discoveryprocess.net http://discoveryprocess.net Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:14:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Atheism and political liberalism http://www.pointofinquiry.org/robert_price_chris_mooney_must_atheists_also_be_liberals/

Does it make sense to create a podcast discussing whether atheists must be liberals without even attempting to define “liberal” (and, by extension, “conservative”?)

To my mind, Chris Mooney is just too partisan to “c0-replace” D J Grothe as…

]]> http://discoveryprocess.net/?p=38 Fundamentalism? In pondering “market fundamentalism,” David Sloan Wilson dedicates a post to defining a concept of fundamentalism which, I trust, will be soon wielded against free-market folks.

Wilson asks the reader to envision a 2×2 grid with “good…

]]> http://discoveryprocess.net/?p=30 Stability at all cost? ]]> http://discoveryprocess.net/?p=24 The Lou Dobbs of the left Just as Lou Dobbs talks himself into believing that two people voluntarily trading with one another yields a net loss if they are both US citizens, various lefty types tie themselves into knots trying to convince themselves that destruction is…

]]> http://discoveryprocess.net/?p=21 Evolution vs Economics? Apparently David Sloan Wilson is one of a long series of non-economist academics who think they understand economics, but really don’t. The link is to the fifth of a series of posts contrasting evolutionary theory with a version of economic…

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