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Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Why They're Leaving (Pt. II)

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Yesterday's post addressed the fact that Christian congregations are both aging and shrinking as more young people opt out, and we talke...
Monday, July 10, 2023

Why They're Leaving (Pt.I)

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Christianity appears to be in trouble. Young people are leaving the church in large numbers. Seventy percent of young people raised in the c...
Saturday, July 8, 2023

Why Our Moon Is Almost a Miracle

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Astronomer Hugh Ross, in a 2014 article at Salvo, discussed some of the current theories on the formation of our moon. Those theories posit...
Friday, July 7, 2023

Another Welcome Court Decision

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The recent SCOTUS decisions affirming freedom of religion and speech and ending affirmative action were certainly noteworthy and welcome, bu...
Thursday, July 6, 2023

Fireflies

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On Monday I mentioned that sexual reproduction poses a very difficult problem for Darwinian evolutionists who believe that such a process de...
Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Completely Missing the Point

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It is simply false to assert, as many critics are doing, that 303 Creative v. Elenis means that Christians can deny services to LGBT folk. ...
Tuesday, July 4, 2023

Happy Birthday America (Whatever's Left of You)

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Monday, July 3, 2023

The Miracle of Sexual Reproduction

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One of the most difficult things to explain in biology is the appearance of sexual reproduction. Lots of organisms reproduce asexually and t...
Saturday, July 1, 2023

A Step Toward the Color-blind Ideal

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The Supreme Court's decision to rule in favor of Students For Fair Admission ( SFFA v. Harvard ) and end the practice of affirmative act...
Friday, June 30, 2023

The Cost of Mitigating the Effects of Global Warming

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Bjorn Lomberg is a social scientist who focuses on the economics of climate change. He acknowledges that global warming is real, that it...
Thursday, June 29, 2023

Looking Foolish

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Yesterday I mentioned that liberals like Mr. Biden display an astonishing lack of self-awareness, dishonesty and/or hypocrisy when they expr...
Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Those Dastardly MAGA Book-Banners

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The American left seems to be living in a fantasy land. President Biden recently warned us all that "MAGA extremists" are lining u...
Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Are We Alone in the Cosmos?

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This is the second of two posts on the question of extraterrestrial life, especially intelligent life. Yesterday's post addressed the qu...
Monday, June 26, 2023

Theological Implications of Discovering Extraterrestrial Life

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A reader interested in some of the controversy surrounding the space rock Oumuamua and whether the apparent rock is, as some have speculate...
Saturday, June 24, 2023

Justice for All (Except ...)

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A column by the Wall Street Journal's Kimberley Strassel leads one to conclude that anyone who defends either the current DOJ, IRS or th...
Friday, June 23, 2023

Scientism and Our Modern Madness

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A classic work by Michael Aeschliman on C.S. Lewis has been reissued under the title The Restoration of Man: C.S. Lewis and the Continuing C...
Thursday, June 22, 2023

Dred and Harriet Scott

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Most school students learn, or at least used to learn, that opposition to slavery mushroomed in the northern states with the Dred Scott Sup...
Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Confirmation of Two Creationist Predictions about Origins

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Long time readers of VP will know that I'm agnostic about much that has to do with the so-called Creation-Evolution debate. I do stake...
Tuesday, June 20, 2023

The African Slave Trade Is Still Flourishing

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Charles Jacobs is the president of the American Anti-Slavery Group. A few years ago he wrote a very important and interesting piece for The...
Monday, June 19, 2023

Our Nation Needs Strong Fathers

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When David Blankenhorn's Fatherless America came out in 1995 it became an instant classic on the importance of men to the well-being of...