Great stuff. Tall order to handle Christopher Hitchens, but Douglas Wilson does it: You write like a witty but acerbic tenth-century archbishop with a bad case of the gout. But this is truly an odd thing to do if "morality" is a simple derivative of evolution. Are you filled with fierce indignation that the […]
On my way out of town before the Christmas break, I exchanged several emails with friend of mine about the Pennsylvania court case on teaching intelligent design in public schools. He and I have previously debated which has a more corrosive effect on young children, exposure to explicit depictions of violence or explicit […]
Gerald Schroeder appeared for two fascinating hours on the Dennis Prager Show a few days ago (I’m always a bit late blogging about radio stuff because I time-shift most of my listening with RadioTime).
Schroeder is a nuclear physicist, formerly a professor at MIT, now living in Israel. He reconciles modern scientific understanding with […]
I received this evolutionist “Quote of the Week†in my inbox this morning:
“Human evolution, of course, is responsible for our very long period of childhood, during much of which we are almost completely dependent on our parents. As Ashley Montagu first pointed out decades ago, evolution encouraged the development of larger and […]
Some people value dissent. Some people don’t. Via The Corner comes this NPR piece on what the Smithsonian Institution and the National Center for Science Education did to Richard Sternberg, a staff scientist at the National Institutes of Health. He dared to publish an article on intelligent design theory in a journal […]
Folks at The Corner on NRO have had some interesting exchanges about intelligent design (”ID”) theory. I love John Derbyshire. He often writes exactly what I’m thinking better than I could have myself, but here he is way off. In this particularly silly post, he perpetuates the false dichotomy between God and science, which is […]
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