All posts tagged "Evolutionary Theory"

Creationist Darek Isaacs said during an online broadcast posted Monday that evolutionary theory excused rape.

My first question upon reading about how non-nutbar home schoolers are having trouble getting decent science books for their kids is this: Why are you giving a single dime to the Christian right? How could you not know that when you buy a science textbook from a "Christian" publisher, it's going to be a diatribe against the theory of evolution?

Did a couple of pioneering obstetricians secretly murder dozens of pregnant women in the name of science? Lindsay makes the compelling case for "Not bloody likely". These kinds of revisionist histories that postulate all sorts of fantastical theories without much evidence are all over the place, with some of the most famous being people who second guess the Jack the Ripper case, or claim Shakespeare didn't write Shakespeare, or that Lizzy Borden was framed. By and large, they are complete bullshit. and most of them are of little concern. But this one gave me pause, for the reason that Lindsay alludes to:

At the airport, I spied the paperback version of the atheist polemic that caused so much grief that I haven't read yet: The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. I'll admit; I get influenced by blurbs, and this book had a gazillion really great ones. And even though I'm a hardline atheist like Dawkins, and I'm in full agreement that the hysteria greeting this book says more about the people getting upset (that they're trying to bully atheists into silence) than about Dawkins, I cracked and bought it. If all these people enjoyed it/were offended by it, then surely I could learn something from it, right?