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Natural Selection, Irreducible Complexity, And The Bacterial Flagellum: A Contrarian Approach To The Intelligent Design Debate, David Crump
David Crump
The subject is one about which many commentators have drawn battle lines, but this article is different. Even though the author concludes that natural selection is supported by overwhelming evidence, he maintains that teaching theories of irreducible complexity in public schools would be appropriate and desirable. Doing so would serve several secular purposes that would satisfy the first requirement of the Lemon test. First, irreducible complexity, which some proponents offer in support of theories of intelligent design, can be defended as scientific under some definitions of science, although not under others, and it therefore provides an ideal vehicle to address …
The Social Psychology Of Evil: Can The Law Prevent Groups From Making Good People Go Bad?, David Crump
The Social Psychology Of Evil: Can The Law Prevent Groups From Making Good People Go Bad?, David Crump
David Crump
In the year 2000, widespread official perjury by members of the Los Angeles Police Department led to investigations of nearly seventy officers and tainted hundreds of criminal convictions. A few years earlier, managers at Enron Corporation had tolerated and committed pervasive acts of fraud that lost billions of dollars for shareholders. And a few years later, jailers at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq photographed each other abusing detainees in ways that subjected themselves to prosecution and the United States to severe loss of international credibility. In each instance, citizens reading their newspapers must have wondered, “How could these things happen?” …