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Here we go again: Ben Stein, a really bad scientist and mediocre economist, feels intelligent-design proponents have been slighted [April 21]. I will state the point again: scientists are uncomfortable with I.D. because it is a warm, fuzzy belief unprovable by any scientific method. Maybe Stein would like to propose a scientific methodology to prove I.D. It would have to be a doozy. Roy Senn, NEW HARTFORD...
...Stein vs. Darwin...
...produce. Pforzheimer House will be screening “An Inconvenient Truth” today, with House Master and Professor of Biological Oceanography James J. McCarthy speaking beforehand and taking questions after. Each upperclass House is holding activities for Earth Day, such as dishware return drives and environmentally themed stein clubs. Love Your Earth Week culminates Saturday with a “Charles River Cleanup” in the morning and the afternoon EAC Earth Day Celebration on the MAC Quad, according to REP representative Nicole E. Hughes ’09. The week’s events might...
...effort—the Crimson won four of the day’s five races—Harvard’s varsity eight came up short in its event, posting a time of 6:28.83. The Bears finished the race in 6:23.73 on their way to winning the Stein Cup. Since the inception of the program, the Crimson has won the cup 36 times, while Brown took the Stein Cup for just the seventh time on Saturday. “The varsity race was pretty tough,” captain four-seat Joe Medioli said...
...fairness to Stein, his opponents have hardly covered themselves in glory. Evolutionary biologists and social commentators have lately taken to answering the claims of intelligent-design boosters not with clear-eyed scientific empiricism but with sneering, finger-in-the-eye atheism. Biologist P.Z. Myers, for example, tells Stein that religion ought to be seen as little more than a soothing pastime, a bit like knitting. Books such as Christopher Hitchens' God Is Not Great and Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion often read like pure taunting, as when Hitchens pettily and pointedly types God as lowercase god. Tautology as typography...