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New Book on Intelligent Design Borchert, Scott Oct 30, 2008

Hello,

Monthly Review Press is pleased to announce the publication of "Critique of Intelligent Design: Materialism versus Creationism from Antiquity to the Present," by John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, and Richard York. After checking out your website, we thought you might be interested in this new and compelling book.

Rational inquiry has never been safe from the forces of superstition and reaction. Today that reaction comes in the form of the intelligent design movement, or creationism in its latest guise. "Critique of Intelligent Design" boldly defends materialism against the creationist argument, and traces this ongoing struggle from its historical roots in antiquity to its present manifestation in U.S. courtrooms—where the stakes are higher than many would imagine.

For more information, including praise for the book by Richard Lewontin, Barbara Forrest, and Fredric Jameson, among others, please visit www.critiqueofintelligentdesign.org.

To order a copy of Critique of Intelligent Design, please visit
http://www.monthlyreview.org/critiqueofintelligentdesign.php

Regards,
Scott Borchert
Monthly Review Press

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site might interest Dashevici, Peter Oct 30, 2008

this might interest someone

http://www.freewebs.com/expreacher/

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adding a link to my website Daniel Oct 08, 2008

Hi I run a website www.torahmyth.com. Can you pleas add a link to my website.

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Applying Meiri's shita to today's atheists Makovi, Mikhael Oct 08, 2008

Mr.(?) Goldstein,

You note in your article that Meiri's shita is problematic to apply to today, for his criteria (belief in creation, providence, and repentance)
are not prevalent amongst today's atheists. Your suggested suggestion is that Orthodox Jews start treating gentiles properly, and halakhic
justification will follow. I will not dispute your recommendation for Orthodox Jews to so behave, but I question whether we cannot in the
meantime come up with a favorable halakhic reasoning. Viz.:

It seems to me that we have a right to disagree with Meiri on what constitutes "religion". For Professor Moshe Halbertam's article in the Edah
Journal (p. 19) notes, "The Me'iri differed from his predecessors in how he ranked one possessed of religion and one possessed of wisdom, yet he
derived the concept of religion and its essential nature from the philosophical tradition that preceded him". In other words, Meiri's concept of "religion", and the fact that one possessing said "religion" is to be
treated differently by halacha, are two different independent matters. Thus, we need not necessarily follow Meiri on both - the former is borrowed by Meiri from the ibn Tibbons following Maimonidean tradition, and it is the latter that is in fact Meiri's own unique innovation. Therefore, we ought to be entitled to follow a different definition of "religion" (and thus differ with Meiri according to the ibn Tibbons follow Maimonidean philosophy - we are certainly not inclined to follow scholastic philosophy,
and all the less are we beholden to it!) and yet retain Meiri's own innovation that one possessing of "religion" is to be regarded specially. We simply need to define "religion" differently.

to be continued

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Vedas distance from moon Mike Sep 21, 2008

I noticed you quote [note 72 -- TR] that the moon is 800000 km further away from the sun acording to the Vedas.

According to my understanding the moon is 258.000 miles acording to the Rig veda
the Srima Bhagavitam relate the 8000000 km
the two fiqures are based on different concepts so you should reinvestigate your data to be more informative.

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Mike

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