Category: Canada
Making “Darwin himself chuckle”
| September 22, 2011 | Posted by News under Canada, Culture, Darwinism, News |
Oddly, most Canadian kids don’t grow up to believe Darwinism, but rather to recognize that Darwinism is part of the belief system that the elite enforce. That is a different matter, and it is the usual fate of enforced beliefs: more
Remember Dennis Venema? He’s that born again Darwinist at Canada’s Trinity Western University, and … he’s wanted for questioning
| September 21, 2011 | Posted by News under Canada, Christian Darwinism, News |
Well now, Discovery Institute has – in the person of fellow David Klinghoffer – challenged him to explain: more
Paul Nelson to speak in Toronto, Saturday November 5, 2011
| September 19, 2011 | Posted by News under Canada, Education, Intelligent Design, News |
Ably assisting him will be butterflies. more
Intellectual freedom: Because it is real, it has enemies
| September 6, 2011 | Posted by News under Canada, Intellectual freedom, News |
There is an enemy occupation, but there is still a free world. more
The criminal hyperlink, and how it affects you
| September 1, 2011 | Posted by O'Leary under Canada, Culture, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, News |
Can governments succeed in getting control of the Internet? Probably not, ultimately. But they can target you in an inquisition from Hell while they slowly fail. An inquisition on any subject that a pressure group has made important. more
Eugenics and the Firewall: An interview with Jane Harris Zsovan, Part III
| May 24, 2011 | Posted by O'Leary under Canada, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design |
Denyse: First, step with us a moment into Scientific American’s past (a past it repudiates) where, in 1911, it enthusiastically editorialized about “The Science of Breeding Better Men.” How about this for an opening line: “ADA JUKE is known to anthropologists as the ‘mother of criminals.’” Well, how’s that for coming straight to the point?… more
Just shut up and pay, losers … Part 3059 (yes, this is a new one)
| February 13, 2011 | Posted by O'Leary under Canada, Intelligent Design |
Canada’s National Post tears into the Canadian Association of University Teachers’ “investigations” of Christian universities: The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) — which describes itself as Canada’s “national voice for academic staff” — says it has investigated four small Christian colleges and universities in the past 18 months because it wants parents to know… more
Yanks: Come on in, the water’s fine …
| February 8, 2011 | Posted by O'Leary under Atheism, Canada |
In “Professors group accused of anti-religious bullying”, Charles Lewis reports (National Post, Feb. 8, 2011) on the underbelly of the Canadian Union of University Teachers: A group of academics has launched a campaign defending Canadian Christian universities against what it terms anti-religious bullying by the country’s leading university teachers’ federation.”What we have here is an… more
Women science bloggers: Some thoughts
| January 22, 2011 | Posted by O'Leary under Canada, Culture, Darwinism |
Robin Lloyd explains in “Woman science bloggers discuss pros and cons of online exposure” (Jan 18, 2011), Blogging and other Web activities have allowed members of many marginalized communities to open previously locked media doors. But women still rely more on back channels and ask for less help than men do in the digital realm.… more
Coffee!! Darwin wrong? No! It couldn’t be! HuffPo to the rescue
| September 1, 2010 | Posted by O'Leary under Canada, Darwinism |
Alarmed at a science paper that questions Darwin, Steve Newton advises us at the Huffington Post that Darwin was not wrong when he argued that competition was the driving force of evolution. The article suggested that large-scale changes in ecology played a bigger role. Of course, they did. … When an ice sheet covered much… more
Here’s Jewish Canadian lawyer Ezra Levant on the flop of the recent antiChristian also anti-ID book
| June 19, 2010 | Posted by O'Leary under Canada |
Apparently, Canadian Marci McDonald’s Random House anti-Christian book is a commercial flop. Go here, here, and here for intelligent-design related “marcis” = obvious errors such as claiming that proud Presbyterian Phillip Johnson, author of Darwin on Trial , had become a Catholic. At some point, truth needs evidence, not conspiracy thinking. It’s about time that… more