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  Ryan 3:24 pm on September 27, 2008 Permalink
  Tags: Education, Susan Jacoby   

  “American Unreason” 

  I just walked over to Barnes & Noble, mostly to just get out of the house for a bit, and found Susan Jacoby’s The Age of American Unreason. I’m excited to read it, even though I’m certain our worldviews differ, because it looks like it will help me understand my own thoughts about our current cultural predicament. Expect more about this book in a future post.

   

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  Ryan 11:16 pm on April 28, 2008 Permalink
  Tags: Christianity (7), Darwinism, documentary, Education, evolution, freedom, Intelligent Design, movie, nihilism, politics, religion, review (2), science (2), thought, worldview   

  Review: Expelled 

  Julie and I went to see Ben Stein’s Expelled tonight, and we both loved it. Expelled is perhaps the most entertaining film on science ever made. It was also very well balanced and thought provoking. Most interesting and entertaining of all was Richard Dawkins‘ (author of The God Delusion) admission towards the end of the film that a form of intelligent design (possibly aliens or Luke Skywalker’s great-great-grandchild) could be possible and that they really don’t know where life could have come from. (Another “scientist”’s assertion that life formed on the backs of crystals was a bit more ridiculous and entertaining.) (More …)