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Our apologies for leaving you with Ricochet-less week! In order to make it up to you, we go big with a couple of our favorite recurring guests. First up is Ann Coulter to explain why she thinks the Republican Party is doing all it can to blow yet another election. Then Debra Saunders returns to take us through Dominion’s suit against Fox News and the outrageous biases therein.
The gang also touch on Robert Kennedy, Jr.’s challenge to Joe Biden (and the damage it could do to him!) along with Rob and Charles’ grand time in New Orleans meeting Ricochet members!
Song of the week:
- Sound bite is lead Dominion lawyer Justin Nelson announcing settlement with FoxNews
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That is not an accurate description. Creationism is based on sacred texts of the Abrahamic religions, while the Discovery Institute operates under the theory of Intelligent Design. From NPR:
We have many people here who believe in a Creator. The nation’s founding fathers certainly did. Or maybe you wish to embrace civilizational decline as the ultimate proof of Darwinism.
Who hasn’t fallen out with National Review?
Always a buck to made there.
Thanks FredGoodhue for the kind words about “Covering Trump.”
Thank you to EJHill for pointing out the erroneous assertion about Discovery and creationism.
What bothers me about this response is the guilt-by-association argument. It has nothing to do with the discussion and it’s a favorite tactic on the left to seek to isolate and marginalize people, not ideas. Also it suggests that people should only listen to approved voices, which you probably/hopefully did not intend to do.
Ricochet is better than that.
Have you been here much, lately? :-)
Attacking ideas and institutions is taken quite personally by some people. I have been noticing that lately. My beef with Ann Coulter is that she always goes to the personal.
I looked forward to listening to the his podcast primarily because I heard the podcast about covering Trump.
But intelligent design is putting lipstick on the pig of creationism. Of course people can believe what they want to believe. My biggest problem with creationism is that it is associated with conservatism, and it makes conservatism look bad to most people and so harms conservatism.
If believing in God looks bad for conservatism then the country deserves what is about to befall it – good and hard.
Creationism, in its various forms, is not a prerequisite for believing in God.
Since when? Maybe in the First Church of Fred, but in Islam, Judaism and Christianity the story of the creation is the same. But more on point, what you’re saying is exactly the position of the Discovery Institute – that science points to a Creator but does not mandate belief in the six-day creation story of either the Torah or the Qur’an.
I have done a little research into intelligent design. It is not creationism. It is a worthwhile philosophical debate Dr. Bastiat wrote about it quite well.
https://ricochet.com/631740/heisenberg-was-right-about-the-theology-of-frightened-warts/comment-page-4/#comments
Actually genomes show much evidence of “stupid design”, because nature is selecting among random variations.
A good example is the sickle cell trait in Africa. A random variation became widespread in the population because, overall, it produced a reproductive advantage. Meanwhile, thousands of years later, a different random variation occurred in Asia, which also protects against malaria but without causing disease.
Intelligent design is just creationism plus rationalization.
There are lots among of stupid designs among all humanity. But it seems to me that the amazing complexity of a nucleus suggests a G-d.
That’s sure not how I would characterize it. I don’t think anyone was “put in their place” and frankly, I think Charlie’s argument was the better one. I would be shocked if Dominion’s prospects for future business hadn’t been damaged by all the false stories about how their voting machines were rigged.
Ironically Dominion owns the intellectual assets of Diebold Voting Systems, who was run out of the voting business by Democrats who claimed the machines were rigged to deliver Ohio to George W. Bush.
Seems like that would only be a problem if the people who actually buy voting machines were influenced. And those aren’t “regular people.” Dominion doesn’t have to worry about a drop in sales of voting machines at Walmart.
Right, states buy voting machines. And who runs states? Elected officials. If you have over half of Republican voters believing that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump and that Dominion voting machines were part of the conspiracy, there is a very heavy disincentive to choose to buy Dominion machines if you are a Republican legislator.
A couple decades ago the TV show 60 Minutes did a segment on the Audi 5000 and how the car would accelerate out of control, even though the driver didn’t have his foot on the gas. Why, it seemed that the harder the driver stepped on the brake, the more the throttle would open! 60 Minutes even had a mechanic tamper with the transmission in one so they could show this happening on TV, although the audience wasn’t told that this was a tampered-with car. The government launched an investigation and when these cases were investigated it turned out there was nothing mechanically wrong with these cars. The phrase the government used was “pedal misapplication.” The typical case was an older driver who was not the primary driver of the car and he or she stepped on the wrong pedal. Once a few stories got out about this, everybody who had ever crashed an Audi 5000 jumped on the bandwagon and said Yes, it wasn’t my fault, these cars take off on their own.
Even though the product was cleared, Audi sales were devastated because of the story. You can bet that a lot more people heard about these out-of-control cars then heard that the cars were cleared. Maybe people are smarter today than they were 20-30 years ago, but I doubt it.
But state elected officials didn’t buy Audi 5000s for people.
I did some looking. Ann is in-fact a never-married, childless aunt. She attended UMich at the same time I did, but I don’t remember seeing her–I did not hang around the law library much.
Yes, I did some checking too before writing that. I guess the remaining question is her attitude about wine.