Terry Scambray
Why Darwinism can be taught in schools but not ID
A Review of Steve Meyer’s The Return of the God Hypothesis
How Darwinism wound its way into various schemes for improving American society
Darwin Devolves: Darwinists see evolution as bottom up; Michael Behe sees it as top down
Terry Scambray: A review of Mike Flannery’s book, Nature’s Prophet, on Alfred Russel Wallace
The eugenicists were mostly the Woke people of their day
Rodney Stark: A social scientist who begged to differ with the “distinguished bigots” on faith and science
Social scientist Rodney Stark offers an alternative to the Sunday magazine truisms about the relationship between Christianity and science: The basis for much of the antipathy toward Christianity is the image of the medieval Catholic Church fostered by “distinguished bigots,” as Stark calls Edward Gibbon and Voltaire among other Enlightenment notables. Stark, relying on primary source historians like the renowned Marc Bloch, shows, on the contrary, that medieval Catholicism was the breeding ground for modernity. Most, if not all, ancient societies believed in fate. However, Yahweh gave humans the wondrous and terrifying attribute of free will, freedom. Individual freedom in the West then merged with the legacy of Athenian democracy and the Roman republican tradition to form “the new democratic Read More ›