Lauren Sandler’s new provocative book Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement is out in a bookstore near you (released September 7, 2006). I will comment some more on it since an entire chapter was devoted to Intelligent Design (entitled “Evolutionary Wars”) and quite a bit of that chapter was written about me. Her book Read More…
Culture
ID culture a part of Starbuck’s coffee culture?
In response to Bill’s earlier thread Who said evolution wasn’t progressive, to say nothing of warm and fuzzy?, Rob Crowther posted a followup here: Beasts in the Forest. Crowther points out Discovery Institute CSC Fellow Wesley Smith has a quote appearing on Starbuck’s coffee cups.
Darwinists need to recruit Paris Hilton to sell their product . . .
Right now this is how Darwinists are selling their product: Watch this video: http://www.accolo.com/Accolo-Rethink-Recruiting.wmv This is how they need to sell their product: Go here: http://www.spicyparis.com/index.html. Here’s what recruiting the right people means to an ad campaign (which is what Darwinism has become):
Thinkquote from C. S. Lewis
I take a very low view of “climates of opinion.” In his own subject every man knows that all discoveries are made and all errors corrected by those who ignore the “clmate of opinion.” –C. S. Lewis, THE PROBLEM OF PAIN
Darwin’s “bright idea” — A new website and society for promoting Darwinism?
You may recall that summer of 2003 Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett proposed a new “happy” designation for themselves as atheists — a term that does for atheism what “gay” does for homosexuality (the comparison is theirs!). They decided on the word “bright.” For Dawkins’s and Dennett’s opeds, where they originally made this proposal, go Read More…
Crocker, Sisson, Cordova, Chenette: TV special on ID in Higher Education
Feature: The Intelligent Design Controversy in Higher Education This week on The Coral Ridge Hour we look at Intelligent Design, a movement which is gaining adherents at colleges and universities around the world. But what about professors who dare to challenge evolution by presenting alternatives to students? As you are about to see, the consequences Read More…
The Anti-Wedge
Dear Members of SSE [Society for the Study of Evolution], The Joint Council of SSE, ASN and SSB has recently appointed a committee to deal with the issues of creationism and intelligent design to the teaching and funding of evolutionary biology in the U.S. The goals of the committee are spelled out in a document Read More…
Youth — the key to unseating Darwinian materialism
Check out this forthcoming book, in which I understand that our very own Sal Cordova is featured. Note especially Sam Harris’s blurb — with people like Harris expressing such foreboding, one has to wonder how close we are to seeing the Darwinian house of cards collapse under the weight of its self-delusion. Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Read More…