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Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Avoiding a Cosmic Beginning

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Ross Pomeroy has a brief column at Real Clear Science in which he argues that the Big Bang theory of cosmogenesis (the origin of the univer...
Monday, May 14, 2018

Noble Savages?

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A frequently heard claim is that white Europeans stole the land in North and South America from innocent bucolic Indians living peacefully i...
Saturday, May 12, 2018

How Western Missionaries Blessed the World

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I not infrequently find myself referring in conversation with friends to Rodney Stark's excellent book titled How the West Won . Like al...
Friday, May 11, 2018

A Movie Running Backwards

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A student recently found old post in the archive and I thought I'd re-post it: There is a universally accepted principle of thought wh...
Thursday, May 10, 2018

Suicide of the West

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I'm currently very much enjoying Jonah Goldberg's excellent new release Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism,...
Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Scolding Evangelicals

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David French has written a rather scathing open letter at NRO, chastizing evangelical Christians who support or defend President Trump. He...
Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Engineering Genius

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I've shown this video to some of my classes in the past because it's so well done. Drew Berry is an animator who creates computer ge...
Monday, May 7, 2018

Obama's Disastrous Deal

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President Trump has until May 12th to decide whether to renew the Iranian nuclear deal worked out by Secretary of State John Kerry and signe...
Saturday, May 5, 2018

51%

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A couple of politically relevant records were tied or set this week. First, President Trump's approval ranking in the Rasmussen Reports ...
Friday, May 4, 2018

The Cause of All Contingent Entities

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I recently featured a post on Viewpoint on cosmic fine-tuning and the multiverse hypothesis ( here and here ) and was reminded of a book I ...
Thursday, May 3, 2018

Four (Relatively) Short Questions

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1. Why does the left think that rivers and animals should have rights but unborn human beings don't? 2. If (and it's a big "...
Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Modern Moralizing

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In a recent article at The Federalist John Daniel Davidson draws a pertinent distinction between moralizing and being moral . The essay ...
Tuesday, May 1, 2018

The Multiverse Reply

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Yesterday's post on fine-tuning concluded with a question as to how someone who's skeptical of the existence of a cosmic designer mi...
Monday, April 30, 2018

How Scientific Discovery Points to a Cosmic Designer

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Writer Eric Metaxas presents a brief but cogent version of the fine-tuning argument for the existence of God in a Prager University video. I...
Saturday, April 28, 2018

Death Panels

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For a frightening glimpse of what socialized medical care, such as that which the Obama administration and the Democratic party imposed upon...
Friday, April 27, 2018

A Problem with Positivism

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A commenter at another blog expresses the basic tenet of the materialist philosophy called positivism . By way of dismissing a biological th...
Thursday, April 26, 2018

Euthyphro's Dilemma Pt. III

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Yesterday we took a look at the challenge posed by the Euthyphro Dilemma to those who believe that God's existence is a necessary condit...
Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Euthyphro's Dilemma Pt. II

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Many philosophy students find themselves confronted with the Euthyphro dilemma, a problem often posed to convince them that God's existe...
Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Euthyphro's Dilemma Pt. I

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There's a strong case to be made for the claim that if theism is false there are no objective moral duties. If there are no objective mo...
Monday, April 23, 2018

Aspiring to the Life of the Mind

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In an interesting - and rather unusual - piece in First Things Paul Griffiths gives advice to young people aspiring to the intellectual lif...