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Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Are We Alone?

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Prolific science writer and cosmologist Paul Davies asks in a recent NYT column whether we are all alone in the universe. He cites speculat...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Male Chauvinist Pigs

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It's common nowadays to hear the left bewail the "war on women" allegedly being waged by the right. People who don't follo...
Monday, November 18, 2013

Spear Tips and Speciation

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Scientists have found chiseled spear heads that predate the earliest known fossils of Homo sapiens by 85,000 years, a discovery which rais...
Saturday, November 16, 2013

A Bundle of Contradictions

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In the wake of the accumulating wreckage of the Obamacare rollout and millions of cancelled insurance policies, with millions more still to ...
Friday, November 15, 2013

Evolutionary Ethics

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VJ Torley at Uncommon Descent reminds us of a passage from Thomas Huxley's essay Evolution and Ethics (1893) in which Huxley, otherwis...
Thursday, November 14, 2013

World Leader by 2015

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As bad as the economy is, it's all poised to turn around if we don't kill the goose laying the golden eggs before the bird has a cha...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Operation Underground Railroad

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Glenn Beck related a story on his radio program yesterday morning that everyone should hear. It was about human trafficking of children to ...
Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Navigators

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The Affordable Care Act, which is producing huge premium and deductible increases when it's not causing people to lose their insurance a...
Monday, November 11, 2013

Veterans' Day

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National Review's Quin Hillyer reviews two books apropos for this Veteran's Day. One of the books, Damn Few: Making the Modern SEAL...
Saturday, November 9, 2013

The Interaction Problem

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I've run a few posts on the topic of mind and matter this past week, largely because we've been discussing it in my classes and the ...
Friday, November 8, 2013

Atheism and Nihilism

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French existential philosopher Jean Paul Sartre once wrote that existentialism is nothing else but an attempt to take atheism to its logical...
Thursday, November 7, 2013

Mind and Materialism

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Raymond Tallis at The New Atlantis discusses the devastating assault on philosophical materialism that began in the 1970s when American phi...
Wednesday, November 6, 2013

The Evolution of Consciousness

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One of the many problems consciousness poses for naturalism (the view that only the natural world exists. There is no supernature) is the di...
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Good at Killing People

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This report has created a bit of a controversy among those interested in plumbing President Obama's character and psyche: President Ba...
Monday, November 4, 2013

Gay Marriage and Other Arrangements

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Robert George at First Things shares some thoughts that tie in with our recent post at VP on polyamory. George writes: The logic of the s...
Saturday, November 2, 2013

Hawking's Hypocrisy

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Columnist Mona Charen observes that world famous physicist Stephen Hawking has decided to decline an invitation to speak in Israel after he...
Friday, November 1, 2013

Is it All Intentional?

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For some time now a number of commentators on the right, most notably Rush Limbaugh, have been insisting that the failures of the Obama adm...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

Mind or Matter

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One of the many fascinating questions being revived in today's philosophical debates is the question of the ultimate nature of reality. ...
Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Polyamory

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One of the first posts I ever wrote on Viewpoint back in May of 2004 was on why I think gay marriage is a very bad idea. The post was not mo...
Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Who's in Charge?

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The President doesn't seem to know anything more about what's going on in his own administration than anyone else who watches the ev...