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Friday, March 15, 2013

Free Thinking

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For the last two or three centuries religious skeptics have been pleased to refer to themselves by the self-flattering term "freethinke...
Thursday, March 14, 2013

Like Us

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Have I mentioned lately that I have a book out (Follow above link to In the Absence of God )? Now you can help get the word out by "lik...

Cultural Chauvinism

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We sometimes hear the claim, though not as often as formerly, that all cultures are equally worth celebrating and that it's chauvinistic...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

For Logophiles

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A friend forwarded me a delightful piece titled Twenty English Words That Should Make a Comeback . The words have passed into obsolecence an...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013

It's Come to This

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A seven year old Maryland boy was recently punished by school administrators for the crime of having sculpted a pop tart into the form of a ...

Absence Featured in Sunday Paper

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Sarah Chain does a column on books for the local paper, and she did a piece for last Sunday's edition on my novel In the Absence of God...
Monday, March 11, 2013

An Innate Disposition Toward Theism?

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Big Questions Online has an interesting topic this month. Justin Barrett asks whether belief in God - or rather, is receptivity to belief ...
Saturday, March 9, 2013

Something From Nothing

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Lawrence Krauss, author of A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing , is an atheist cosmologist at pains in his b...
Friday, March 8, 2013

Is Liberalism Doomed Or Is the Country?

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Former Delaware governor Pete DuPont argues that the liberal coalition which seems ascendent in today's politics is actually doomed to ...
Thursday, March 7, 2013

The Passing of a Bad Man

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Hugo Chavez, the autocratic semi-dictator of Venezuela has died and bizarrely (or maybe expectedly ) the left mourns. The usual suspects a...

Slouching Toward Tyranny

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We must seriously fear for our country when 41% of Democrats , the party of American liberals, believe that the president should be able to ...
Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Metaphysics and Science

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A decade or so ago Dover, PA became internationally famous because the local school board inserted mention into high school biology classes ...
Tuesday, March 5, 2013

One Percenters

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Does the top one percent make too much money in our society? The message of this video is that they certainly do. The video has for obvious ...
Monday, March 4, 2013

Somethin' Happenin' Here

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Two articles in Science Daily remind me of the lyrics from the old Buffalo Springfield song from the 60s: "There's somethin' ha...

The Cosmic Fine-Tuning Argument

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The argument for a cosmic Designer based on a phenomenon called cosmic fine-tuning is one of the most psychologically compelling and breatht...
Saturday, March 2, 2013

Extra Dimensions

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Scientists, or at least some of them, believe that the universe may consist of as many as eleven dimensions - the three with which we are fa...

Nixonian

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Democratic pollster Pat Caddell who served numerous Democratic presidential and vice-presidential candidates, writes that Barack Obama is ...
Friday, March 1, 2013

Why Politicians Are Despised

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About five weeks ago I did a post titled " No Exchanges, No Obamacare " which explained that if states refused to create the insur...
Thursday, February 28, 2013

Peter and the Darwinian Wolves

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Peter Hitchens, brother of the famous atheist Christopher, is himself as unlike his late brother in his theological commitments as could be....
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Give Him the Knife

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Mandatory spending cuts are set to kick in on Friday and Mr. Obama continues to forecast woe and debacle. It's a lot like the Y2K scare....