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Instead, I ask him about the “selfish gene,” championed by one of Gould’s critics, Richard Dawkins. Gould devotes about 50 pages in Chapter 8 of The Structure of Evolutionary Theory to explaining why he believes that the “selfish...
Explanations for conversions naturally err on the side of offering rational justifications for what is seen as irrational faith. “I would encourage people not to view it in a deterministic way, because that discounts the possibility that people might have really done the intellectual and spiritual work...
Then there is the obvious danger of disease. A study of high school alcohol-dependent students published this month by the Pittsburgh Adolescent Alcohol Research Center found that 1 in 5 girls was infected with the herpes virus. Drunken women also suffer disproportionately from rape and sexual assault. "[Women] walking...
TIME reporter Mitch Frank has written the forthcoming "Understanding September 11th: Answering Questions About the Attacks on America" (Viking Children's Books; August 5; hardcover and paperback), for young people ages 12 and up. According to his publisher, the book will be "written on a level that sixth graders and...
Last week was a notably bad one for Thailand's press, one of the freest in Asia?and it looks like more trouble is on the way. The Nation Group came in for the hardest slam: the transmission of a live interview with a government critic on the company's...