Category Archives: debate

Contagion

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via the Daily Mail: Muslim students, including trainee doctors on one of Britain’s leading medical courses, are walking out of lectures on evolution claiming it conflicts with creationist ideas established in the Koran. Professors at University College London have expressed … Continue reading →

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Hanging On In There

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Stephen Budiansky appears to be channeling the idiocy of Leon Kass (the “suffering is good for you” guru who chaired George W. Bush’s grotesque tax-payer funded “bio-ethics” boondoggle) in the latter part of this attack on Steve Jobs’s attempts to … Continue reading →

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On the Uselessness of Bioethics

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Of all the useless ‘disciplines’ that have come along in recent years one of the more irritating is bioethics (typified perhaps best by the waste of taxpayer dollars that was George W. Bush’s fatuous “Council on Bioethics”). Writing on Reason‘s … Continue reading →

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Did Dawkins Blink?

Posted on October 2, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Writing in the WSJ, Meghan Cox Gurdon reviews Richard Dawkins’s new science book for young folk: …That young people might come to see poetic magic in the scientific method and the natural world is not, however, sufficient for the author … Continue reading →

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The Eternal Appeal of the Apocalyptic (2)

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted earlier on the Corner: And while we’re on the topic of doom-mongering, at least one enormously wealthy, lavishly consuming, aristocratic idler has (reports the Daily Telegraph) a few dark words for the peons. Warning that the human race itself … Continue reading →

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The Eternal Appeal of the Apocalyptic

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Posted earlier on the Corner: It helps sell religions, movies, political agendas: Is there nothing that the prospect of apocalypse cannot do? Via AP: Abel Ferrara made his new film “4:44 Last Day on Earth” to serve as a wake-up … Continue reading →

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Would you Adam and Eve it?

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Here’s Ann Coulter: Amid the hoots at Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry for saying there were “gaps” in the theory of evolution, the strongest evidence for Darwinism presented by these soi-disant rationalists was a 9-year-old boy quoted in The New … Continue reading →

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Obsessed?

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via Andrew Sullivan, comes this rather odd piece by Tony Woodlief. This extract caught my eye: We are god-obsessed because we have lost God or we are running from God or we are hopelessly seeking Him, and maybe all of … Continue reading →

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Shut in by the State

Posted on August 19, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Count me amongst those who are profoundly skeptical about the notion that it is “self-evident” that we come into this world endowed with a large collection of supposedly inalienable “rights”. I do not, for example, believe that there is such … Continue reading →

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Whose Life is it Anyway?

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

There’s been plenty to read on Andrew Sullivan’s blog this week on the question of assisted suicide. Amongst the posts and pieces to which Andrew has linked is this one by the New York Times’s Ross Douthat to which Mother … Continue reading →

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