In a comment to a previous post on Thanksgiving and Christmas, John made an interesting observation. He said that, given his reading of my political and religious leanings from my blog, he was surprised that I had used the term “Christmas shopping season” instead of the more generic “holiday shopping season,” since I am obviously …
Monthly Archive: November 2005
Nov 29 2005
Hollywood remakes
I don’t think that I will ever understand the logic by which some films get made in Hollywood, especially the decision on which older films to remake. Over the holiday weekend, we watched two films that happened to be remakes of films that I had seen in their original versions. One was The Manchurian Candidate …
Nov 28 2005
Thanksgiving and Christmas musings
For an immigrant like me, the Thanksgiving holiday took a long time to warm up to. It seems to be like baseball or cricket or peanut butter, belonging to the class of things that one has to get adjusted to at an early age in order to really enjoy it. For people who were born …
Nov 25 2005
Holiday break
Due to the Thanksgiving holidays, the next blog post will be on Monday, November 28th.
Nov 23 2005
Catholic Church turns away from Intelligent Design Creationism?
Perhaps the high point for the IDC (intelligent design creationism) movement in recent times was the New York Times op-ed essay on July 7, 2005 by the supposedly influential Roman Catholic Cardinal Schonborn, where he seemed to advocate the IDC position about the alleged weaknesses of Darwinian natural selection. He said “The Catholic Church will …
Nov 22 2005
“This I believe: I believe there is no God”
Those of you who regularly listen to NPR’s Morning Edition know that they are running a series called “This I Believe” where various people talk about the important beliefs in their lives. I have been listening on occasion and most contributors have expressed beliefs in motherhood-and-apple-pie kind of things. But Monday’s contribution by Penn Jillette …
Nov 21 2005
Intelligent design creationism losing ground?
Some time ago, I speculated that the intelligent design creationism (IDC) movement might have jumped the shark and was on a downward slide. Some recent developments might suggest that I was premature is seeing the demise of IDC. After all, just last week, the state of Kansas formally adopted language in their science standards that …
Nov 18 2005
Intelligent Design Creationism and the Dover trial: The constitutional issues
Many people wrongly assume that you cannot mention religion and god in the public schools. They speak of “god being driven out of the schools.” This is not correct. After all god and religion are necessary in order to understand much of US and world history and government and literature, to mention a few subjects. …
Nov 17 2005
Intelligent Design Creationism and the Dover trial: IDC as comparative religion?
Now that there is a new school board elected in Dover, there is an interesting wrinkle to this story. The new school board ran on a platform that did not call for the complete elimination of IDC from the schools. They said that it should be taught, except not in science classes. They said that …
Nov 16 2005
Intelligent Design Creationism and the Dover trial
It is time to take stock of what is going on in the Intelligent Design Creationism (IDC) front in the wake of the events of the past week and to see what it might all mean. The federal trial about whether the Dover school board’s policy on IDC was constitutional ended on Friday, November 4. …
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