Insane exchange. Newly elected Democrat Adam Hamawy refuses to call Iran an adversary. BROWN: Do you see Iran as the adversary? HAMAWY: "We pushed them into a fight" BROWN: But are they the adversary? HAMAWY: "We should be making friends" BROWN: They've been saying "death to America" for decades HAMAWY: "We've been saying 'death to Iran'" BROWN: They've killed a lot of Americans HAMAWY: "And we've killed a lot of them" BROWN: So you don't see Iran as an adversary? HAMAWY: "I see that we are pushing Iran into a fight"

Gad Saad, your argument is juvenile and sophomoric. Invoking Richard Dawkins and declaring that evolution has more evidence than gravity is not scientific methodology. It is an appeal to authority dressed up as intellectual superiority. You have not addressed the fundamental questions. What is the origin of existence itself? What accounts for the laws governing the universe? What is the ultimate source of human consciousness, intelligence, reason, and objective morality? Then explain the historical chronology. If humanity supposedly existed for hundreds of thousands of years, why are the recognizable institutions of civilization, including organized governments, written laws, cities, complex engineering, and administrative systems, concentrated within the last several thousand years? Do not merely recite a timeline. Explain the evidence, the methodology, and why the conclusions follow. Human beings appear in recorded civilization as intelligent, reasoning, morally accountable creatures capable of extraordinary ingenuity. The biblical account declares that God created humanity in His image, male and female, endowed with the capacities necessary to fulfill His purpose. Adaptation to environmental and climatic conditions does not, by itself, establish that humanity descended from a different ancestral species. Nor does identifying biological mechanisms explain why life, consciousness, rationality, or moral obligation exists in the first place. You cannot invoke natural laws and then pretend that those laws have explained their own existence. Nor can you establish that the universe is unguided merely by describing processes within it. Genesis declares that God created. Your theory of unguided origins has not disproved Him. If you want to debate science, present evidence and defend your reasoning. Stop confusing ridicule, authority, and philosophical naturalism with scientific proof.

If someone killed Dave Chapelle for speaking his mind, I wouldn't feel better. But even if I would, I wouldn't say so. Some ugly thoughts are far better left unsaid. Dave Chapelle has made the world an uglier place by saying what he never should have said. I hope he sees that.

Michigan’s governor-elect, Jocelyn Benson, tapped a Nation of Islam leader who has pushed antisemitic conspiracy theories, referred to Jews as “the enemy,” and promotes Nation of Islam literature that forbids interracial relationships to serve on her gubernatorial transition council.