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09/20/07

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Toronto journalist's further correspondence with the Darwin fans

by Denyse O'Leary
ARN correspondent

I don't know what I would do without my regular fix of Toronto journalist David Warren, who - having made clear that he thinks Darwinism a crock - is constantly hearing from anxious Darwin fans, who don't know what they'll do if it isn't true.

If life cannot be produced accidentally by jiggling chemicals in a test tube, ... apparently life makes no sense to them - or something like that anyway.

Warren continues to offer boilerplate responses (one must live, after all). Indeed, he appears to know some of the same Darwoids as I hear from, to judge from their inimitable prose style:

"Atrociously bad, pig-ignorant garbage." ... "Mixture of gall & negligence." ... "Sheer brazen quality of this ignorance is a wonder to behold."

This is what's said ABOUT the likes of me, third-personally, by the more articulate correspondents advising my editors to sack me. The letters to me personally are, however, much ruder. As usual, among the charges, I am a "faggot," or at least a "closet fag."

[ ... ]

Many, many, of my apoplectic correspondents refer me to websites on "The God Delusion," & other standard sources for atheist proselytizing. Several correspondents refer to a website where Michael Behe's "claims" are "refuted" in a similar manner to the above (i.e. with a lot of more-or-less clinical abusive language).

And apparently, many of these ill-tempered illiterates have taken to styling themselves "the New Enlightenment."

To hear Warren's literate thoughts on "the survival instinct", go here.

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Favorable review of Behe's Edge of Evolution

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Terminology wars: Materialist philosopher calls agnostic biochemist a creationist

CS Lewis on science writing - why it matters

Milt Rosenberg interviews Mario Beauregard (The Spiritual Brain) and Francis Collins (The Language of God) Thursday night 9:05 Chicago tmei

How memory works: Not like we thought.

Why spiritual histories of countries are necessary

Altruism files: Entrepreneur doctor honours promise despite dotcom disaster

Is the mind just an illusion?

HarperCollins Canada offers free stuff from The Spiritual Brain.

Toronto-based Canadian journalist Denyse O'Leary (www.designorchance.com) is the author of the multiple award-winning By Design or by Chance? (Augsburg Fortress 2004), an overview of the intelligent design controversy. She was named CBA Canada's Recommended Author of the Year in 2005 and is co-author, with Montreal neuroscientist Mario Beauregard, of the forthcoming The Spiritual Brain: A neuroscientist's case for the existence of the soul (Harper 2007).

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