Evolutie verklaart leven op aarde niet stond gisteren in het Reformatorisch Dagblad (link werkt niet op zondag) boven een artikel over een symposium in Urk waar evolutieontkenners elkaar religieus ingegeven, achterhaalde en, op zijn best, aan alle kanten rammelende wetenschappelijke verhaaltjes vertelden.
En daarmee heeft het Reformatorisch Dagblad het bij het rechte eind. Want zoals iedereen [...]
Apparently, police officers with an islamic background can be sworn in with an appropriate vow: “In naam van Allah, de Barmhartige Erbarmer, en hij is mijn getuige dat ik dit beloof” (roughly: “In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful, and he is my witness to this promise”).
Today it became clear that the SGP [...]
[Editor's note: I've got to rant about some Dutch issues. Summary in English behind the jump.]
Deze week heb ik mij gruwelijk opgewonden over het verwerpelijke gedrag van diverse mensen die overlopend van Christelijke naastenliefde namens de Christenunie mensen hun privé-opvattingen op willen dringen.
Begin deze week stuurt staatssecretaris Jet Bussemaker (VWN, PvdA) een brief naar de [...]
After having read Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion last year, there probably was no need to read Christopher Hitchens’ God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. And if I had actually read its first line (see below) or turned to page 69 (as per Marshall McLuhen), I probably wouldn’t have bothered.
Like Dawkins, Hitchens is [...]
Our prime-minister, in a reaction on Geert Wilders’ film, Fitna:
Muslims, Christians and people of other convictions can easily live together in peace. The problem is not religion, but misuse of religion to sow hatred and intolerance. That is why we are calling for respect for everyone’s deepest convictions.
This year, Dodenherdenking (May 4th, the annual remembrance [...]
February 18, 2008 – 22:46
While I should be doing constructive — like working on that presentation for Friday, or planning what to cook for nine people on Saturday — my mind can’t stop going over something our prime-minister said. Yesterday, in an interview for ‘Hour of Power’ (the interview starts about 33 minutes in), he said
Omdat je zonder het [...]
Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion argues that any creative intelligence, of sufficient complexity to design anything, comes into existence only as the end product of an extended process of gradual evolution. And since 1) evolution does a perfect job at explaining how complex organisms like us humans came to be, 2) there is no factual [...]