I went to National Review and read the archives of Mr. Derbyshire - particularly the Q&A about his beliefs in God.
After reading that article, I want to amend what I said earlier. Mr. Derbyshier is jus a tired old guy who’s Christian beliefs were actually “whittled” away. I mean, born an Anglican (a really hollow form of Christianity) and then going through life misreading all the cues (describing your kids in bio-terms is ok, but I’m particularly amazed at the differences in my three kids).
Mr. Derbyshire is still a wishy-washy believer in God. He’s just not a Christian any longer. If he were a convert to Judaism, that would be an entirely different thing. However, his snarky article shows that he sides with the evolutionists and mocks the creationists. Is Mr. Derbyshire also pro-abortion? I didn’t read all of his articles in archive.
My biggest disappointment is his open animosity toward Ben Stein’s documentary. Mr. Stein isn’t arguing in favor of ID, he’s highlighting the intolerant Stalinism of the pro-evolution academics.
Hey, the real target is our freedoms. If the evolutionists are right, then there is no God. If no God, no God-given rights. No inalienable rights either. Rights then become “permission slips” which can be rescinded.
It’s another topic, but I am distrustful to the point of despising the term “civil rights”. How does a civil right differ from a natural right? I’ll tell you. A civil right is a government given right and can be taken away or modified at will.
The Marxists had to replace something with something so to trick the freedom loving people of America they invented the term “civil right” and we now all use it.
Yours truly,
The Woim
P.S. - Who cares if you’re a religious believer? As long as you don’t start advocating socialism we’ll get along just fine. However, too too many atheists lose their religious belief in God and replace it with a childlike belief in the omnipotence of government. And for the record, all government is coersion.
First, "If the evolutionists are right, then there is no God." is simply unreasonable. I'm an evolutionist and think it quite possible that there could be a God who set up the laws and processes by which we got from fourteen billion years ago to today.
Second, your entire sentence as quoted above can be restated as, "In order for us to have inalienable rights, it's imperative that evolution not be true." That may be a good rationale for any given person to want to believe in creation, but it's well short of being a scientific argument.
Yup....little weasely liberals like Michael Newdow hijacking his own daughter to get God out of the pledge...they hijack government, if they can’t do that, it’s the legal system.
Sad little angry people, liberals!
Yeah!
How dare they demand that ID advocates produce some evidence for their theory before they start teaching it in science classes! How dare they deny tenure to someone who fails to back up his assertions with empirical evidence!