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Saturday, December 7, 2024

Why Christians Celebrate Christmas

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In this season of shopping and feasting it's easy to lose sight of why Christmas is a special day. The following allegory, which we'...
Friday, December 6, 2024

An Unlivable Worldview

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In Alex Rosenberg's The Atheist's Guide to Reality the author unabashedly promotes a scientistic view of knowledge. "Scientis...
Thursday, December 5, 2024

If a Tree Falls in the Forest (Pt. II)

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In yesterday's Viewpoint post I argued that sensations like color, sound, taste, fragrance, pain, etc. are not objectively real but are ...
Wednesday, December 4, 2024

If a Tree Falls in the Forest (Pt. I)

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In my classes we discuss the question of what we mean when we say that something is real . One aspect of the question we specifically addres...
Tuesday, December 3, 2024

From Malawi to Minnesota

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Socialism is a seductive idea. It attracts many of those who yearn for a narrower gap between rich and poor, but the reality is that capital...
Monday, December 2, 2024

Another Christmas Gift Suggestion

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Saturday I urged readers to consider my novel In the Absence of God (2012) as a Christmas gift for friends and family and mentioned in pass...
Saturday, November 30, 2024

A Modest Christmas Gift Proposal

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Having just yesterday posted C.S. Lewis's spoof of the commercialization of "Exmas" I'm going today to ignore that post, s...
Friday, November 29, 2024

C.S. Lewis on "Exmas"

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In 1954 C.S. Lewis wrote a satirical essay expressing his dislike of the commercialization of Christmas. It was titled Xmas and Christmas: A...
Wednesday, November 27, 2024

The Pilgrims' Ordeal

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Every year since 1961 the Wall Street Journal has been running an account of the departure of the Pilgrims from Holland for the New World w...
Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Mass Deportation (Pt. II)

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Yesterday's post addressed the concerns of Mark Tooley about the difficulties, both practical and moral, of deporting 11 million illegal...
Monday, November 25, 2024

Mass Deportation (Pt. I)

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President-elect Trump campaigned on the promise of deporting the 11 million illegal aliens believed to be in the country today, most of whom...
Saturday, November 23, 2024

Snowflakes

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John Masko at the Wall Street Journal (paywall) writes that, A couple of days after the election, a closeted Republican friend sent me a c...
Friday, November 22, 2024

Naturalism Vs. Christianity: Ethics

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There are in our contemporary Western society two live options when it comes to worldviews - theism and naturalism (or materialism). When c...
Thursday, November 21, 2024

Trump and Israel

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One of the funnier slanders leveled by President-elect Donald Trump's opponents during the recent presidential campaign was that Mr. Tru...
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Children of Light

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Australian geneticist Michael Denton is the author of several excellent books, two of which - Firemaker and The Wonder of Water - I discu...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Firemaker

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In yesterday's post on the amazing properties of water it was noted how easy it is to take some very extraordinary things for granted a...
Monday, November 18, 2024

The Wonder of Water

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We take so much of what's going on all around us, both in our bodies and in the natural world, for granted. In the course of our busy da...
Saturday, November 16, 2024

Criticizing the Qualifications of Trump's Nominees

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Democrats are expressing much displeasure over many of President-elect Trump's picks for his cabinet and, truth to tell, some of their c...
Friday, November 15, 2024

How Would the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life Affect Belief in God?

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Suppose scientists discovered intelligent life on a planet in a distant solar system, or perhaps on several such planets. What would be the ...
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Tyranny for Our Own Good

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One of the things that voters rejected in the recent election was the tyranny of elites on the left who believe that their intrusions into o...