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The Flight from Science and Reason (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences)

8 reviews

New York Academy of Sciences, 1997

The style of this book
To the critics of this book's style rather than content: This is a collection of conference proceedings. This means that the articles are basically transcribed lectures. The slightly awkward style of writing stems from the origins of the articles as speech, not text. As for the content: superb.

Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science

27 reviews
Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997

Still relevant after all these years...
Academic fads have a startlingly brief lifespan: Last year's new thing is supplanted by this year's new thing, which promises to transgress all previous boundaries and explode the oppressive partiarchal paradigms that are crushing the unprivileged. Everything that lies under the vague umbrella of "postmodernism" is one of those this-year's-new-things. But most of those academic fads didn't ...

Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design

39 reviews
Barbara Forrest, Paul R. Gross

Oxford University Press, USA, 2007

The Definitive Account On the Aims and History of Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Supporters
The barbarians are at the gates, threatening to destroy all that is noble and just in Western Civilization, especially America's preeminence in science and technology. In his new book "Only A Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul", Brown University cell biologist Kenneth R. Miller contends that we are embarked upon a titanic struggle for America's soul; a desperate intellectual ...

Race: no such thing.(Race: The Reality of Human Differences)(Book Review): An article from: New Criterion
Paul R. Gross

Foundation for Cultural Review, 2004

This digital document is an article from New Criterion, published by Foundation for Cultural Review on April 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1667 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Race: no such thing.(Race: The Reality ...

The apotheosis of Stephen Jay Gould. (Notebook).: An article from: New Criterion
Paul R. Gross

Foundation for Cultural Review, 2002

This digital document is an article from New Criterion, published by Foundation for Cultural Review on October 1, 2002. The length of the article is 2343 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: The apotheosis of Stephen Jay Gould. ...

Exorcising sociobiology.: An article from: New Criterion
Paul R. Gross

Foundation for Cultural Review, 2001

This digital document is an article from New Criterion, published by Foundation for Cultural Review on February 1, 2001. The length of the article is 3665 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Exorcising sociobiology. Author: ...

Sand Castles
Paul R. Gross

Xlibris Corporation, 2007

Sand Castles: a collection of writings by Aline Dorothy Gross, who died of cancer, at age 24, in 1980. At that time she was a graduate student in biochemistry at Cornell. It includes diary entries, letters, reflections on contemporaries and culture, and poetry. Beginning at age 14, she was treated for Hodgkin's disease, eventually with success; but in the end she died of treatment-induced cancer. Despite the catastrophe, she managed to become an ...

The claims of realism.(Darwinian Conservatism)(Book review): An article from: New Criterion
Paul R. Gross

Thomson Gale, 2006

This digital document is an article from New Criterion, published by Thomson Gale on June 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1289 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: The claims of realism.(Darwinian Conservatism)(Book ...

Design, agency, baloney.(Unintelligent Design)(Book Review): An article from: Skeptic (Altadena, CA)
Paul R. Gross

Skeptics Society & Skeptic Magazine, 2004

This digital document is an article from Skeptic (Altadena, CA), published by Skeptics Society & Skeptic Magazine on March 22, 2004. The length of the article is 3166 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Design, agency, ...

Darwinizing politics.: An article from: New Criterion
Paul R. Gross

Foundation for Cultural Review, 2004

This digital document is an article from New Criterion, published by Foundation for Cultural Review on March 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1861 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Darwinizing politics. Author: Paul R. ...

Mammoth in the garden: why harmonizing science and religion is a strong human need.(The Creationist Debate: ...
Paul R. Gross

Thomson Gale, 2007

This digital document is an article from Skeptic (Altadena, CA), published by Thomson Gale on June 22, 2007. The length of the article is 2940 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Mammoth in the garden: why harmonizing science ...

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