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12 May 2008

From Darwin to Delegated Fascism

DLH

Richard Pearcey traces how a Darwinian worldview leads to “delegated fascism”. These are critical issues in debating the societal CONSEQUENCES of Evolution vs Intelligent Design, (as distinct from the scientific origin theories themselves.) ———————————
Abortofascism and Free-Market Homicide
By Rick Pearcey, Pro-Existance, May 12, 2008
In a column titled “Atheism and Child Murder,” Dinesh D’Souza comments on his recent […]

10 May 2008

The Rebelution - Do Hard Things

DLH

Alex Harris and Brett Harris are challenging the status quo with: Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations, garnering a Foreward by Chuck Norris, 2008, Multnomah Books ISBN-10: 1601421125. What might the prospects be for a hard cover manifesto challenging teenagers to work hard by two 18 year olds? Astonishingly it […]

10 May 2008

Food for Thought

DaveScot

9 May 2008

DaveScot Responds to BarryA

DaveScot

Barry poses the debate topic:
A soldier amuses himself by ripping a baby from his mother’s arms and tossing it in the air and catching it on a bayonet.
Resolved, it is self-evident that the soldier’s action is wrong in all places and at all times.
However, Barry restricts the range of answers by not allowing anyone to […]

9 May 2008

Nancy Pearcey at Beyond Expelled

DLH

At the Beyond Expelled worldview conference, Nancy Pearcey explored the impact of evolution vs ID. She describes skeptic Michael Shermer’s conversion to evolution & Scarlett Johansson’s acting on belief in evolution.
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The intelligent design of life
Nancy Pearcey tells crowd that Darwinism has evolved into more than just a theory (with VIDEO)
Rachel Kyler, Thursday May 8th, 2008
NICEVILLE […]

7 May 2008

The Theistic Necessity in the Acquisition of Knowledge

Joel Borofsky

This is cross posted from my own site, The Christian Watershed. To read the rest, please follow the link at the bottom. 
Let me preface this by saying that even though I show how Christianity fits the criteria for warrant, I believe any theistic belief can fit this criteria. In other words, Christianity does not […]

7 May 2008

Ben Stein’s Dangerous Idea

DLH

Robert Meyer provides thought provoking insight into the major issues surrounding Expelled.
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Ben Stein’s Dangerous Idea
Robert Meyer, May 6, 2008, New Media Alliance - Robert E. Meyer
Ben Stein has a dangerous idea. His idea is that professors and teachers who express skepticism about Darwinism are likely to find themselves not granted tenure, castigated and ridiculed, and […]

6 May 2008

David Sedley’s Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity

Paul Nelson

Another fascinating book I’m finding hard to put down is David Sedley’s masterful treatment of ancient Greek debates about intelligent design, Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity (University of California Press, 2008). What Sedley means by “creationism” is not the Henry Morris / ICR / […]

29 April 2008

Derbyshire reviews (and seems to have read) Berlinski

William Dembski

Derbyshire continues to embarrass himself — it’s as though on the topic of ID and God his emotions take over and he can’t think straight. I’ll spare you his review and simply quote Berlinski’s response, which skillfully shuts him down with very few words:
[From] David Berlinski:
1 If I remark that no sane man would […]

22 April 2008

Invitations to Hitler Connections

DaveScot

One of the worst things about one side making connections to Hitler is it invites return fire of the same kind. This should be filed under the category “People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones”.
How many of you knew that beloved evangelical Christian minister Jerry Falwell shared Adolf Hitler’s views about the […]

21 April 2008

Darwinian Nobility

DaveScot

Please note this is categorized in off-topic philosophy.
Does Darwinian Nobility, capitalized no less, sound like a contradiction in terms? Not really. In the Descent of Man, Darwin talks about the noble nature of man like it was a tangible thing.
“Nor could we check our sympathy, even at the urging of hard reason, […]

16 April 2008

Darwin and the Nazis

DLH

Richard Weikart summarizes his devastating research into the Darwinian foundations of Nazis - and the continuation of those themes by modern evolutionists.
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Darwin and the Nazis
By Richard Weikart Published 4/16/2008 12:07:03 AM American Spectator

Richard Dawkins, PZ Myers, and some other Darwinists are horrified that the forthcoming documentary, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, will […]

13 April 2008

Repeat after me: “this has nothing to do with my views on religion”

William Dembski

[[This blast from the past was originally published here at UD 25oct06. With EXPELLED coming out so soon and given Dawkins’s prominent role in it, I thought it worth moving to the top of the stack (blogs have the data structure of a push-down stack). –WmAD]]
Last night Richard Dawkins did a reading from his new […]

2 April 2008

ID and Catholic theology

Lord Ickenham

Father Michal Heller, 72, a Polish priest-cosmologist and a onetime associate of Archbishop Karol Wojtyla, the future pope, was named March 12 as the winner of the Templeton Prize.
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0801398.htm
In this recent interview came a critique of the intelligent design position as bad theology, akin to the Manichean heresy. Fr. Heller puts forth […]

27 March 2008

Fitna vs Expelled - Is Islamofascism similar to Darwinian fascism?

DLH

Are there parallels between the effects of “Big Science” Darwinism severe job discrimination against non-Darwinists as shown in Expelled, and recent terrorism by Jihadists?
The very controversial film Fitna offers a view on radical Islam and the Qur’an by by Dutch politician Geert Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV). It was just released […]