Tag Archives: Dawkins

The Primitive Belief in Satan and Demons

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Spiritual Battle

I’ve been talking about Satan, demons and other primitive, pre-scientific sorts of things here. The topic has reminded me how odd it is that labeling ancient ideas that way—”primitive,” “outdated,” and the like—tilts us toward counting them as wrong or worthless. Usually that has to do with their having preceded the Dawn of Science, which …

October 20, 2011 – 12:56 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science, Thinking Christianly, Worldviews | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (99)

Of Interest: “There’s Probably No Dawkins”

[From bethinking.org - What is Apologetics? - There's Probably No Dawkins]

October 9, 2011 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Worth Reading | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

Who’s Afraid Of Big Bad Science?

Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum ask in today’s LA Times, Who in the United States will read Dawkins’ new book (or ones like it) and have any sort of epiphany, or change his or her mind? Surely not those who need it most: America’s anti-evolutionists. These religious adherents often view science itself as an assault …

August 11, 2009 – 10:44 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , | Comments (150)

“Richard Dawkins slaps creationists into the primordial soup – Times Online”

Kate Muir, writing in The Times (London) positively fawns over Richard Dawkins, as he is releasing his new three-part series Dawkins on Darwin on British TV. I fairly fell over when I read this—even though I was sitting down: In these barren, thoughtless times, Dawkins gives people something substantial to chew on. [Link: Richard Dawkins …

July 23, 2008 – 9:34 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism, Origins and Science | Tagged | Comments (5)

Oops!

It doesn’t matter what you think about Intelligent Design or ID, and you don’t have to agree with all the comments and commentary here. Still, the punch line on this story really is hilarious: Expelled! – The Panda’s Thumb

March 21, 2008 – 3:10 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Just For Fun, Origins and Science | Tagged , , | Comments Off