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...latest shot is being fired by economist, 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...
...living cell could have possibly arisen whole from the earth's primordial soup. The answer is it couldn't--and it didn't. Organic chemicals needed eons of stirring and slow cooking before they could produce compounds that could begin to lead to a living thing. More dishonestly, Stein employs the common dodge of enumerating all the admittedly unanswered questions in evolutionary theory and using this to refute the whole idea. But all scientific knowledge is built this way. A fishnet is made up of a lot more holes than strings, but you can't therefore argue that...
...film's final third that it runs entirely off the rails as Stein argues that there is a clear line from Darwinism to euthanasia, abortion, eugenics and--wait for it--Nazism. Theories of natural selection, it's claimed, were a necessary if not sufficient condition for Hitler's killing machine to get started. The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human. We've always been a lustily fratricidal species, one that needed no Charles Darwin to goad us into millenniums of self...
...baby. 10) Screw recruiting. Harvard can buy the Celtics. Does that violate any Ivy League standards? 11) To conserve, showerheads will be removed and students will receive an Evian bottle for daily showering. In most respects, this sucks. But hey, it’s Evian. 12) Grey Goose at Stein Clubs...oh wait. Scratch that—thanks, Pilbeam. 13) Harvard will purchase a Caribbean island. It will serve as the Ad Board’s Guantanamo Bay. 14) Svens for everyone. (Blackberry commercial, anyone?) 15) Drew Faust will launch a task force on how to spend increased funds. Unfortunately...
...Medioli said. “We think we could have done better but pretty confident that we’re going to get faster as the season goes on.” Next week, the Crimson will travel to Providence, to challenge the Bears for the Stein Cup in the first dual race of the season. Harvard reclaimed the cup last season after losing in the 2006 campaign, a defeat that broke the Crimson’s 24-race winning streak. “Brown is always a pretty competitive matchup,” Medioli said. “They?...