March 23rd, 2011

Today's Worst Partisan Political Columnist Blindness, Today! (Reason Magazine - Hit and Run)

Let's read Charles P. Pierce--writing on politics since 1976, author of _ Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free--_telling us what's what in his article in the May issue of _Esquire_, shall we? (Issues that gripe his gut in that book? Creationism and the Terri Schiavo matter, both far more signs of contempt for "those sorts of people" than well-honed intelligence.) The article is uninterestingly titled "Into the Wilderness," and its point is that the Republican Party has become so insane and dangerous it is the duty of the American people to do everything they can to defeat them politically on every level. This is a thesis I have some sympathy with, minus considering the likely alternatives. But how does this veteran tough-minded political thinker make his case, that the GOP is so dangerous that 100 percent Democratic Party control of America is a moral and political necessity? He starts off with some sort-of high-middlebrow mockery of those shit-for- brains Republicans, in the person of Rick Santorum, speaking, one is lead to believe, for the Party whose presidential nomination he failed to win and for which he holds no office: > At one point, ...

Reason Magazine - Hit and Run


Questioning Islam : 4/30 : ‘Divine creation?’


Evolution and/or Creation: An Islamic Perspective


Evolution and/or Creation: An Islamic Perspective


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In “”Creation AND/OR Evolution: An Islamic Perspective”", T.O. Shanavas describes an Islamic theory of creation that is not incompatible with evolution. He accomplishes this by weaving together insights from modern science, the Qur’an, and pre-Renaissance Muslim history. He proposes that evolution is an intelligent design created by a higher power to manifest His omniscience, supremacy, and grace …

Evolution


Evolution


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Examining the evolution debate from different aspects, this study points out the divergent uses of evolution and it posits a scientific argument against the theory of evolution, and includes rational explanations derived from the Islamic understanding of creation….

Atlas Of Creation (Volume-3)


Atlas Of Creation (Volume-3)


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The fossil record is perhaps the most important evidence that demolishes the theory of evolution’s claims. Fossils reveal that life forms on Earth have never undergone even the slightest change and have never developed into one another. Examining the fossil record, we see that living things are exactly the same today as they were hundreds of millions of years ago-in other words, that they never un…


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