Category Archives: debate

Priorities

Here’s an interesting piece from the Guardian by Salman Hameed. He’s arguing that the Islamic world will be the next front in the battle over evolution, and discusses how scientists should respond to the “rising challenge of creationism” among Muslims: … Continue reading

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Heliocentrism Dethroned!

Given that their church is fairly sensible on evolution, I guess Catholics have to compensate somehow.

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Ilana Counterblogs

Ilana Mercer counterblogs (read down a bit) to my post on “Theology Outside the Tribe.” To her points: Yes, indeed, Islamic theology is interesting to a lot of people, as the excellent sales of Robert Spencer’s books show. That is … Continue reading

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Theology Outside the Tribe

The ravishing and brilliant Ilana Mercer has a column on input from Judaism to economic principles. In line with its efforts to educate about Judaism’s philosophical affinity with the free market, the Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies has inaugurated the … Continue reading

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End of Science

My cosmology post of earlier today brought in the inevitable end-of-science proponent.  Got that covered.

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On debates to have….

In response to comments, I will state beforehand that I won’t be discussing the existence of God or Creationism much.  Evolution is true.  I would just as rather discuss the validity of Newtonianism, Astrology, the molecule or phlogistan.  In other … Continue reading

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Settling In

Someone has asked me why I am contributing under a pen-name, since the first thing I did was to tell the whole world who I am. Heck, I don’t know.  I thought it would be neat to have a pen-name.  … Continue reading

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Dinesh Does Cosmology

Dinesh D’Souza has discovered the Anthropic Principle, after reading an article in Discover magazine. It’s nothing we haven’t seen before, just more God-of-the-gaps:  “Here’s something we’re having real trouble understanding. Must be the hand of God!” Dinesh does not follow … Continue reading

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Corner Feedback

Some reaction to the new site after I posted a link from NRO’s blog The Corner: Reader A: Mr Derbyshire — many thanks for helping provide an outlet for secular conservative views. I think you’ll find there are quite a few … Continue reading

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Secular Right vs. not-so-Secular Right

To Believe in God or Not? Volume n in the Mac Donald vs. Novak debates.

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