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Thursday, December 15, 2016

The GOP's Political Hegemony

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In 2008 pundits were declaring the Republican party to be all but dead. The future, we were told, is with the Democrats, particularly becaus...
Wednesday, December 14, 2016

The Future of the Unskilled Worker

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Here's a short but fascinating video that shows us what's coming for retailers, shoppers, and minimum wage earners: When this te...
Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Gift Suggestion (Pt. II)

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Yesterday I urged readers to consider my novel In the Absence of God (2012) as a possible Christmas gift and mentioned in passing its compa...
Monday, December 12, 2016

Christmas Gift Suggestion (Pt. I)

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Is there someone on your Christmas shopping list you think might enjoy reading a novel which blends philosophy, religion, and a crime story ...
Saturday, December 10, 2016

Revolutionary

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One of the most prominent scientists in the development of the theory of Intelligent Design is Lehigh University biochemist Michael Behe. Be...
Friday, December 9, 2016

Intentionality and Materialism

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Many people believe that human beings are a composite of both mental and material substance. This view is called substance dualism and among...
Thursday, December 8, 2016

Cellular Choreography

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In my classes we've been looking at the design argument for the existence of God. One aspect of the argument is based on the amazing fac...
Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Fine-Tuned Universes and the Multiverse

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Physicist Leonard Susskind once claimed that there are only two live options for explaining the amazing precision in the structure of the u...
Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Return to Cosmic Specialness

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Howard A. Smith is a lecturer in the Harvard University Department of Astronomy and a senior astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Cente...
Monday, December 5, 2016

More on the Death of Fidel

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When Cuban dictator Fidel Castro died last week I did a post (11/28/16) titled A Tyrant Has Passed in which was mentioned some of the many ...
Saturday, December 3, 2016

Fine-Tuning Made Simple

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Philosopher of science Robin Collins is one of the world's foremost authorities on cosmic fine-tuning, a topic that has popped up on Vie...
Friday, December 2, 2016

Soul Survival

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Usually when people talk about the soul and life beyond the death of the physical body they draw looks of incredulity and even scorn from fa...
Thursday, December 1, 2016

No Follow-Up Attack

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Why was there no significant follow-up attack by Islamists after their devastating attack on 9/11? The man who interrogated the terrorist wh...
Wednesday, November 30, 2016

The Alt Right Is Not All Right

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Denyse O'Leary writing at Mercator Net notes that the media has become fixated during this election season on a group calling itself th...
Tuesday, November 29, 2016

A Theory in Crisis

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The Spectator, a weekly British political magazine, has published a column in which various contributors list their "best books" o...
Monday, November 28, 2016

A Tyrant Has Passed

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Young people might be wondering why Miami's Cuban community is jubilant at news of the death of Fidel Castro, the Cuban President for L...
Saturday, November 26, 2016

Readers

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The Pew Research Center has some dispiriting news for those concerned about the future of the American republic: About a quarter of Ameri...
Friday, November 25, 2016

12%

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One of the pressing questions bedeviling political observers in the wake of the recent election has been why so many people whose values see...
Thursday, November 24, 2016

Thanksgiving Wishes

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I'd like on this Thanksgiving Day to wish all of our readers a wonderful holiday and to express my hope that we'll all take time to ...
Wednesday, November 23, 2016

How Thanksgiving Became a National Holiday

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Ever since the presidency of George Washington Americans had been celebrating days of thanksgiving, but they had been declared mostly by the...