Michael Shermer seems to be the only one to get it right on Bush’s recent remarks about the controversy surrounding intelligent design: On Monday, August 1, Bush gave an interview at the White House to a group of Texas newspaper reporters in which he said that when he was governor of Texas “I felt like… Continue reading

Wise advice from Lebanon: “To stop a man who wants to oppress you is not a case of you oppressing him.” Anyone on the extreme Right or extreme Left listening? (via Instapundit.com)

I had thought, in my Judaic innocence, that Aquinas had gloriously secured natural causality for the Church once and for all. Leon Wieseltier, in an excellent piece (registration required) on the sudden “occasionalism” of Catholics bewitched by the empty rhetoric of “intelligent design.”

There may be much to appreciate in the work of Edmund Wilson. But I’ve always suspected deep down he was a narrow-minded blowhard. This article in the New Yorker does nothing to dispel that, I’m afraid….

Thought-provoking? The US study, published in Science, took the same theory and applied it to a more everyday example. They used electrodes placed inside the skull to monitor the responses of brain cells in the auditory cortex of two surgical patients as they watched a clip of “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”. Aw,… Continue reading