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Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Revolutions French and American

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As America and France celebrated the anniversaries of their respective revolutions this month several commentators reflected on similarities...
Monday, July 16, 2018

Amazing Cephalopods

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We've posted this wonderful video on Viewpoint in the past, but I thought newer readers might like to see it because it raises some fasc...
Saturday, July 14, 2018

Fading Habit

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A friend told me the other day of a dinner to which he and his wife had been invited along with several other couples, all of whom were very...
Friday, July 13, 2018

The Teenage Princess

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I ran across this old post in the archives and thought it'd be worth posting again: One of the charming quirks in the behavior of young...
Thursday, July 12, 2018

Walk Away

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The Democratic Party seems to be facing a significant defection among disillusioned, white millennials. An online movement titled Walk Away...
Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Our Students' Broken Moral Compass

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High school teacher Paul Barnwell had an article in The Atlantic a couple of years ago in which he expressed deep concern for the lack of m...
Tuesday, July 10, 2018

God Help Brett Kavanaugh

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President Trump has nominated Brett Kavanaugh, a jurist who believes that decisions should be based on what the Constitution says and not on...
Monday, July 9, 2018

Katie's Soul

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Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor has a fine piece at Plough.com in which he argues against the materialist view that we are simply material being...
Saturday, July 7, 2018

On Beauty

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Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict) often said that the two best arguments for the truth of the Christian faith are the lives of...
Friday, July 6, 2018

The President's Next Pick

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President Trump will announce his next pick for the Supreme Court on Monday, and there's swelling panic among those who fear that Mr. Tr...
Thursday, July 5, 2018

Conjectures and Refutations

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A story at Phys.org discussed a recent paper which, I should've thought, would have created shock waves among scientists and philosophe...
Wednesday, July 4, 2018

On the Fourth of July

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Today many Americans will celebrate their Independence Day, the day set aside to commemorate the signing of our Declaration of Independence ...
Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Freely Confused

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At a neuroscience blog called TheNess Steven Novella shares some thoughts about free will, meaning and morality, and either he's confus...
Monday, July 2, 2018

Agnostic Agonistes

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One of the most famous astronomers of the twentieth century, Robert Jastrow, discusses the struggle he had in reconciling his scientific mat...
Saturday, June 30, 2018

Our Amazing World

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Here's a brief video from Lad Allen that presents some amazing facts about the number of stars in our universe, the number of grains of ...
Friday, June 29, 2018

Sowing and Reaping

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So Justice Anthony Kennedy is retiring from the Supreme Court at the end of July and the left is in a panic over the prospect of President T...
Thursday, June 28, 2018

It's a Mystery

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I filched some of the following post from philosopher V.J. Torley at Uncommon Descent . He has some interesting things to say about Dr. Jame...
Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Improbable Things Happen All the Time

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It's pretty much accepted on all sides of the theism/naturalism debate that a life-permitting universe existing by chance is astronomica...
Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Progressive Bigotry

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Being a progressive means never having to worry about being consistent. On the heels of revelations that MSNBC's premier progressive an...
Monday, June 25, 2018

Undeniable

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Among biologists, and indeed anyone interested in the question of life's origin, there are, broadly, two live options. The first, the re...