Maverick Philosopher

Jerry Coyne on Religion as Child Abuse

Coyne writes (emphasis added): Dawkins has taken flak for characterizing religious indoctrination of children as “child abuse.” Well, look at this picture and deny it. [The picture depicts a young child holding a sign that reads: Be...

Jerry Coyne Talks Sense for a Change!

Here: It’s time that angry liberals stop calling every Republican a misogynist, a Nazi, or a white supremacist. On left-wing websites everywhere, these terms are being dispensed like gumballs from a machine. If we really want to take ...

Coyne versus Vallicella Vapaista Valinnoista

I can't read it, but maybe you can. It is a response to my Jerry Coyne on Why You Really Don't Have Free Will. Update (22 August): Ilari Malkki writes: I noticed that you posted a link to my blog post "Coyne versus Vallicella Vapai...

Links and Plinks

Tatto this: Think before you ink. Or this: I think therefore I do not ink. Better: I inked, therefore I did not think. Or the equivalent of: This page intentionally left blank. Michael Sudduth, Getting Sober about Survival (1/3)....

Plato's Cave and the Garden of Eden

An archeologist who claimed to have uncovered the site of Plato's Cave would be dismissed as either a prankster or a lunatic. There never was any such cave as is described in the magnificent Book VII of Plato's Republic. And there neve...

Islam's Religious Exemption from Criticism

A penetrating article by William Kilpatrick. The following comparison of Islamism and Communism is very good. Liberals ought to study it unless they wish to remain enclosed in their dangerous, and possibly terminal, ignorance. Emphasi...