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Saturday, December 30, 2006

Dissenting From the Vatican

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I have a great deal of respect for the Catholic church and for the ethical thinking it produces, but these statements from the Vatican on t...

Is ID Testable?

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Intelligent Design is often criticized for being untestable. There is no experiment, the argument goes, that we can imagine that might give ...

The Kalam Cosmological Argument

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Joe Carter offers a good discussion of what is called the Kalam Cosmological argument for the existence of God promoted most notably by phi...
Friday, December 29, 2006

The End

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News outlets are reporting that Saddam has been executed . I watched Alan Colmes and others argue tonight that executing him was unnecessary...

Tonight's the Night

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Evidently Saddam will sometime tonight be sent to stand before God to give an account for the horrors he inflicted on so many hundreds of t...

George Weigel's Best Five

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Catholic writer George Weigel lists for the Wall Street Journal what he considers to be the five best books for understanding Christian...

The War Against the West

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A reader points out that we must be careful when we condemn the Muslim perpetrators of atrocities not to give the impression that we are con...
Thursday, December 28, 2006

Ethiopia and Somalia

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Below much of the American media's radar Ethiopia has joined non-Muslim Somali forces to defeat the Islamic Courts which had taken over ...

An Atheist's Pilgrimage (Pt. II)

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On Tuesday we alluded to the account by Gary Wolf of Wired who shares with us his quest to find kinship among the "New Atheists....

Genuine Faith

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I suppose this is a good thing, but I just can't help wondering how genuine one's faith is if you have to hire people to advise you...
Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Gerald R. Ford (1913-2006)

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Gary Varvel

Heading into the Past

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Byron passes along an article by James Howard Kunstler, writing for Orion Magazine , who argues that because so much of our present culture...

Ideas Have Offspring

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Christianity Today has a review by Edward Oakes of Richard Weikart's new book From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, an...
Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Markets and the Family

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The family and free markets are perhaps two important arenas of American life where conservatives have had a consistent and credible voice, ...

Carrier Landing

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So you say you'd like to be a Navy pilot? Well, landing jets on moving aircraft carriers is not an easy job as this video from the Brit...

An Atheist's Pilgrimage (Pt. I)

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Gary Wolf has a very interesting essay at Wired in which he discusses his wish to join the ranks of the militant anti-theists who have come...
Sunday, December 24, 2006

True Fiction

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A man named Michael, a father of a teenage daughter, Jennifer, had been a member of a top-secret anti-terrorism task force in the military a...

Producing Good Kids

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I wonder what the Brits who signed that petition calling for legislation that would make it illegal for parents to instruct their children ...
Saturday, December 23, 2006

Why He's Special

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Last Christmas we ran the following post and thought it might be good to do it again this year with a few minor edits: Why do the words o...

Neville Baker

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It can now be revealed that there was a secret meeting between James Baker and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that is believed to be behind Baker's...