Category Archives: Science & Faith

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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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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Against Evolution

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via the Independent: A prominent British imam has been forced to retract his claims that Islam is compatible with Darwin’s theory of evolution after receiving death threats from fundamentalists. Dr Usama Hasan, a physics lecturer at Middlesex University and a … Continue reading →

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Teachers?

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via the New York Times: Teaching creationism in public schools has consistently been ruled unconstitutional in federal courts, but according to a national survey of more than 900 public high school biology teachers, it continues to flourish in the nation’s … Continue reading →

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Response to Razib

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Ibn Sina

Preface by Razib: My friend Aziz Poonawalla responded to my previous post with a long missive, which you can read below. To the left is a photo of the both of us in late 2004 when I visited him in … Continue reading →

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