Since his nomination by President Bush, there has been little doubt that Samuel Alito would be confirmed as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Democrats have pitched their fits, and swooned over their apocalytic fears that Alito’s vote will result in the curtailing of some of their pet causes. But thanks to rational [...]
The results of the recent Palestinian elections have sent shock waves around the world. Firm resolve out of Washington and Israel not to deal with Hamas unless they disavow terrorism is small comfort. Shock waves out of Palestine? Most of us are still choking and sputtering from sixty years, no millenia of [...]
As usual there is much to comment on in the stream of constant information pouring forth from multitudinous outlets whether we choose them or not. We are constantly exposed to images and information delightful, distressing, and sometimes depraved. Whether we choose them or not.
And so it is in the small and picturesque [...]
You will recall that I predicted an early demise for NBC’s Book of Daniel. The controversy surrounding this pathetic midseason replacement program was, in my estimation, a tempest in a teapot. A game of cheap publicity. “Let’s see how loud we can make the religious right scream and get some free exposure.” [...]
The news that January 24 is the worst day of the year didn’t exactly surprise anyone least of all me. I’ve been feeling the slide since about January 7. I was glad to have the holidays over, the photos processed, the memories packed away, and a new year to plan, and hopefully [...]
I am an admirer of Orson Scott Card, author of the famously popular science fiction novel
Ender’s Game and other wonderful books. He also write’s columns for various website’s and other media and I am pleased to find that he has written a column about Intelligent Design. I offer the following quote link [...]
To anyone with half the objectivity that scientists ritually claim, this Evolution/ID question is obviously a theological war – religion against religion, belief system against belief system, angels or bones or fossils on the head of a pin. But for the atheistic scientific evolutionists to say so, to admit the blatantly obvious, is to lose [...]
Whatever their views of god and religion, scientists should be ashamed and appalled at what is being done in their name in the courts, particularly this one. Can we hear from them?
For example, does the National Science Foundation have a group of adults they could send as a committee to defend its interests and [...]
The following is Part One of a three part commentary on the judge’s decision in the Dover Pennsylvania Intelligent Design case. We welcome our new contributor, kenth.
PART ONE: THE LAUGHING STOCK
This decision is one of the seven wonders of the modern legal world. It is riddled with questionable metaphysical and legal statements. This [...]