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Saturday, December 26, 2009

Silver Linings and Pedophilia

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Mary Eberstadt has an article in First Things titled "How Pedophilia Lost its Cool" in which she assesses the increasing intoler...

Kseniya Simonova

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You might have already seen this but if not you can't help being amazed at this girl's artistry. She was the winner of the 2009 Ukra...

Jihadi Rehab

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An air raid in Yemen Thursday morning is believed to have taken out thirty al Qaeda, including some pretty big fish. Among the latter were ...
Friday, December 25, 2009

Which Came First

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Some readers have noted similarities between the story of Michael in Why Christians Celebrate Christmas (see post below) and the movie Take...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Why Christians Celebrate Christmas

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In this season of shopping and feasting it's easy to lose sight of why Christians celebrate Christmas. The following allegory, which we...

Naturalism = Nihilism

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Like Marc Hauser, whose essay we critiqued earlier this week (see here for links), Alex Rosenberg is a naturalist. That is to say he's ...

Fruitflow

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Millions of people rely on aspirin to keep their blood thin to prevent heart attacks and strokes, but aspirin often causes stomach problems....

Silent Monks

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To help you get into the spirit of Christmas, sort of, a group of "silent monks" perform one of the greatest pieces of music ever ...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009

The Cosmos

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The American Museum of Natural History takes us on a quick tour of the known universe. Fasten your seat belts: Thanks to Bill Dembski ...

Change Nobody Believes in

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Maybe it's not too much of a stretch to estimate that there are about 280 Americans who favor ObamaCare. They're all Democrats and t...
Monday, December 21, 2009

Hentoff on Obama

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Nat Hentoff, no conservative Republican he (he wrote a weekly column for the Village Voice for fifty years), has some pretty strong words c...

Keep Your Opinions to Yourself

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We often hear complaints about those officious Christians who are always going about trying to impose their values, especially sexual values...

Is AARP Bought and Paid for?

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Michelle Malkin notes that AARP offers the only health coverage that under "ObamaCare" would be exempt from having to accept clie...
Saturday, December 19, 2009

Evolutionary Ethics (Part III)

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This post concludes our discussion of Marc Hauser's essay Biology (Not Religion) Equals Morality in which he attempts to argue that m...

Kiva

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A while ago we made brief mention of the increasing popularity of microfinance as a great way to help poor entrepreneurs get enough capital...
Friday, December 18, 2009

Fat Lips, Fat Heads

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In a post we did a week or so ago I mentioned the injustice of court martialing three navy SEALs who were accused of punching a terrorist an...

An Exact Science

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Since the filched emails from East Anglia were released a month ago we've come to learn a lot about the scientific method, at least as i...
Thursday, December 17, 2009

Evolutionary Ethics (Part II)

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This post continues our discussion of Marc Hauser's essay Biology (Not Religion) Equals Morality in which he attempts to argue that m...

Debunking the Shroud

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I don't know what to make of the Shroud of Turin, the famous burial cloth that bears the scientifically inexplicable imprint of a man wh...
Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Evolutionary Ethics (Part I)

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The idea that our moral sense is a product of human evolution has been around ever since Darwin, but in all those years it has never managed...