O'Leary's new blog, The Post-Darwinist

O'Leary has started a blog, http://post-darwinist.blogspot.com/

Rules are few and simple:

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Having been an editor for many years, I am comfortable exercising divine
powers, and rarely even notice the offender's anger. Many blogs encourage
the trends I deplore [threats, rants, abuse, filth, blasphemy, online
philosophy treatises, and bloviating from boffins], so there is no need to
remain in my universe when so many others beckon.

Post comments by all means, but I suggest this simple self-test first:

"Has it ever occurred to me that even my nearest and dearest find me a
thunderous bore?"

Answer: If that thought has never occurred to you, my precious little party
sox, be cautious about posting here.

I do try to be a Christian, but my besetting sin is a tendency to just pull
the chain on bores. Perhaps unjustly. All the more reason not to presume on
my limited patience.

I can always go to confession. You can't always get my attention again.

Anyway, if you like the posts that will shortly follow, bookmark the page
and we will have some fun together! - Denyse, Toronto

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Meanwhile, here are my thoughts on the poor ill-used teachers in Kansas,
whose students read up on objections to Darwinism and question it:

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Here's a matchless quotation from a teacher, in the <em>Christian Science
Monitor's</em> story on the Kansas evolution hearings,

"I don't want to ever be in a confrontational mode with those kids ... I
find it disheartening as a teacher."

Oh my precious little teacherkins, I just cannot imagine anything worse than
being in a confrontational mode with those kids. Do hurry and get a law
passed that makes it a felony for their parents, the media, or any other
adult, to convey to them information that results in questions you don't
feel like answering. Contact your teachers union rep today. This must be
sorted out at once!!!

Seriously, the teachers fondly remember from my own brathood welcomed
confrontation over ideas. Indeed, as I recall, we argued over Darwinian
evolution in my Grade Eight class in London, Ontario (Canada), in 1963. I
wonder who we should all sue for not protecting us from "a confrontational
mode"? My only regret is that we didn't have a Jonathan Wells back then to
stir the pot. (Wells was probably writing lines in those days for some
offence unrelated to questioning Darwinism.)
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Anyway, please send people to my blog who will get good and mad, so I get a
chance to pull the chain now and then.

Cheers, Denyse

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Read brief excerpts from my book, By Design or by Chance?: The Growing
Controversy On the Origins of Life in the Universe (Augsburg Fortress, 2004)
at
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Denyse O'Leary
Tel: 416 485-2392
Fax: 416 485-2392
oleary@sympatico.ca 
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