Re: NRO Article

2004-03-17 Thread EDarr1776
In a message dated 3/17/2004 1:19:46 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What would your view be of a high school science text book that, for example, noted that Darwinian therory offers no explanation for how matter came to exist in the first place? Or, that macro-evolution is

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2004-03-16 Thread Eastman, John
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NRO Article I have two responses: First, no sense of the Senate resolution has the force of law, according to the U.S. Senate Counsel. U.S. Senate: Legislation Records Home Legislative Process Legislation, Laws, and Acts (see Simple Resolutions) Any suggestion

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2004-03-16 Thread RJLipkin
As a former philosophy professor I can't resist making two points:First, as Hume insists, any world at all must reveal some structure however chaotic. Thus the ID position seems to be clearly unfalsifiable. What empirical facts could exist convincing IDists that there exists a world without an

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2004-03-16 Thread Gibbens, Daniel G.
Academics Subject: Re: NRO Article Hmm. Science does provide lots of information about origins and about how processes began. Except for the answer to Why is there anything instead of nothing? We can't yet look behind the big bang. But we understand chemistry pretty well. And how it began

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2004-03-16 Thread Scarberry, Mark
from evil or suffering is convincing. Mark S. Scarberry Pepperdine University School of Law -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 8:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NRO Article As a former philosophy profess

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2004-03-15 Thread Eastman, John
The tyrannical orthodoxy of the Darwinian crowd is truly amazing. Herein the key charge by University of Texas professor Brian Leiter: The author of this incompetent book note [a review of Francis Beckwith's book on intelligent design]. . . is one Lawrence VanDyke, a student editor of

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2004-03-15 Thread EDarr1776
In a message dated 3/15/2004 2:49:56 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Scholarly fraud? That is a pretty serious accusations and, from what I have learned of the science on the subject, clearly false. Has Leiter opened himself up to a libel claim? Have the devotees of Darwinism

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2004-03-15 Thread Steven Jamar
I hope no one takes seriously 1. that the editor of the harvard law review is so easily cowed or 2. that any single academic has such power to ruin another's career two over-the-top points made in the nro article. Seems being over the top and alarmist is not all on one side. -- Prof. Steven

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2004-03-15 Thread EDarr1776
In a message dated 3/15/2004 4:00:52 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I hope no one takes seriously 1. that the editor of the harvard law review is so easily cowed or 2. that any single academic has such power to ruin another's career two over-the-top points made in the nro

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2004-03-15 Thread RJLipkin
"And let none of the many law professors who are readers of this site be mistaken: Mr. VanDyke has perpetrated a scholarly fraud, one that may have political and pedagogical consequences (italics mine)." What is thespecific fraud that Leiter complains about? Bobby Robert Justin Lipkin

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2004-03-15 Thread Ross S. Heckmann
truly yours, Ross S. Heckmann Attorney at Law Arcadia, California - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 1:24 PM Subject: Re: NRO Article In a message dated 3/15/2004 2:49:56 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL

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2004-03-15 Thread Steven Jamar
I suppose one could point to the failure to examine the premises of Beckwith's book may be one. Passing off as a scholarly examination something which is really an apologist's essay may be a bit fraudulent. Sorta like pretending many commentators are in fact reporters. Though I don't believe

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2004-03-15 Thread Christopher C. Lund
issues for Law Academics [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NRO Article Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 17:44:30 -0500 I suppose one could point to the failure to examine the premises of Beckwith's book may be one. Passing off as a scholarly examination something which is really an apologist's essay may

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2004-03-15 Thread Amar D. Sarwal
essage - From: Steven Jamar To: Law Religion issues for Law Academics Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 5:44 PM Subject: Re: NRO Article I suppose one could point to the failure to examine the premises of Beckwith's book may be one. Passing off as a scholarly examination somet

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2004-03-15 Thread Francis Beckwith
Title: Re: NRO Article Heres the portion of my book that deals with the Santorum Amendment. (Maybe this will clarify things a bit). I took it off of the pre-edited manuscript version, so I would appreciate if the members of this list not post it or send it to anyone. This is part of the Intro