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Tuesday, June 5, 2007

The Edge of Evolution

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This link takes you to a video that shows transport proteins moving along a cilium (It's called a flagellum at the site) in an alga ca...

The Iranian Gambit

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seems to be trying to provoke Israel into an attack upon Iran as this NewsMax story suggests: Iran's hard-line P...

The Atheist's Con

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Johann Hari , an anti-theist leftist, is in a quandary about Tony Blair's successor as British prime minister, Gordon Brown. Apparently ...
Monday, June 4, 2007

Gonzalez Appeal Rejected

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Iowa State astronomy professor Guillermo Gonzalez has had his appeal of the decision to deny him tenure rejected by university president Gr...

Tyranny vs. Free Speech

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Like tyrants and tyrant-wannabes everywhere, whether on American college campuses, North Korea or the old Soviet Union, Hugo Chavez of Venez...

Divisive Issue

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The editors of National Review Online have challenged the editors of the Wall Street Journal to a public debate on the merits of the pend...
Sunday, June 3, 2007

Re: Reducing Poverty

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Byron offers some comment on, and criticism of, Saturday's post titled Reducing Poverty . His thoughts can be read on our Feedback page....

Thought For A Sunday

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Earlier this week I stumbled across a 2x3 card that the church I attend gives out after each service. This particular one was from last Oct...
Saturday, June 2, 2007

Reducing Poverty

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Jim Wallis of Sojourners (available by subscription) believes that poverty can be dramatically reduced both at home and across the globe: ...

Atheist Taxonomy

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Joe Carter claims that there are four kinds of atheists : Disproof atheists, Methodological atheists, Mystical atheists, and Faith athei...

Preparing for War , Again

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Hamas has launched a total of 310 rockets at the Israeli town of Sderot in the last couple of weeks, but Israel has done little to stop it....
Friday, June 1, 2007

Bush Bashes His Base

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If you are a conservative and/or a Republican then Peggy Noonan's latest column is a must-read. It essentially discusses why the admini...

More Hitchens vs. Wilson

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The debate between atheist Christopher Hitchens and theologian Douglas Wilson continues at Christianity Today with part IV and V. Hitch...
Thursday, May 31, 2007

Hitler's Religion

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I and a friend who I would describe as a somewhat pallid deist (almost an atheist) have been enjoying a sporadic dialogue by e-mail over the...

Cindy Sheehan

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Gary Randall of Faith and Freedom Network and Foundation hits all the right notes in his commentary on Cindy Sheehan's departure from t...

Conservative Primers

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For the political philosophers among our readers, and those just interested in the history of political thought, probably the best way to ga...
Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Why Do People Resist Science?

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Paul Bloom and Deena Skolnick Weisberg ask in an article at Edge , why some people, perhaps a lot of people, resist science. I think the ...

Soda Is Very Bad For You

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This will make your day. It turns out that a common additive in Coke, Diet Pepsi, and other soft drinks is believed to cause damage to the D...

Quantum Theory

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I may have mentioned this before but the March issue of First Things has a particularly clear exposition by Stephen Barr on quantum theory....
Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Cyber-Terrorism

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England's Daily Mail offers a cyber-threat scenario which security experts say is almost certain to one day soon become a reality: ...