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Monday, November 13, 2006

God Almost Certainly Does Not Exist

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At least that's what atheistic Darwinian Richard Dawkins tells us in this article excerpted from his new book The God Delusion . Dawk...

Keep Hope Alive

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Ed Whelan at The Ethics and Public Policy Center argues that despite Democratic control of the Senate President Bush still has a good chanc...

Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing, Baby

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Gary Varvel explains why the Republicans got a "thumpin'" last Tuesday: If the voters are given a choice between Republi...
Sunday, November 12, 2006

Another Piece From Murray

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Following up on last Sunday's post More on Murray , here's more perspective on the parable of the vine and the branches. Abide In ...
Saturday, November 11, 2006

The Reason Why

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Why have there been no terrorist attacks in the U.S. since 9/11? It's certainly not that the terrorists haven't been trying. Harold ...

A Giant Christmas Ball

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That's what earth looks like in this photo taken from space, apparently with cloud cover removed: It's beautiful in a way, but ...

Craig vs. Ehrman

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One of the top Christian philosophers debated a professor of religious history at Holy Cross last March on the topic "Is There Historic...
Friday, November 10, 2006

Hypocrisy and Gay-ness

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First Things has two fine pieces on the Ted Haggard fiasco. The first, by Robert Miller , is a meditation on hypocrisy and an explanation w...

New Neuroscience Blog

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Denyse O'Leary has started a new blog, called The Mindful Hack , dedicated to discussion of issues surrounding the nature of mind and th...

Betraying the Base

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The far left George Soros, Michael Moore wing of the Democratic party is soon going to conclude that it's been had, and they're not ...
Thursday, November 9, 2006

The Current State of Strings

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Those of you interested in the esoterica of modern physics might like to read this article by Brian Greene, a professor of physics and math...

Military Deaths in Perspective

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The number of Americans killed in Iraq continues to climb and October was a particularly awful month with the number of dead hovering at a l...

Dennett Defies Death and Denies Deity

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Daniel Dennett, the famous atheistic Darwinian philosopher from Tufts University, has recently suffered a life-threatening heart problem. He...
Wednesday, November 8, 2006

Stem Cell Breakthrough

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Another potential breakthrough involving stem cells has emerged in England. This time as a treatment for heart attack victims. The stem cell...

Thoughts on the Debacle

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Yesterday's electoral results were dispiriting for those who believe, as I do, that conservative principles are generally much better fo...
Tuesday, November 7, 2006

This Week's Feedback

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A number of readers' comments on last week's posts are featured on our Feedback Page. Give 'em a look.

Why Major in Philosophy?

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This is a post I put up about a year ago and which I'd like to re-post because a number of students have asked what I thought the advant...

The Road

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I recently picked up Cormac McCarthy's latest novel titled The Road . It's a story about a man and his son, neither of whose names w...

Believing in God

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Atheistic philosopher Ken Taylor is puzzled that smart people can still believe in God in a technological age. The fact that we live in t...
Monday, November 6, 2006

The Plausibility of Life

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Jonathan Wells at Books and Culture reviews a new book on evo devo (evolutionary development)which purports to solve some of the last major...