The Sunni-Shiite War, Pakistan, and Israel
Looming: a nuclear showdown between Iran and Pakistan.
January 26, 2016
Jerry Coyne’s Confused Attack on Religion
Shifting definitions and circular arguments.
The latest salvo in the New Atheists’ attacks on religion comes in the form of the biologist Jerry Coyne’s Faith versus Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible. Edward Feser finds the book’s arguments confused, contradictory, and circular, not least because of its author’s failure to define what he means by “religion”:
January 26, 2016
Taking the Sponsors of Palestinian Terror to Court
How an American terror victim’s father won a groundbreaking settlement.
Torture and Confessions in Jewish Law
Can a person bear witness against himself?
Jerry Coyne’s Confused Attack on Religion
Shifting definitions and circular arguments.
Two Bitter Anniversaries for Middle Eastern Democracy
The overthrow of Mubarak and the victory of Hamas.