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Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Why We Celebrate St. Patrick's Day

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Millions of Americans, many of them descendents of Irish immigrants, will celebrate their Irish heritage by observing St. Patrick's Day ...
Tuesday, March 16, 2021

The Cult of Wokeness

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In the course of a book review at First Things theology professor James Keating gives a helpful summation of why "Woke culture" s...
Monday, March 15, 2021

Fighting Off Viruses - Biological and Metaphysical

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The BBC has a short video out that shows how the cell defends itself against viruses. It's a two step process in which one protein ident...
Saturday, March 13, 2021

The Star Spangled Banner

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A friend forwarded this short video to me, and I thought it'd be good to share it. It explains when and how the custom of playing the St...
Friday, March 12, 2021

Close-up Magic

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This guy is absolutely amazing. He's a French magician named Yann Frisch, and his performance with cups and balls was a sensation a de...
Thursday, March 11, 2021

Darwin's Racism

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Well, since the left is in a "canceling" mood, and everyone who exhibits the slightest taint of white supremacy is being condemned...
Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Our Least Trusted Professionals

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In a column titled The Media's Miserable Record on Getting it Right National Review's Jim Geraghty includes this tidbit: The Civil...
Tuesday, March 9, 2021

PC Logic

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It seems like every day brings new examples of the politically correct beclowning themselves. Here's just the latest : Dr. Seuss Enterp...
Monday, March 8, 2021

Cancel Culture and Moral Preening

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We are living at a very strange time, a time when our culture seems to be under assault by howling mobs of self-righteous, empty-headed prog...
Saturday, March 6, 2021

How Christianity Has Messed Up Science

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One of the enduring myths in secular circles is that religious belief has always been in conflict with scientific advance. Historians have r...
Friday, March 5, 2021

Carl Sagan's Inadvertent Justification of Belief in God

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It's not uncommon to hear religious believers criticized for holding beliefs they can't empirically demonstrate to be true, or at le...
Thursday, March 4, 2021

Humanism and Nihilism

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Philosopher William Lane Craig once wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post, of all places, in which he succinctly explained a crucial problem...
Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Leftists, Liberals and Conservatives

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Dennis Prager offers 32 questions which serve to distinguish progressives or leftists from liberals and conservatives. He believes that lib...
Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Believing What You Know Ain't true

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The title of the post comes from Mark Twain who offered it as his tongue-in-cheek definition of "faith." I thought of it as I read...
Monday, March 1, 2021

Child Brides and Moral Confusion

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I finally got around over the last several weeks to watching the Netflix series Designated Survivor . I very much enjoyed season one despite...
Saturday, February 27, 2021

On the Meaning of Life

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One of the themes in my book In the Absence of God (See the link at the top of this page) is that if naturalism is true, i.e. if there'...
Friday, February 26, 2021

Basing Morality on Human Flourishing

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Philosopher Sam Harris is often identified as a "New Atheist," one of a number of prominent thinkers who have undertaken to discre...
Thursday, February 25, 2021

My Woke Friends Are Right

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Like you, probably, I have some woke acquaintances who like to remind me that the United States is racist both personally and structurally a...
Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Climate Predictions

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Good scientific theories are subject to the outcome of predictions which means that good theories are risky because if the predictions turn ...
Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Journalistic Credibility

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Why do contemporary journalists have so little credibility with so much of the public? Barton Swaim at the Wall Street Journal gives us a cl...