Keywords: Intelligent Design
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EDUCATION
- Fatima Measham
- 29 July 2011
7 Comments
The stoush over school ethics classes recalls the war in US schools over 'creation science' and its place in the curriculum. Christians should support programs that give students opportunities to think deeply about what it means to be a human among other humans.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 22 July 2010
1 Comment
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idea of 'killing God' causes Darwin great anguish. In one scene, after a
night spent scribbling his manuscript, he is shown frantically scrubbing
at the ink stains on his fingers — Lady Macbeth trying to remove
mythical blood.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 16 October 2008
2 Comments
Two people embrace on a verandah. The camera pulls back to disclose a housing estate, with couples embracing on each verandah. Relativism works like the move from close-up to broad perspective in film, by seeming to deflate the significance of what we have just seen.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 10 October 2008
11 Comments
Intelligent Design inhabits the shell-pocked no-man's land between science and religion. Steve Fuller argues that it should be taught as an option because science depends on religion. But his version of religion will set pious teeth on edge.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 08 May 2008
8 Comments
Literary festivals introduce us to new writing. They rarely celebrate the old, for nothing is older than an old book. The works of St Augustine challenge our instinctive assumption that new wisdom supersedes old wisdom.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Pierce
- 22 August 2007
1 Comment
Future Perfect is ABC broadcaster Robyn Williams' sketch of much that imperils the human future. Whatever flaws and fancies there may have been in God's blueprint, Williams does surprisingly little to produce projections of his own.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tim Thwaites
- 10 July 2006
Warnings are more effective if accompanied by a photo of someone watching you. Maybe this reflects our human evolution. But if we are to talk sensibly about human evolution, we need a more sophisticated understanding of it than commonly prevails.
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INFORMATION
- Michael McKernan, Frank O’Shea, Mark Deasey, Morag Fraser, John Carmody, Brigid Hains, Pip Robertson
- 03 July 2006
Peace drums, Irish visitor, Travellers’ tales, Epiphanies, Deep structure, Counter-terrorism kits, Circling the square
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ARTS AND CULTURE
God's Politics is a book which, though flawed, does manage to straddle the divide between left and right, and in so doing, poses some interesting questions that neither side of politics can comfortably answer.
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AUSTRALIA
- Robert Hefner
- 14 May 2006
Robert Hefner speaks with Morag Fraser and Peter Steele about the qualities that made Eureka Street a special magazine.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tim Thwaites
- 24 April 2006
The old religion versus evolution debate is back. The latest contender in the conservative religion corner is known as intelligent design.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 20 April 2006
Is it just me, or is it always a bit strange at the start of another year? As if you can feel the earth and the sky and the ambience of things shifting wearily into another gear with a here-we-go-again crunching of cosmic cogs.
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