John Derbyshire Resorts to Straw Man Arguments Against Human Exceptionalism

November 10, 2006

John Derbyshire has responded in The Corner to my First Things blog entry chastizing him for rejecting human exceptionalism along with his faith. He has every right to do so, of course. But he doesn’t have the right to mischaracterize my arguments. He claims I grant humans a special place because we are “chosen and gifted by God.” I never wrote any such thing–ever. My position is entirely secular based. Read my piece and Derbyshire’s disengenuous response and you will see that I am right.

Loss of faith should not also mean the loss of intellectual honesty.