2022

A recent comment to one of the posts on Uncommon Descent states that nothing like an atheistic censorship committee exists to unfairly block out scientific arguments for ID. The comment maintains that ID simply needs to produce a sufficiently compelling argument in order to earn “a seat at the table.” Let’s run with this a little. Imagine a school cafeteria, with one of those big, long tables where all the popular kids sit for lunch. If you didn’t belong to that crowd, you probably can immediately feel the unspoken barriers that make your attempt to sit at the table most unwelcome. Now, in the scientific community, the rules are not unspoken. As stated in my book, Canceled Science: What Some Read More ›

Notoriously, on the evening of October 30, 1938, many people missed the opening remarks for Orson Welles’ radio dramatisation of H G Wells’ War of the Worlds. As History dot com recounts: Millions of Americans, as they were every night, huddled around their radios, but relatively few of them were listening to CBS when it was announced that Welles and his fellow cast members were presenting an original dramatization of the 1898 H.G. Wells science-fiction novel “The War of the Worlds.” Instead, most of the country was tuned in to NBC’s popular “Chase and Sanborn Hour,” which featured ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his dummy, Charlie McCarthy . . . . disoriented listeners who stumbled onto the “Mercury Theatre on the Read More ›