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There Must Be Some Mistake Here! Dept.Fascinating discussion over at Maverick Philosopher, in which Richard Dawkins (inadvertently!) hearkens back to Thomas Aquinas.

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Excellent interview with Heather MacDonald posted at Razib’s… So in the American Conservative piece I wanted to offer some resistance to the assumption of conservative religious unanimity. I tried to point out that conservatism has no necessary relation to religious belief, and that rational thought, not revelation, is all that is required to arrive at… Continue reading

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New Year’s resolution for 2007. In their own words, as Barbara Forrest makes plain in her excellent summary: The legal defeat of ID is forcing Wedge strategists to seek new markets for their creationism and to work their conservative Christian market more thoroughly. They are peddling ID abroad: DI has added international signatories to “A… Continue reading

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How about a little good news to start the New Year? For now, it’s worth popping that leftover bottle of champagne. Somalia’s homegrown fanatics and their al Qaeda allies are on the run; the Ethiopian military is hunting down wanted terrorists (including several implicated in the bombing of our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania), and… Continue reading