Sucking Unsound

A New Series Attempts to Unmask False Science

What would an uprising against naturalism look like? In the mid-twentieth century, naturalism was mainly a university arts and culture thing. It did not have quite the chokehold on popular culture that it does now.

But it doesn't seem to have choked everyone. A group of young film pros has produced a series of short art films, funded by the Discovery Institute, on their experience of pushing back against the world of Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson. They set out to find a world of purpose, design, and meaning again.

Approaching the series, I (born in 1950) must keep reminding myself that people under thirty have never known life without the laptop and the cell phone. Most are urbanites who have...