Daily Archives: September 3, 2009

The News in Refrain

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Cornelius Hunter on the Implications of DNA Being Already Present in the Earliest Life

Cornelius Hunter is a Fellow of the Discovery Institute, and earned his Ph.D. in Biophysics and Computational Biology from the University of Illinois. At his blog today, I noticed that he offered an argument for life’s probable design that I had not seen … Continue reading

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Who Said This?

Was the following said by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Darwin, or Hitler: Power is in nature the essential measure of right. Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms which cannot help itself. Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson in “Self Reliance” … Continue reading

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The High Rests on the Low

My kids at Griffith Park Observatory, Hollywood, California, about a year ago.

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Quote of the Day

Damon Linker, writing in the New Republic about the New Atheist movement, in an essay titled “Atheism’s Wrong Turn”: To be liberal in the classical sense is to accept intellectual variety–and the social complexity that goes with it–as the ineradicable … Continue reading

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Cosmic Pessimism v. Cosmic Optimism

The universe appears to be lacking in purpose in some ways, but not in others. For example, the Holocaust and the panda’s “thumb” would seem to suggest that we live in a historically contingent universe indifferent and blind to both suffering and … Continue reading

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Just Asking

If you are an atheist, and you think that free will, ultimately, does not exist, but you nevertheless act in your day-to-day life as if free will does in fact exist, aren’t you like someone who doesn’t believe in God, but under … Continue reading

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