness to fake data. An appalled Ratigan continued,: "...Then the veil or eye of suspicion is cast upon the entire data set when a certain...
Canadian Cynic (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Blogging Tory and relentless Christian apologist Dick Ball brings the funny : Quote of the Day: On Michael Shermer (Skeptic) "Shermer thinks science is a game you play where you aren’t really after the truth but just trying to explain things without God." Hate to break it to you, Dick, but that's exactly what science is -- an ongoing search for naturalistic explanations....
Evolution News & Views (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Need evidence for Darwinian evolution? Just make it up. That’s the lesson of Donald Prothero’s book, Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007). Prothero is a professor of geology at Occidental College in Los Angeles. On November 30, he teamed up with atheist Michael Shermer (founding publisher of Skeptic Magazine) to debate...
Evolution News & Views (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
You can often tell who won a debate by the plausibility of an account. In that regard, Donald Prothero made many dubious claims about his debate yesterday with Michael Shermer against Steve Meyer and Richard Sternberg. Let's hone in on a couple short comments. Prothero writes:"I know I caught [Meyer] off-guard, since I have degrees in both biology and geology, and know most of their...
