New links for the blogroll: Pistol Pete, Got questions? and College Christian. Check ‘em out. I’ll wait here.
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Randy had an excellent series on Pay day loans that made me reconsider my views on them. It is a three-part ending on 5/22. I just linked to his main page so you can read them all at once.
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NARAL fuelds pro-abort civil war - Jill Stanek’s column.
On Jan. 24, when the pro-abort divide between Clinton and Obama supporters was escalating into civil war, National Abortion Rights Action League, or NARAL, President Nancy Keenan issued an appeal for all sides to remain calm and focused on the real enemies, preborn children.
Keenan assured factions that all Democrat candidates were equally qualified to advance prenatal killing.
I wonder who the National Organization for (unaborted) Women is endorsing?
Virtually all gender selection abortions destroy unborn female human beings, and the rate of abortions in black communities is 3x that of whites, so NARAL et al pull off a double-play of appealing to misogynists and racists (OK, that was a bit harsh but I really, really don’t like that organization).
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Scenes from the assisted suicide underground – even weirder than you would expect.
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The fear of publicly opposing Darwinism is real – even for someone who loathes Intelligent Design as well!
In the interview, Piattelli-Palmarini points out that many academic biologists muffle their unhappiness with the received neo-Darwinian theory, either out of fear of being ostracized, or from worries about being exploited by intelligent design advocates.
While selection clearly operates, he says, its power is confined to minor adjustments:
“Of course, there is natural selection all around us (just think of the flu virus, mutating and adapting every year, to our detriment) and inside us (just think of our antibodies and our synapses and the pancreas cells and the epithelial cells). The point is, however, that organisms can be modified and refined by natural selection, but that is NOT the way new species and new classes and new phyla originated.”
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The Dawkins Delusion (Hat tip: College Christian) and Incredible creatures that defy evolution (Hat tip: DawkinsWatch). Friendly reminder to trolls: Save your keystrokes
Filed under: Weekly roundup | Tagged: Apologetics, evolution, ID, Politics, religion
Thanks for adding “Necessary Therapy” to your blogroll. Coming from you, I feel very honored.
Piattelli-Palmarini noted in the interview,
Hate indeed, how very telling…
The “Creatures” video has to be one of the stupidest pieces of work I’ve seen in a while. Talk about wild assumptions. This guy’s thinking is way too linear. Former scientist, huh? I believe that – because there’s no way he could stay a scientist and still put food on the table.
You say: “Virtually all gender selection abortions destroy unborn female human beings”
There is absolutely no information that indicates that sex selective abortion in the US targets females more than males. In the US, although abortion is common, abortion for the purpose of sex selection is rare (the vast majority of abortions occur before the baby’s sex can be known by any means). And since abortion was legalized, the male/female birth ratio has *declined* (meaning an increase in female births).
Although the sex selective abortion of baby girls in Asian countries is well known, there is no evidence at all that females are aborted more often than males in any Western country.
Check the facts on this.
Neil, thanks for the plug…
Maureen,
I think you are mistaken, because the cultures in the U.S. most interested in gender selection abortions strongly prefer males.
But, for the sake of argument, let’s assume your facts are completely correct. What do you conclude from that?
Are gender selection abortions in Asian countries a wrong thing? If so, why?
If people did do gender selection abortions in the U.S. and targeted females would that be a bad thing? If so, why?
The answers are that they are wrong because they destroy innocent human beings. Killing unborn females is as bad as killing unborn males, it is just that the abortion process assists those who prefer males to carry out their evil.
If it is ever bad to kill unborn females for any reason in any place then you have to ask yourself, “Why?” And what you’ll find is that the answer logically leads you to realize that abortion is wrong.
I found both of those videos to be absolutely amazing, Neil, and I enjoyed both of them. How anyone would say either of them is “stupid” is beyond me! Thanks for sharing them. I didn’t need to watch them to believe in intelligent design, though. I see it in a flower, in the vegetables I grow in my garden, in the perfection of a newborn life, everywhere. It doesn’t even have to be explained by faith. All it takes is common sense, which seems to be in short supply.