Wiley has a superb rendition of How Intelligent Design works…

Great. Just great. In a further contribution to the ever widening fragmentation of our culture, a group of morons conservatives has decided that we have to have our own online encyclopedia. Predictably, the site is coming in for abuse. Deserved abuse, I would add.

Whatever happened to Leo Baeck? In his introduction to Leo Baeck’s (out of print) God and Man in Judaism, Leonard G. Montefiore wrote, “Baeck is never easy reading.” I don’t know why he said this. If he meant that Baeck is not easy to understand, he is wrong, for I understood him clearly when I… Continue reading

Orr gives it right back to Dennett. 2) Dennett asks me to identify some allegedly serious thinkers on religion. I named two in my review but am happy to name them again: William James and Ludwig Wittgenstein. I chose these two as both wrote after Darwin and had training in science or engineering; both were,… Continue reading

William F. Buckley, that grizzled old lion of conservatism, opens an eye to consider Darwin once more, waves a paw…and repeats the obvious. Thereby further trivializing it. (sigh)