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November 2014

November 01, 2014

MacIntyre: What the Natural Sciences Do Not Explain

I am going through a bit of a MacIntyre renaissance of late. I've realized the...

May 2014

May 07, 2014

Science Doesn't Think: Neil deGrasse Tyson Busts a Move on Philosophy

There are so many temptations to keep writing my dissertation uninterrupted instead of blogging, but...

March 2014

March 27, 2014

Liturgy, Fanny Howe, and the Horrors of Reality

I'd like to enlist the poet Fanny Howe in the service of defending Eagleton's characterization...

March 25, 2014

Squishy New Atheist Pieties Miss Gospel Love’s Ruthless Demands

What's the difference between this... ...and this? And what do both of them have to...

March 21, 2014

The Eclipse of Science During Those Terrible Middle Ages

You might think the debunking of the Bruno, Galileo (Never tortured, spent three days in prison,...

March 19, 2014

Walker Percy on the College Dorm Arguments of Sagan and deGrasse Tyson

There is an extended footnote in Walker Percy's Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help...

March 16, 2014

Bye-Bye Hypatia Science Martyr?

Continuing in a demythologizing vein I'd like to debunk the picture of Hypatia of Alexandria...

March 13, 2014

Lies, Damned Lies, and Cartoons: Cosmos on Giordano Bruno

NEWSFLASH: The Giordano Bruno portion of "Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey" (click link to watch the...

March 12, 2014

Lost in the Cosmos: Why Does Space Leave Us Cold?

Once in a while you run across a thread that nearly makes all those hours...