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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
The dark side of religious cultural relativism and the demeaning of knowledge, that is. That this article was written without a trace of irony is most telling. Especially sentences like "there still isn't consensus on just how the apocalypse will come down or who goes to heaven and when."
Slack used a weak notion of argumentum ad populum, by suggesting that it's relevant that an approximately equal number of Americans believe in 'creationism' as accept evolution. All that statistic proves is how bad our science education has really gotten.
Why not try actually reporting on the know-nothings if you're going to talk about them? Like: ask them some non-softball questions and take down their ridiculous charade of false certitudes and credulity.
"Darwin has nothing on the Book of Genesis." Reason obviously has nothing on Mr. Slack's fantasy life. What a sick joke.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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