The Price Of Liberty Is, In Addition

Darwin Matters Because Evolution Matters. Evolution Matters Because Science Matters. Science Matters Because It Is The Preeminent Story Of Our Age, An Epic Saga About Who We Are, Where We Came From And Where We Are Going.

The First-cause And Prime-mover Argument, Brilliantly Proffered By St. Thomas Aquinas In The Fourteenth Century (and Brilliantly Refuted By David Hume In The Eighteenth Century), Is Easily Turned Aside With Just One More Question: Who Or What Caused And Moved God?

The Evening Was Very Professionally Organized, And Most Of The People Were Exceptionally Polite, Although It Did Make Me A Little Nervous When One Church Official Told Me After The Debate When A Big Crowd Of People Surrounded Me That He Had Assigned Me A Body Guard "just In Case." Just In Case What? I Thought Christians Were Suppose To Be Exceptionally Tolerant. Well, In Any Case, I Guess I Was Grateful For The Gesture, "just In Case."

What Can Be More Soul Shaking Than Peering Through A 100-inch Telescope At A Distant Galaxy, Holding A 100-million-year-old Fossil Or A 500,000-year-old Stone Tool In One's Hand, Standing Before The Immense Chasm Of Space And Time That Is The Grand Canyon, Or Listening To A Scientist Who Gazed Upon The Face Of The Universe's Creation And Did Not Blink?

As Karl Marx Once Noted: 'hegel Remarks Somewhere That All Great, World-historical Facts And Personages Occur, As It Were, Twice. He Forgot To Add: The First Time As Tragedy, The Second As Farce.' William Jennings Bryan And The Scopes Trial Was A Tragedy. The Creationists And Intelligent Design Theorists Are A Farce.