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Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Pandemic Hypocrisy

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John Daniel Davidson, political editor at The Federalist, argues that, should a second wave of coronavirus infections strike us this Fall, ...
Monday, June 22, 2020

Naturalism's Daunting Difficulty

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Within the last fifty years, and especially the last twenty, the belief that nature is all there is (i.e. naturalism) and that everything i...
Saturday, June 20, 2020

For Father's Day

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When David Blankenhorn's  Fatherless America  came out in 1995 it became an instant classic on the importance of men to the well-being o...
Friday, June 19, 2020

What the Third World Owes to Missionaries

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I find myself often referring in conversation with friends to Rodney Stark's excellent book titled  How the West Won . Like all his book...
Thursday, June 18, 2020

The Gorsuch Opinion

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Set aside for a moment your views on homosexuality, gay marriage and transgenderism, whatever those views may be, and consider the argument ...
Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Do Minds Exist and Does it Matter?

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Physicalism is the view that everything in the universe, including us, can be explained in terms of physical laws such as the laws of phys...
Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Why All This Has Happened

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A friend remarked recently that it seems as if we're reliving the conditions that prevailed in 1917 in Russia and 1789 in France and whi...
Monday, June 15, 2020

Shelby Steele

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An article at The Federalist discusses an interview that appeared on Fox News with Shelby Steele, an author of several books on race in Amer...
Saturday, June 13, 2020

Penfield's Conversion to Dualism

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Wilder Penfield was a pioneering neurosurgeon at the University of Montreal during the middle decades of the twentieth century who started o...
Friday, June 12, 2020

The Eye

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For about the last century or so Darwinian naturalists have cited the eye's design as evidence  against  the existence of an intelligent...
Thursday, June 11, 2020

Post-Death Experiences

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Near Death Experiences (NDEs), or what should probably be called "After Death Experiences," are becoming much better documented an...
Wednesday, June 10, 2020

A Contingent World

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Several years ago cosmologists Geraint Lewis and Luke Barnes wrote an excellent book titled  A Fortunate Universe: Life in a Finely-Tuned Un...
Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Drink the Kool-Aid

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An essay by Chad Sanders could easily be ignored as the ranting of a narcissistic crank were it not published as an op-ed in the prestigious...
Monday, June 8, 2020

Some Thoughts on the Recent Troubles

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There've been numerous demands for justice this past week, a circumstance which is not a little ironic.  After all, we live in a society...
Saturday, June 6, 2020

Are Black Men Really Being Hunted?

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Of all the stupidities dished out to us by the media in the last week, surely among the most fatuous was a comment by MSNBC's Joy Reid t...