Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.

Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.

It's amazing how much detail Catholics will go into documenting why people shouldn't do the things that they all do anyway.

Plantinga has written a short, 5 page summary of his views on evolution and naturalism, and it’s lucid (for Plantinga) and goes straight to his main points. The workings of the man's mind sit there naked and exposed, and all the stripped gears and misaligned cogs and broken engines of his misperception are there for easy examination. Read it, and you'll wonder how a man so confused could have acquired such a high reputation; you might even think that philosophy has been Sokaled.

If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your beliefs - rethinking the world isn't an option.

Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations.

We shouldn't be gratuitously obnoxious, we should be purposefully obnoxious.