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...Scott Kerkmans, a former brewer who was hired last year by Four Points by Sheraton to help design its Best Brews program, which puts local beers on tap in the hotel chain's bars across the country. Kerkmans, 28, also recently set up a bus tour of Denver-area breweries brewtours.com) and he invited me to some of his favorites. The thing was, I explained, I don't really like beer...
There is nothing so tiresome as an argument that no one will ever concede--particularly if the participants don't seem to know it. And there's no place the fighting is growing more pointless than in the ongoing smackdown between evolutionists and advocates of intelligent design--the theory that the emergence of life must have been guided by a sentient planner...
...actor and game-show host Ben Stein, with his documentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, due out April 18. Stein nominally set out to make the case that academics who write about evolution are being muzzled or denied tenure if they so much as nod in the direction of intelligent design. It's impossible to know from the handful of examples he cites how widespread the problem is, but if there's anything to it at all, it's a matter well worth exposing...
...fairness to Stein, his opponents have hardly covered themselves in glory. Evolutionary biologists and social commentators have lately taken to answering the claims of intelligent-design boosters not with clear-eyed scientific empiricism but with sneering, finger-in-the-eye atheism. Biologist P.Z. Myers, for example, tells Stein that religion ought to be seen as little more than a soothing pastime, a bit like knitting. Books such as Christopher Hitchens' God Is Not Great and Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion often read like pure taunting, as when Hitchens pettily and pointedly types God as lowercase god. Tautology as typography...
...hand with the Science. By telling people what they should do, the science leaves the realm of impartial epistemological observation and enters the tumultuous space of morals and values. In this arena, science can be twisted to meet political ends and becomes embroiled in a cultural fight. The intelligent design movement uses the guise of science to promote a religious end. Both the Bush White House and Al Gore abuse science to promote environmental and economic policies. Facts become distorted; contradicting data is conveniently unmentioned; and people’s faith in scientific studies begins to wane...