Human Origins and Human Self-Image

It's remarkable how lots of smart people can condemn trends toward barbarism and irrationality in our culture without ever probing the origins of those trends -- lying as they do, at least partly, in scientific materialism. For these men and women who ought to know better, the prestige of prevailing academic opinion is too much to permit asking tough questions.

It comes down to self-image. In a talk delivered in Coeur d'Alene, ID, at a recent conference on human origins, Discovery Institute'...