John Wilkins: This is what I reject about the Dawkins/Moran/PZ aggressive atheism – it takes the most stupid version of religion, argues against it, and then claims to have given reasons for not being religious. At best (and here I concur) they have given reasons not to be stupid theists. But a good argument takes… Continue reading

Only in America. Okay, so last week, I show up at Rod’s and point out, as a I often do, that Intelligent Design is bogus science and that the, er, Institute, which promotes it is, how shall we say, less than intellectually honest. From which, it is inferred by commentators there, that I must be… Continue reading

Tawfik Hamid writes: Politicians and scholars in the West have taken up the chant that Islamic extremism is caused by the Arab-Israeli conflict. This analysis cannot convince any rational person that the Islamist murder of over 150,000 innocent people in Algeria–which happened in the last few decades–or their slaying of hundreds of Buddhists in Thailand,… Continue reading

Scott Carson has a thoughtful (and funny) assessment of Cardinal’s Schönborn’s latest puzzling attempt to further confuse Catholics about the Church’s attitude to science. The editors of First Things are not idiots, either, and yet they seem to fall victim to a kind of ideology of their own at times, especially when it comes to… Continue reading

Rod Dreher: I’m just saying that it’d be smarter for the SMU professors to engage the ID people in a public forum and show the audience why the ID people are wrong. Refusing even to talk to them is not causing any fewer people to believe in ID. If ID is as dangerous as the… Continue reading