Author Archives: Mark R. Kelly

How the Right Is Crazy Desperate to Connect Charlie Kirk’s Killer to Things They Don’t Like

Posted on Saturday 13 September 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

It’s been quite a display of shameless motivated thinking the past two days. Many people see what they want to see, but conservatives are especially prone to this. (That’s why they’re so easily fooled by Trump, about everything.) A better … Continue reading →

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Jerry A. Coyne: FAITH VS. FACT, post 4

Posted on Saturday 13 September 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Subtitled “Why Science and Religion are Incompatible” (Viking, May 2015, xxii + 311pp, including 46pp of acknowledgements, notes, references,and index) (Earlier: post 1; post 2; post 3) Summary: Chapter 4: Faith Strikes Back Faith sometimes claims that it can deduce … Continue reading →

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Kneejerk Accusations

Posted on Friday 12 September 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

While yesterday there was much invective on the right against the left because the victim of Charlie Kirk’s assassination was a well-known MAGA figure. So the left must have done it! That’s their thinking. Vox, Eric Levitz, 11 Sep 2025: … Continue reading →

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The Real Americans?

Posted on Thursday 11 September 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

We live in a bizarre world in which many, perhaps most, Americans deify people who are against basic American values. (Because what really drives conservatives is not the Constitution, but the OT.) So many news posts and Facebook posts about … Continue reading →

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Jerry A. Coyne: FAITH VS. FACT, post 3

Posted on Thursday 11 September 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Subtitled “Why Science and Religion are Incompatible” (Viking, May 2015, xxii + 311pp, including 46pp of acknowledgements, notes, references,and index) (Earlier: post 1; post 2) Summary: Chapter 3: Why Accommodationism Fails This chapter explains why you can’t have your religion … Continue reading →

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Charlie Kirk, and the Simplex Republican Mindset

Posted on Wednesday 10 September 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

The assassination of Charlie Kirk, and reflecting on past political assassinations; Despite RFK Jr., there is no single cause to autism; Braeden Sorbo as another right-wing Republican, like Charlie Kirk, who thinks women shouldn’t have the right to vote; Paul … Continue reading →

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Jerry A. Coyne: FAITH VS. FACT, post 2

Posted on Wednesday 10 September 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Subtitled “Why Science and Religion are Incompatible” (Viking, May 2015, xxii + 311pp, including 46pp of acknowledgements, notes, references,and index) (Earlier: post 1) Summary: Chapter 2: What’s Incompatible? This chapter considers science, religion, their incompatibility, and their conflicts of method, … Continue reading →

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Intellectual Vacuity, False Christian History, and Stories

Posted on Tuesday 9 September 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

The Atlantic, Jonathan Chait, 9 Sept 2025: The Intellectual Vacuity of the National Conservatives, subtitled “The post-liberal American right set out to destroy the guardrails that restrained anti-Semitism, without giving any thought to what might happen next.” [gift link] This … Continue reading →

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Jerry A. Coyne: FAITH VS. FACT, post 1

Posted on Tuesday 9 September 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Subtitled “Why Science and Religion are Incompatible” (Viking, May 2015, xxii + 311pp, including 46pp of acknowledgements, notes, references,and index) For this next book, I’m going to split summary and notes up into multiple posts. And include some general comments … Continue reading →

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Suicide of American Greatness

Posted on Monday 8 September 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Stephen Greenblatt on how a scientific superpower is destroying itself; Scientists demolish Trump’s DOE report; Short items about the search for anti-Christian bias that’s turned up only petty grievances; Jim Wright wonders what Trump or MAGA actually *like* about America; … Continue reading →

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