Category: Canada
Biophysicist Kirk Durston: Canada’s governor general as a highly visible example of scientism
| November 12, 2017 | Posted by News under Canada, Culture, Naturalism, Origin Of Life |
Kirk Durston here: In a recent speech, former astronaut Julie Payette, now the Governor General of Canada, displayed her unquestioning belief that science alone is worthy of our total trust and mocked those who are “still questioning whether life was a divine intervention or whether it was coming out of a natural process let alone, […]
Astronaut Julie Payette did not KO God in the first round
| November 10, 2017 | Posted by News under Canada, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Naturalism |
But she may have undermined the Liberal political party she obviously sympathizes with. Sorry for all the news from Canada but sometimes a smaller place can be a bellwether. Re “Canadian astronaut turned governor-general trashes all Canadians who doubt that life is a “random process,” Mark Bonokoski at The Toronto Sun: “Imagine if [former Prime […]
Canadian astronaut turned governor-general trashes all Canadians who doubt that life is a “random process”
| November 6, 2017 | Posted by News under Canada, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Origin Of Life, Philosophy, Religion |
From Global News: “And we are still debating and still questioning whether life was a divine intervention or whether it was coming out of a natural process let alone, oh my goodness, a random process.” … Payette was trained as a computer engineer and later became an astronaut and licensed pilot and in 1999 was […]
Green cronyism and pop science
| December 12, 2016 | Posted by News under Canada, Culture, Intelligent Design, News, Science |
Recently, Barry Arrington noted, in Climate Alarmism and Crony Capitalism, a Marriage Made in Hell, As reported in the WSJ. As many of us suspected (knew for a certainty, actually) all along, it has never been about science or the environment. It has always been about money That realization is beginning to seep into the […]
When people do not want to confront intellectual freedom issues
| January 30, 2015 | Posted by News under Canada, Culture, Naturalism |
I have lived all my life in a country where this garbage was unheard of in the 1960s. Most of it would not be heard of in the 1860s or the 1760s.
Off topic: Why Canada is less violent … except sometimes
| October 26, 2014 | Posted by News under Canada, News |
Because we don’t really have a history of violence,
Civil liberties crusader defends Richard Dawkins on … civil liberties
| September 4, 2013 | Posted by News under Canada, Intellectual freedom, News |
Just why Dawkins, who doesn’t apparently believe in free will, thinks the nanny state is a problem, is unclear. But who cares?
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:
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:
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.
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.
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.
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? […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
