Archive for April, 2006

Posted on April 25, 2006 - by Aaron Ross Powell

It’s Okay To Kill: A Libertarian Argument for the Death Penalty

For those of us who believe in limited government and the fallibility of human certainty, the death penalty can pose quite a problem. Is it ever okay to kill someone because of his own criminal actions? I confess to being torn about the morally proper answer to this question. Even if I […]

Posted on April 23, 2006 - by Aaron Ross Powell

Intelligent Design’s Logical Fallacies

The many articles on Newsvine regarding creationism and intelligent design have sparked a good deal of comments from proponents of those views, several expressing the same tired arguments for why creationism ought to be afforded time in science classrooms across the country. Primarily, they argue that, because the evidence for evolution isn’t convincing (to […]