Rebuttals and references from the scientific community to any and all of the various creationist claims.
Category: Flashback
Fashionable nonsense has been with us since the time that prehistoric man first transcribed Of Grammatology on to the walls of the Lascaux caves. Here we cast an eye back at some historical highlights.
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The Things We Forgot to Remember
OU/Radio 4 series on which bits of history we remember and which we don’t
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Empty-headed vehemence of a discouraging kind
Greer’s idealization of miserable women – which is to say, her denial of their misery – is worse than naive. It is cruel.
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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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Nurse gang raped for doing her job
She refused to perform illegal abortions, so three men assaulted her
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As Miss World Turns
The war between religious fanaticism and secular modernity is fought over women’s bodies.
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Ann Cryer: Forced marriages must end
Amanda Day talks to Labour MP Ann Cryer about her campaign to win justice for young Asian women.
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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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Hitchens on Hirsi Ali
She has case histories that will freeze your blood. These, however, are in some ways less depressing than the excuses made by qualified liberals for their continuation.
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Kenan Malik on free speech
The impact of censorship is in fact to undermine progressive movements within minority communities.
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BHL Too Fashionable, French Intellectuals Report
Authors motivated by impatience with relentless self-promotion and unquestioning adulation of French media.
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Advertising Standards Authority rules out miracle cure ad
The ASA said Peniel Pentecostal Church had to offer proof at least comparable with that required of makers of washing powder
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The real politics behind bad academic writing
The desire to “question common sense” is merely the self-congratulation of someone whose “sense” is different, but no less “common.”
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Women Against Fundamentalisms
WAF was launched in 1989 to challenge the rise of fundamentalism in all religions.
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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.
