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The man Ben Bradlee wouldn't bring home for dinner is not, after all, much different from the majority of magazine and newspaper publishers in America. He is a shrewd businessman whose only goal in life has been to make a million bucks fast. The established press is anxiously trying...
No Flaw. Skepticism about the Bible, he thinks, results not from any flaw in the book itself but from the antisupernatural mood of modern philosophies. Logical positivism, for example, declares that statements about God are nonsense because they cannot be verified by direct empirical observation.
Henry finds secular philosophies inadequate not only because of logical weaknesses and unexamined presuppositions, but also because they do not take into account the breadth of human experience. Without revelation from God, he says, philosophers cannot prove their case for the dignity of mankind, nor can they provide any coherent...
Reason is not itself the source of truth, Henry believes, but rather an "instrument" given by God to discover the truth that God has communicated. Without reason, man "could never intelligibly discriminate God from the not-God, right from wrong, truth from untruth." Unlike many Evangelicals, Henry therefore insists that...
We are not entirely sure why we are wasting our time writing to comment on such a piece of self-apparent pap as Ms. Rosenthal's "Sociobiology: Laying the Foundation for a Racist Synthesis," (Crimson, 2/8/77) but perhaps we dislike seeing flagrant slanders and half-truths go unrebutted. Ms. Rosenthal...