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Wednesday, May 17, 2017

It's Just a Bad Idea

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Erielle Davidson is an economic research assistant at the Hoover Institution in Palo Alto, California. In a column at The Federalist cites ...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

How We Got Here

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Philosopher W.T. Stace writing in The Atlantic Monthly in 1948 gives a concise summary of how we came to be where we are in the modern world...
Monday, May 15, 2017

The End of Science

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In article at Evolution News Denyse O'Leary argues that metaphysical naturalism, the view that the cosmos is all there is, all there eve...
Saturday, May 13, 2017

Consciousness and Nonsense

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Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, in a column at The Week, observes that arguments surrounding human consciousness comprise one of the most animated ...
Friday, May 12, 2017

Comey Deserved it

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Last October, right before the election, FBI Director James Comey detonated a nuclear chain reaction of caterwauling among Democrats when he...
Thursday, May 11, 2017

Treat Everyone Equally

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Historically he civil rights movement was largely a struggle to gain equal opportunity for minorities. All that was being asked for was a ch...
Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Supreme Incoherence

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Here's a puzzler: The Supreme Court, which ruled in Obergefell (2015) that gay marriage was henceforth legal in the United States, decl...
Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Intolerance Left and Right

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An article at Politico discusses research that shows that intolerance is a human trait that neither conservatives nor liberals have a monop...
Monday, May 8, 2017

FGM

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Here's a shocking statistic: Approximately 500,000 young girls in the U.S. have been subjected to FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) or are...
Saturday, May 6, 2017

How Many Share These Views?

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Imagine you were to discover that millions of people in this country believed that there's nothing wrong with slavery per se , that men ...
Thursday, May 4, 2017

Materialist Taxonomy

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Eric Anderson at Uncommon Descent presents an interesting analysis of metaphysical materialism, or, more precisely, the different forms mat...
Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Mathematics Takes a Mind

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Physicist Sir James Jeans, contemplating the fact that the universe seems so astonishingly conformable to mathematics, once remarked that Go...
Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Human Rights and Other Weighty Topics

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In my novels In the Absence of God and Bridging the Abyss (See the links at the top of this page) I make the argument that belief in objec...
Monday, May 1, 2017

Bigotry

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Princeton bioethicist Peter Singer has made a name for himself as an advocate of infanticide, that is he believes a mother should have the r...
Friday, April 28, 2017

Roommate Discrimination

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This is somewhat disappointing. A survey at Dartmouth College found that students who identified as Democrats are much less willing to room...
Thursday, April 27, 2017

Dubious Heritage

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Quick question: If you had to name the political party in the U.S. which has historically been home to supporters of forced sterilization a...
Wednesday, April 26, 2017

The Templeton Prize

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It has recently been announced that philosopher Alvin Plantinga has been awarded the prestigious Templeton Prize for 2017. The prize is v...
Tuesday, April 25, 2017

The Decline of the West

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David Brooks at The New York Times offers  some thoughtful opinions on the vigor and viability of Western civilization. Much of what he wri...
Monday, April 24, 2017

Stop Digging

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Democrats (and everybody else, probably) are doubtless stunned by the news that a recent WaPo/ABC poll shows that if there was a do-over el...
Saturday, April 22, 2017

Naturalism and Ethics

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VJ Torley at Uncommon Descent comments on a passage from Thomas Huxley's essay Evolution and Ethics (1893) in which Huxley, otherwise ...