Bill Vallicella has some thoughts for a Friday: I suggest that our immanent moral sense must serve as a check on religion with its propensity for excess and fanaticism. We need revelation, but we also need to evaluate whether it be true revelation. With respect to putative divine commands, is it not self-evident that we… Continue reading

Hot damn. It’s that time of year again.

How cool is this?I’m going to be on a panel tomorrow night at the start of this year’s Boskone, talking about the Rise of Modern Science (and why it arose in Europe as opposed to anywhere else), along with Guy Consolmagno and Michael Flynn. I enthused about Bro. Guy’s latest book here. Flynn’s latest book,… Continue reading

Hilarious parody of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, featuring the much hassled current Archibishop Rowan himself: 25 Sayeth the pilgryms to Bishop Rowan, 26 “Father, we do not like howe thynges are goin’. 27 You know we are as Lefte as thee, 28 But of layte have beyn chaunced to see 29 From Edinburgh to London-towne 30… Continue reading

John Derbyshire sums up the problem with Ben Stein (and why I have lost all respect for the guy.)