February 2006
Catholic Online
by mikepowerText of talk by Vatican Observatory director on ‘Science Does Not Need God. Or Does It? A Catholic Scientist Looks at Evolution’
Andy at Yellow Swordfish: Go Wicca!
by mikepowerThe fastest growing religion in the US (in terms of percentage) is Wicca - a Neopagan religion that is sometimes referred to as Witchcraft.
SullyWatch on those cartoons
by mikepowerThis was clearly done to bait the European Muslim community. If you take the right, take the responsibility.
Best of Both Worlds
by mikepowerWe're still short of any definitive opinion on the row, not helped by the fact that the debate has descended into chronic whataboutery. But there are a few issues that will be ripe for analysis when things settle down...
January 2006
Richard Dawkins: Beyond belief - The renowned evolutionary biologist tells John Crace why he finds the resurgence of religion so annoying
by mikepowerEven secularists talk about Jewish, Catholic and Muslim children. There's no such thing. Children aren't born with a particular religious gene. What they are is children of Jewish, Catholic and Muslim parents. If you started to talk about monetarist or Ma
December 2005
James Wolcott: Intelligent Design: Opiate of the Dummies
by mikepowerWielding a sword of truth and a surgical scalpel of reason (he's quite ambidextrous), NRO's John Derbyshire pierces the fatty deposits of bad faith in the postures of religious piety by certain conservative eggheads.
Reason magazine -- July 1997
by mikepowerDarwinism is on the way out. At least, that's what Irving Kristol announced to a gathering at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington not long ago.
June 2005
April 2005
John Derbyshire on Pope John Paul II - The Rearguard Pope
by mikepowerThe quarter century of his papacy was a terrible disaster for the Roman Catholic Church.
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