‘I found a dimpled spider, fat and white…’
Year: 2010
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Barbara Forrest on the Wedge at Work
How ID creationism is wedging its way into the cultural and academic mainstream.
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Confessions of a Lonely Atheist
‘Among the more irritating consequences of our flagrantly religious society is the special dispensation that mainstream religions receive.’
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Tracy Morton and Kay Wilkinson v Vardy
Vardy schools accord equal importance to both creationism and theories of evolution.
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Behe’s Empty Box
Reviews and Criticisms of Michael Behe’s book: Darwin’s Black Box:
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Behe and Intelligent Design
Irreducible complexity is a term invented by Behe. It is a myth: there is no irreducible complexity in living organisms.
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Behe and Intelligent Design
Irreducible complexity is a term invented by Behe. It is a myth: there is no irreducible complexity in living organisms.
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Nigerian State Segregates Travel
‘You have no excuse to carry a woman who is neither your wife nor your mother on a motorcycle.’
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Kenan Malik’s Debate with Steve Fuller
If there are two cultures involved in the Sokal affair they are shoddy scholarship on the one side and an attempt at rational thought on the other.
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So where are these powerful arguments?
Alister McGrath says Richard Dawkins is a crude religious propagandist
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The Pope is also a head of state, and that’s bad
The Vatican’s fictive statehood allows it to promote its retrograde gender values in multilateral forums as well
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Mediawatchwatch interviews Stephen Green of ‘Christian Voice’
Other writings are unashamed myth, but not the Bible.
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Natural History on ‘Intelligent Design’
Articles by Forrest, Scott, Miller, Pennock, Behe, Dembski, more.
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Scott McLemee does a close reading of ‘Battlefield Earth’
Terl’s responsibilities include blackmailing fellow Psychlo Forest Whitaker and laughing at his own jokes.
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The great Kabbalah con
An organisation that charges £860 for dinner, ‘healing’ water and some books in Aramaic
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Company recalls ‘offensive’ sandals
Laceys footwear, in London, made the decision after it received complaints from ‘the Hindu community.’
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Oregon’s ‘Cultural Competence’ Plan
Many faculty members worried about insertion of undefined political notion ‘cultural competency’ into every aspect of administration, teaching and performance evaluation
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Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen on Juliet Mitchell
There is something mysterious about the way psychoanalysis perpetually raises itself from its ashes.
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How Fabrications Differ from a Lie
‘Did Freud lie?’ is the great question.
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Frederick Crews on ‘Intelligent Design’
Creationism sheds its Dogpatch image and takes a subtler approach.
