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
Why is it so many self-described Christians are complete chowder-skulls about science? PZ Myers has a perfect example here. And he’s right to make a big case of it. The credulity of many Christians when it comes to the hogwash put out by PR outfits like the Discovery Institute, is one of the most depressing… Continue reading
Clive James gives a great reassessment of Sartre, whom Paul Johnson once headlined as “a little ball of fur and ink.”
David Warren asks, deep down, do we even want to stop Iran?