A colleague of mine sent me the following bait in an email: evolution = sciencecreation = philosophy Why is this so hard for people to understand? Fine, teach intelligent design, but do it in a philosophy class I can make sure my kids don’t take!!...
With the news today that President Bush supports teaching Intelligent Design along side Evolution, the origin of life wars will be stoked even hotter. One of the more recent things I have heard was that scientists were “close” to creating a living organism from basic...
One of the hardest things for me to do as a Christian husband is to love my wife “as Christ loved the Church.” It is a difficult thing to love someone else that sacrificially, but not an impossible thing. Which begs the question: if evolution...
Often times in debates and discourse over hotly divided issues the oft-used, seldom supported slippery slope argument rears its head. It is common knowledge to every one on the left that the right is the home of the slippery slope. I have even been known...
The Christian Science Monitor wades into the evolution v. creation debate with a story focused on the classroom. High school science teachers are finding it more difficult to teach evolution without their students asking questions. This is a crisis according to many science teachers and...
Over at The Philosophy of Biology, a pro-evolution site, they are discussing the new rallying cry of the creationist camp, "Teach the controversy." There are some good links in the string of comments that those of us who are interested in understanding and arguing this...
Evolution is under attack again in Kansas. Many liberals are alarmed that the religious right are now trying to bring creationism back into the schools. They characterize the pro "Intelligent Design" (ID) folks as religious rubes with no respect for science. But this is not...
