Daily Archives: January 4, 2009

Creation v. Evolution Metaphor Watch: Intelligent Design and the Problem of Etiological Narratives

An example of an etiological narrative (a mythical story that purports to account for the existence of something) in a children’s book: The story is a retelling of the fourth day of creation in Genesis 1, and seems to answer the question, … Continue reading

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Former NY Times Foreign Reporter, Chris Hedges, Knew the Hamas Leader Recently Killed, and Explains and Contextualizes the Gaza Situation with Admirable Clarity

Chris Hedges begins his article thus: I often visited Nizar Rayan, who was killed Thursday in a targeted assassination by Israel, at his house in the Jabaliya refugee camp when I was in Gaza. The house is now rubble. It … Continue reading

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See Here CBS’s “Sunday Morning” Segment on Atheism in America (with Julia Sweeney and Christopher Hitchens)

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