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Reading Wesley Smith: Why the Darwin Debate Matters
By
David Klinghoffer
If the intelligent-design side in the evolution debate doesn’t receive the support you might expect from people who should be allies, that may be because they haven’t grasped why the whole thing matters so urgently. I got an email recently from a journalist whom I’d queried on the subject. “All told, I’m on the ID…
Darwin at the Mountains of Madness: Evolution & the Occult
By
David Klinghoffer
Of all the regrettable cultural forces that Darwinism helped unleash, perhaps the most surprising and seemingly unlikely is its role in sparking the creation of modern occultism. Charles Darwin himself could not have been less interested in the topic. But no attempt to assess the scope of his legacy can properly leave out the muse-like…
The Cowardice of Richard Dawkins
By
David Klinghoffer
I realize my earlier post on Dawkins’s defense of evolution, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, was on the long side so let me crystalize my point briefly here since not one of the Dawkins-defenders in the comments thread there has chosen to respond other than irrelevantly. In his book, atheism evangelist Dawkins argues…
Fraud, Disgrace & Swindle: A Few Thoughts on Richard Dawkins’s “Greatest Show”
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David Klinghoffer
A variety of consumer fraud depends on an advertiser using undefined or vaguely defined terms to mislead the buyer. A food item, for example, might be offered as “organic,” “light,” “natural,” or “Animal Care Certified,” according to a definition known to the seller but never clarified for the purchaser. In his bestselling recent defense of…
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