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  • I always knew you had at least one puff piece in you...

    ...and I wish it had stayed in you. The movie you should have written about in your piece on Sarah Palin is David Cronenberg's The Dead Zone... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1VHSQV0yn8 Don't think I'm claiming to be what Pastor Ed of Wasilla Assembly of God claims to be - a prophet. One need not have powers of prognostication to know that ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by The Eel on September 9, 2008

  • Well, That's Good News for Dems and Catholics Both

    I did not need to read this article, to take immediate notice when 1) Gov. Casey's Son spoke at the Democratic Convention this year, in contrast to the first Bill Clinton Convention in 1992; and 2) Joe Biden was picked to join this 2008 Ticket with Obama. Both were welcome developments to me, and I have the sensitivities on these pro-Abort ...
    Posted to Faith-Based by MichaelBernard2 on September 1, 2008

  • False demographics

    ''...the endless flame war between scientists and evangelists. The creationists see him as a powerful ally who bolsters their case by mounting a putatively irreligious critique of natural selection. The atheists, meanwhile, can't stand him..'' No, no, no, no. ''Scientist'' and ''atheist'' ARE NOT synonymous, no matter what evangelical atheists ...
    Posted to Science by Dr.Mike on August 21, 2008

  • Why Can’t Dawkins Change People’s Minds?

    I watched the recent Dawkins on Darwin thing on Channel 4 and was unsurprised to find that the schoolchildren he spoke to who had been brought up with the creation story didn’t, on the whole, change their minds about the origins of the human race upon being presented with evidence for ...
    Posted to Faith-Based by jdc325 on August 7, 2008

  • Re: We've directly observed macroevolution

    Thanks for a thoughtful response JGC! You are correct that on the surface evolutionary theory deals with the observations of genetic changes within already existing life on this planet and beyond. But you have to admit that both the 'routine argument' for evolution and Darwin's theories have their founding in a cosmology based upon the idea that ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by smithc on July 23, 2008

  • You're forgetting a few points

    Creationism doesn't deny all evolution, it simply explains the beginnings of a universe far too vast and complicated to have happened from nothing. (considering evolution as the explanation of the beginning denies the very laws of physics) The important point that was left out of this opinionated article is there is a difference between macro ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by smithc on July 22, 2008

  • Re: Ben Stein, fundy nutjob?

    Stein is not the first ''well-respected intellectual'' in the field of law and policy to throw in with the creationist crowd. Remember that no less a luminary than Phillip E. Johnson was instrumental in founding the ID movement. The lesson here: Being brilliant in one field (e.g. law, math) does not qulaify you to do serious work in another ...
    Posted to Science by Damion on May 6, 2008

  • Re: LDS Texas Children

    i'm not mormon. not even close but i hope everyone who values their freedom to worship will take a look around in their own lives and how their own beliefs have been scrutinized and tested. how far off do you all think we are from facing the same fate. this nation is moving from “a land under God” to one that puts believer’s out on the ...
    Posted to Hot Document by cheryl9969 on May 2, 2008

  • What's kookier than an AIDS conspiracy?

    My mother-in-law visited a few weeks ago. She's a sort of subrural born-again conservative white Republican from Kentucky. I love her -- she's family! -- but besides that, I also feel privileged to have such a close window into the mind of someone within her demographic. Yeah, there are a lot of them in this country but, in my entire life, I've ...
    Posted to Trailhead by dknsn on April 28, 2008

  • Dawkins - Intelligent Design?

    Go see Ben Stein's movie where Richard Dawkins himself actually uses the phrase ''Intelligent Design'' in reference to how he thinks the universe began...interesting....
    Posted to Science by stacim on April 19, 2008
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