Bill Pratt | March 20, 2013
Post Author: Bill Pratt In parts 1 and 2, we looked at philosopher David Stove’s claims that Darwinism was coopted by both the National Socialists and the Marxists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, both of whom brought mass murder to a scale the world had never before seen. But what of these [...]
Bill Pratt | March 15, 2013
Post Author: Bill Pratt National Socialism (Nazism) and Marxism are, for the most part, dead and buried as movements. However, it is incumbent on us, the caretakers of the cemetery, to remind everyone of the past so that it won’t be repeated. Perhaps you believe that we are just beating a dead horse by mentioning [...]
Bill Pratt | February 28, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt I have long suspected that it is not. I was listening to another Unbelievable? podcast the other day which featured a debate between ID proponent Michael Behe and ID opponent Keith Fox – both are biochemists. During the discussion Behe talked about the longest running lab experiment to test the effects [...]
Bill Pratt | July 1, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt You may recall that in January of this year, we posted about the California Science Center, a public institution, reneging on the screening of a pro-intelligent design (ID) movie. The Discovery Institute, a pro-ID organization, filed a lawsuit when the Science Center refused to turn over all documents related to the [...]
Bill Pratt | April 5, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt A recent NY Times article linked people who are skeptical about evolution with people who are skeptical about global warming. The author noted that there seems to be a correlation, that if you doubt one, then you likely doubt the other. This really has me thinking about why that is, as [...]
Bill Pratt | February 27, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt If I could count how many times I’ve been told that only ignorant, fundamentalist Christians doubt the truth of Darwinian evolution, I would be a rich man! Alas, the worst nightmare of Darwin defenders occurs when non-Christians, and non-theists at that, write books criticizing Darwin’s ideas. In their new book, What [...]
Bill Pratt | December 26, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Social Darwinism is the theory that persons, societies of people, and races develop and evolve in much the same way that biological organisms evolve due to natural selection. It is frequently described by the phrase, “survival of the fittest,” which was coined by British philosopher Herbert Spencer just a few years [...]
Bill Pratt | December 8, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Quite a bit, it turns out. The leaps in knowledge of cellular biology and genetics over the last 150 years would boggle Charles Darwin’s mind. Some argue that if he were alive today, he would abandon the very theory named after him because of all the contrary evidence that now stands [...]
Bill Pratt | October 27, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt A few months ago, the History Channel trumpeted the missing human link, Ida. Ida is a 47 million year old fossil that was claimed to be a human ancestor. At the time, I wrote a blog post shaming the scientific community for making sensationalistic claims like this. The evidence from the [...]
Bill Pratt | September 17, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt In this 4 minute video clip, biblical scholar N. T. Wright explains how the deistic views of 19th century Europe allowed the ideas of Darwinism to flourish. Thanks to my friend Wes for sending this along. Take a look.
