For those who don’t know: Tucker Max is famous for writing nonfiction stories about his life, both on his website and his New York Times bestselling book, I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell. What kind of stories about his life? I can’t sum it up better than Tucker himself: My name is Tucker Max, [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Review: I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell (The Movie)
Posted by Chris Hallquist on September 15, 2009
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Review: Finding Darwin’s God
Posted by Chris Hallquist on September 10, 2009
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Let me say this first: Kenneth Miller’s Finding Darwin’s God is easily one of the best books I’ve ever read on the relationship between science and religion. The one-half of the book dedicated to defending evolution and debunking various strains of creationism is as good or better than what you’d find in books dedicated solely [...]
Ashcroft is going to court
Posted by Chris Hallquist on September 10, 2009
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Former attorney general John Ashcroft is going to court for detaining people as “material witnesses.” This is a very good thing, because it means some light will finally be shed on this. Like “enemy combatant,” “material witness” is a term that was used to detain people forever without charges. Unlike the “enemy combatant” label, though, [...]
New Agers
Posted by Chris Hallquist on September 8, 2009
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I just discovered a comment left on the blog from someone claiming to be a high school classmate. Go ahead, click the link–I thought it was hilarious for reasons I couldn’t quite pin down. But that’s not the reason for this post, the reason for this post is what I wrote in response: Yes, my [...]
John Lennox: Closet creationist charlatan (a review of God’s Undertaker)
Posted by Chris Hallquist on September 8, 2009
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Superficially, John C. Lennox’s book God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? looks like another “Science and Religion can get along” book, along the lines of Kenneth Miller’s Finding Darwin’s God (which I’m going to try to review tomorrow). Nothing on the back cover suggests anything else, not the book description nor the blurbs. Same goes [...]