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Thursday, September 17, 2015

Homo naledi

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Perhaps you've heard of the recent discovery of a cache of hominin (human-like) bones in a remote, almost inaccessible cave in South Afr...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Naturalism and Nihilism

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French existential philosopher Jean Paul Sartre once wrote that existentialism is nothing else but an attempt to take atheism to its logica...
Tuesday, September 15, 2015

We're With You

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When I first heard about this ad from Hillary Clinton I thought it was something from The Onion or some other satirical website, but, no, i...
Monday, September 14, 2015

The Hummingbird's Tongue

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One of the most amazing creatures in the world is the tiny hummingbird. It's unique even among birds. The smallest birds hummingbirds an...
Saturday, September 12, 2015

Letter to a Young Girl

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Some years ago I had occasion to write a letter to my just barely teen-age daughter on the subject of happiness. I subsequently posted it on...
Friday, September 11, 2015

Science Quiz

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The Pew Research organization has a 12 question exam to test your scientific acumen. A survey of 3,278 adults in the U.S. found that, overa...
Thursday, September 10, 2015

Decline

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When I was in high school one of my teachers said something that has stuck with me ever since. He said that my generation, the boomer genera...
Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Black Holes

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Australian cosmologist Luke Barnes answers eight questions submitted to him by a young student about black holes. If you've ever wondere...
Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Birthright Citizenship

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Set aside whatever negative opinions you might have about Ann Coulter and just objectively consider the case she makes out for the claim tha...
Monday, September 7, 2015

The Refugee Crisis

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The tragic flood of refugees pouring into Europe is not without its ironies. Muslim refugees from Muslim wars and tyrants are paying all the...
Saturday, September 5, 2015

Why I'm Not a Trumpster

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Jonah Goldberg at NRO makes the conservative case against Donald Trump. A summary of his case may go something like this: You can be a cons...
Friday, September 4, 2015

American Justice

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So Kimberly Davis must go to jail for refusing to issue licenses to gay couples who wish to marry. It's a difficult situation. She swor...
Thursday, September 3, 2015

Spooky

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The universe is a very strange place, stranger than we can imagine. One of the strangest things about it is something Albert Einstein once r...
Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Bad Deal

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Amid news that the Obama administration has secured enough Democratic votes in the Senate to sustain an Obama veto of the Senate's expec...
Tuesday, September 1, 2015

On Miracles

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Philosopher Hans Halverson of Princeton offers a provocative piece on miracles at Slate . Halverson believes that it's rational to belie...
Monday, August 31, 2015

What Was So Offensive?

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Someone will have to explain to me what it was about what Curt Schilling said that is so outrageous that it merited even a reprimand let alo...
Saturday, August 29, 2015

Birthright Citizenship

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The "birthright citizenship" contretemps has elicited a lot of hypocritical posturing among the lefties and few are as good at ske...
Friday, August 28, 2015

Next Phase in the Culture War

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People sometimes scoff at the notion that here in America we're deeply immersed in a "culture war." Well, pace those who disa...
Thursday, August 27, 2015

Scientism

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This past summer I read Alex Rosenberg's The Atheist's Guide to Reality in which he unequivocally promotes a scientistic view of kn...
Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Stem Cell Triumph

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There's been much debate over the past few decades about the moral propriety of stem cell research. The problem has been that researcher...