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Meyer, Metaxas at Socrates in the City: Darwin’s Doubt and the Positive Case for ID
Hear the second segment of an engaging discussion between acclaimed author Eric Metaxas and philosopher of science Stephen Meyer at Socrates in the City.
Metaxas, Meyer at Socrates in the City: What Is Intelligent Design?
Hear the first segment of an engaging discussion between acclaimed author Eric Metaxas and Darwin’s Doubt author Stephen Meyer.
Viewing the Eclipse from Salem, Oregon
The rabbi’s wife took the best photo of the morning that I saw, with an iPhone, using two pairs of eclipse glasses as her filter.
Now for a Film about Yoko Ono, Would-Be Censor
There are several good news stories on the recent development in the federal court case in which Yoko Ono seeks to prevent further distribution of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, the Ben Stein film. And then there is this one from ars technica: Notice the way the writer feels obliged to abuse free speech–by misrepresenting intelligent design–even as he defends it. Read more here at Discovery Blog.
Uniting the Sciences and Humanities
There is an interesting new education project under construction at Binghamton University. According to The New York Times: Yet a few scholars of thick dermis and pep-rally vigor believe that the cultural chasm can be bridged and the sciences and the humanities united into a powerful new discipline that would apply the strengths of both mindsets, the quantitative and qualitative, to a wide array of problems. Now, we’re all for combining the sciences with the humanities. Clearly we should be developing well-rounded students. But what I fear is