Original Article Bush Remarks On Intelligent Design Theory Fuel Debate, read a front-page headline on Wednesdays Washington Post. President Bushs hum-drum comment Youre asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, and the answer is yes is treated by the Post as a singular event, an outlandish aside worthy of front-page scrutiny and Read More ›
Animal-rights and animal-liberation advocacy has, over the years, become a radical and subversive enterprise. To see this phenomenon at work, one need look no further than the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the movement’s leading advocacy group. PETA’s latest campaign blitz, the “Animal Liberation Project” (ALP), is a case in point, blending moral relativism with extremist rhetoric.
It comes on the heels of PETA’s pro-vegetarian “Holocaust on Your Plate” campaign, which claimed that the worst crimes of the Shoah were morally equivalent to eating meat and wearing leather; that one set off a firestorm of criticism and condemnation from Jewish groups and the media. It took two years, but PETA leader Ingrid Newkirk finally issued a non-apology apology for the indefensible comparison.
But, of course, defend she did; PETA hadn’t changed its mind about the campaign’s essential message. Enter ALP, which again asserts a moral equivalency between using animals and some of history’s worst crimes. ALP’s overarching theme is: “We are all animals.” While this is biologically true, PETA isn’t merely stating a scientific fact. Rather, by the statement PETA means that humans and animals are moral equals. Hence, everything we do with and to animals should be judged morally as if the same things were being done to people.
Read More ›For the past week, unnoticed by much of the American media, South Koreans have been battling in the port city of Inchon over an important American icon in East Asia — General Douglas MacArthur. Inchon is the site of MacArthur’s greatest military masterpiece — a daring amphibious landing in 1950 that decisively turned the tide of the Korean War and Read More ›
Steve Vincent, whom we have long admired, was killed by terrorists yesterday in Basra, Iraq. Bruce Chapman’s Wall Street Journal book review of Vincent’s “In the Red Zone” is cited at the end of the following story from Reuters. Steven Vincent, U.S. art critic who went to war 03 Aug 2005 18:03:38 GMT, Source: Reuters NEW YORK, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Read More ›
Join The Free Speech on Evolution Campaign. Scientists, teachers, and students are under attack for questioning evolution – click here to help us help them. In a discussion with reporters on Monday, President George W. Bush supported local control on how evolution is taught but also expressed support for exposing students to different views about evolution. “I think that part of Read More ›
Host: In the United State there are currently 20 states involved in some kind of dispute over the teaching in schools of Darwinian evolution. Why? Local lobbyists, mostly Christians, want it replaced by a sort of creationism called Intelligent Design. In a moment we will get the views of Sir David Attenborough, but first our science correspondent Paul Abgosh (Ph?) Read More ›
Seattle — On Tuesday, August 2, the Kansas Science Standards Writing Committee will meet to consider a draft “Response” to the current working draft of the Kansas Science Standards. The “Response” was apparently prepared by Writing Committee Co-Chair Prof. Steve Case, a long-time activist with Darwin-only lobbying group, Kansas Citizens for Science. “Unfortunately, the proposed ‘Response’ is mostly misinformation and red Read More ›
Despite its early potential, evolutionary developmental biology — evo devo for short — has yet to make good on its promise. In his review of Endless Forms Most Beautiful Sean Carroll’s new book on evo devo, Michael Ruse faults intelligent design (ID) for harping on evolution’s unsolved problems. Moreover, Carroll as well as Ruse suggest that evo devo has now resolved one of the Read More ›
This article, published by The American Spectator, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow John West: John West of the Discovery Institute has reported the ongoing harassment of scientists who dissent from Darwinism. He writes that at “the Smithsonian Institution, biologist Richard Sternberg, the former editor of a respected biology journal, says he faced discrimination and retaliation after accepting for publication a Read More ›