HT to Ben Witherington: Alistair McGrath’s Critique of Dawkins “The God Delusion” Alistair McGrath is a remarkable person. He has PhDs in Theology and also in Molecular Bio-Physics. He is currently a Professor of public science at Oxford. In this lecture he is critiquing his fellow Oxfordian Richard Dawkins Here […]
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J. Scott Turner comments on why academe ought to allow questions about “design” in nature. A few good quotes: I wonder, for example, what demon had gripped a past president of Cornell University when he singled out intelligent design as a unique threat to academic and civil discourse. Aren’t universities […]
No, not I but someone far better at this sort of thing, Christopher Heard of Higgaion. See The God Delusion, chapter 2, sections 1-3 I will follow Stephen Cook (whose post led me to this review) and point out this prescient quote. I am ready to assume that Dawkins has […]
I have just found Dasutin. Great blog. Check out this story: Astronaut Loses Camera In Space On the most recent STS-116 Discovery mission, while working on the Space Station, an astronaut watches his camera float off into the dark nether regions of space. (Via DASUTIN.COM.)
Sort of. No, really, I couldn’t have said it better myself, so I won’t. Atheists vs. Liberals Heave an egg outside a Pullman window anywhere in the United States today, and you will probably hit an atheist. In fact, I hope you do. There is a new prominence of what […]
My earlier post has generated a long discussion and now my brother has taken on this topic. He has gathered actual sound clips from Dawkins himself. It is an excellent podcast and I encourage anyone interested in this topic to hear what he has to say. Dawkins, God, and the […]
The Chronicle: Daily News Blog: Richard Dawkins Goes Head to Head With Campus Critics of His Attack on Religion What I find so frustrating about Dawkins is not his views but that (1) he insists that science (specifically Darwinianism) proves that God doesn’t exist, as Stephen Gould pointed out science […]
A very interesting survey from the Social Science Research Council (“The survey was conducted and analyzed by two sociologists, Neil Gross of Harvard University and Solon Simmons of George Mason University”) reported by IHE today. Listen to many critics of higher education, and you would think that faith had been […]
Penn State Live This is too strange, but as a father of a daughter it makes me want to hug my daughter more and that’s got to be good. 🙂 Monday, September 11, 2006 Altoona, Pa. — Chemical cues from fathers may be delaying the onset of sexual maturity in […]