Tag: Richard Dawkins
How Ignorance Insulates the New Atheists
Intelligent design isn’t an argument for religion but it, or something like it, would have to be true if any traditional faith is to be taken as true. Yet the New Atheists do not seriously contest the evidence that ID offers.
Protecting “Public Intellectual Life”
“Progressives” in science and other fields increasingly deal with serious opponents by belittling them and ruling their arguments out of order.
Butterflies Set to “Mess with Texas” Tonight at Southern Methodist U.
Texas will host its own premiere of the intelligent-design documentary Metamorphosis tonight.
Listening to Butterflies
The metamorphosis of butterflies represents “the magic of reality,” in Richard Dawkins’s wonderful phrase, where actual, not made-up or fictional, biology is so astonishing that its power to move us never goes away.
California Metamorphosis Premiere Stars Live Butterflies
A thousand people responded with long, resounding applause to Illustra’s new film, Metamorphosis, at its California premiere on Saturday. The auditorium was filled and the audience was thrilled, especially at the very end when the stars of the show made a surprise appearance. The classic Plummer Auditorium in Fullerton was the venue for the premiere. Every family who RSVP’d ahead of time got a free DVD of the film. As people arrived, Mark Edward Lewis at the piano played a suite of themes from the Illustra soundtracks he has composed (see interview). Following the credits and some thank-you’s to several in the audience who had worked on the film, Dr. Paul Nelson appeared on stage with Lad Allen to discuss Read More ›