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Debunking

As someone who enjoys debunking myths and misconceptions, I found The Debunking Handbook by John Cook and Stephan Lewandowsky interesting. It is only six pages long, but includes some tips that will be useful for teaching in general as well as in debunking efforts.

Quotes about the New Atheists

[The New Atheist's] embarrassing incapacity for philosophical reasoning … that raises the wild non-sequitur almost to the level of a dialectical method David Bentley Hart in Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies, as quoted by Ian H. Hutchinson in the article Engaging Today’s Militant Atheist Arguments. The same article quotes Terry Eagleton [...]

Darwin Day

Since today is Darwin Day, I’d like to take the opportunity to recommend Darwin’s Forgotten Defenders by David N. Livingstone. This short book is a good history of the early scientific debate over natural selection. Unlike the incessant popular portrayal of a war between religion and science, Livingstone shows that the debate was actually over [...]