Since we’re on the subject…I wonder if the Discovery Institute actually pays William Dembski to spend his working time this way….

There comes a point where words simply fail. You read the press releases this so-called Institute puts out…and after a while you really begin to wonder just how much utter contempt they must have for the Christians they claim to be serving. Josh Rosenau sums up the latest kool-aid from the DI.

Well, here I am. Your Political Profile: Overall: 65% Conservative, 35% Liberal Social Issues: 100% Conservative, 0% Liberal Personal Responsibility: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal Fiscal Issues: 75% Conservative, 25% Liberal Ethics: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal Defense and Crime: 75% Conservative, 25% Liberal How Liberal Or Conservative Are You? (Should I duck?)

Discontinuing the Environs feature today.(In the more than four years since I made these audio files available, I think I got one ‘thank you’ and one donation from the thousands of people who acccessed them. Not that I’m being grouchy or anything…)

Just some of the reasons why I admire Tom Stoppard. Stoppard strikes me as an inveterately bookish man, one more passionately taken up with the life of the mind than with his aversion to being mistaken for a Serious Issues kind of playwright would indicate. Many years ago, in an article in The Sunday Times… Continue reading