Author: H. James Birx
Dr. H. James Birx is Executive Director for the Alliance of Secular Humanist Societies (ASHS). During 1997, he will be a Visiting Research Scholar at The Center for Inquiry, Amherst, New York.
Matter Matters
Materialism: An Affirmative History and Definition, by Richard C. Vitz thum (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1995, ISBN 1-57392-027-4) 246 pp., $29.95 cloth. Contemporary Materialism: A Reader, ed. by Paul K. Moser and J.D. Trout (New York: Routledge, 1995, ISBN 0-415-10864-0) 378 pp., $22.95 paper. In his clear, concise, and critical presentation of philosophical materialism, …
Catholic Primate Clings to Evolution
Surprisingly, on October 24, 1996, Pope John Paul II endorsed evolution as “more than just a theory” and thereby biblical fundamentalism as so-called scientific creationism was dealt yet another blow to its vacuous claims about the origin of this universe and the appearance of life-forms on the Earth. Biblical creationists continue to ignore the overwhelming …