Tag: war
Living Amid a Pandemic: Wisdom from C.S. Lewis
Remember the admonition of C.S. Lewis: “If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search would never have begun.”
Freeman Dyson: The Passing of an Iconoclastic Physicist
Dyson was careful to take an open-minded approach: not fully endorsing design, yet not rejecting it either.
Richard Weikart on Michael Ruse’s “Compromise” with Christianity
Michael Ruse aims at a surprising conclusion in his new book. Weikart isn’t buying it.
Richard Weikart: Michael Ruse Embraces the Darwinian Religion
Professor Weikart discusses a recent book by philosopher Michael Ruse on Darwinism, Christianity, and war.
Exotic Science and Theology in Rome
This week’s conference in Rome on Darwin and evolution, nominally sponsored by the Gregorian University and Notre Dame “under the High Patronage of the Pontifical Council on Culture,” has a public relations budget to promote some conclusions that would seem to vary from the positions of Pope Benedict. The Council on Culture has little or no funding of its own for such science conferences and has had to accept non-Vatican funding — and the guidance and other strings that go with it. Intelligent design scientists not only are not present, as a consequence, but their views were misrepresented and trashed ahead of time by the conference organizers. Instead, alongside some rather interesting speakers, you will hear a parade of atheists, Read More ›