Wednesday, December 14, 2005

A sequence of views ...

Arts & Letters Daily links to an interview with evangelical Darwinian Richard Dawkins at Beliefnet. There's a link at the bottom to a piece by Gregg Easterbrook that raises some questions about Dawkins's position. That piece links to another Easterbrook piece, an appreciation of the late astronomer Fred Hoyle, a scientist who did important work in his field -- notably regarding nucleogenesis -- unlike Dawkins, an entomologist (his specialty is arachnids) who preaches how wonderful science is, but doesn't seem to practice it very much. All three pieces need to be read in order to gain, I think, a proper perspective.

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