Gordy Slack was on the radio in the Bay Area yesterday and the show is now online. I haven’t listened to the whole thing yet but I’m sure it was good, since Gordy is quite a thoughtful guy. Gordy is also doing a reading at Books Inc. Opera Plaza, 601 Van Ness Ave. SF, CA, on Monday, 7/16. 7:00 pm – I might go myself if I get the chance…
Fri, Jul 13, 2007 – 10:00 AM Author Gordy Slack Listen (RealMedia stream) Download (MP3)
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The show welcomes author Gordy Slack for a conversation focusing on his book, “The Battle over the Meaning of Everything: Evolution, Intelligent Design and a School Board in Dover, PA.”
Host: Dave Iverson
Guests: Gordy Slack , author of “The Battle over the Meaning of Everything: Evolution, Intelligent Design and a School Board in Dover, PA.”
Gordy Slack: “it all started in the late 1990’s when a very conservative , sort of ‘old Dover’ faction, began to take over the school board. And it was very…when I say ‘old Dover’, i mean Dover as a community split between newcomers who are commuters to Harrisburg…” Iverson: “…the state capital…” Slack: “…the state capital of Pennsylvania…they say Pennsylvania has Phliadelphia in the East, and Pittsburgh in the West, and Alabama in between.”
LOL.
I’m sure it’s been said before, but I can’t resist: Give the anti-evolutionists some Slack.
Slack was marginally O.K., but he give the Discovery Institute far too much credit as honest seekers of knowledge.
Ivcrson is a milktoast sop who is far more interested in feel-good woo woo than reality.
Waldteufel, did you mean to say “milquetoast”? LOL!
I was unable to access his talk, but IMO, almost everyone gives the Discovery Institute far too much credit as honest seekers of knowledge
I was unable to access his talk, but IMO, almost everyone gives the Discovery Institute far too much credit as honest seekers of knowledge
Is this ID’s new thesis?
Re “Is this ID’s new thesis?”
Maybe note #188000 was an attempt at a cure for insomnia?
Henry
Wow. So I just junked a comment that was probably the all-time PT record holder for length, illucidity, crankiness, off-topicness, cussing, and general crazyness. It was pages long and totally uninterpretable…
Not even the bathroom wall?
OT, I found Slack less than adamant in his opposition to creationism. (I also a very hard time staying awake. In fact, I couldn’t do it).
I thought hitting “junk” sent it to the BW. Anyway it had indications of just being some bizarre kind of computer spam rather than something worth discussing.
PS - Slack has what I would call “sympathy” for the ID guys, sympathy in the sort of academic sense. Kind of like the USSR nerds at the CIA during the Cold War.
Looks like I am going:
Meaning of everything?
Forty two.
:D
Henry
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