Jordan Ballor summarizes quite nicely ( with all the relevant links ) the state of the conversation regarding evangelicals and natural law. Among the links he provides is one to this piece by Vincent Bacote. Bacote attempts to explain why evangelicals, especially in politics, seem to . . . . Continue Reading »
I didn’t give Earth Hour much thought. (For those who may not know, it is a worldwide campaign to turn off the lights and electric appliances for an hour.) I thought of it in the same way as I think of those ubiquitous ribbon in the lapel campaigns—essentially about feeling . . . . Continue Reading »
I was sipping a glass of red wine, just now—reading the NYT Sunday Magazine. I almost choked. After fighting for two weeks with Arianna Huffington over the role of news aggregation sites—and I sure have no dog in that fight!—editor Bill Keller this week took computer chip in . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . as the conservative reality show (according to ME ). . . . . Continue Reading »
Another big breakthrough on the IPSC front: Skin cells from a patient with Parkinson’s—a variety caused by a genetic condition—have been turned into neural cells, and then studied as the Parkinson’s destroys the tissue. From the story:There are no cures because research . . . . Continue Reading »
What difference does it make if Francis Collins is a Christian and Christopher Hitchens is an atheist? Hitchens has cancer and Collins is working on individualized cancer treatments based on genetics. But that is the hook for this Telegraph story:The author of God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons . . . . Continue Reading »
Animal rights ideology states that there should be no domesticated animals of any kind and no human utilitarian uses of animals of any sort. This would cause great human harm, which animal rights/liberation theorists try to downplay so as to not lose any chance of suading the public to their . . . . Continue Reading »
Philosophy TV posted several reflections on issues related to Christmas during Christmas week last year. Jason Brennan’s contribution presents the Christmas story (i.e. the gospel) as a bad story about an immoral divinity.I chose not to post this actually near Christmas, but when I saw . . . . Continue Reading »
I posted here the other day about the Abby Dorn case, in which an ex husband was trying to prevent visitation between his ex wife and their children, based it seemed to me from the story on her disability and his loathing of her mother. Not knowing all the facts, I didn’t opine—but . . . . Continue Reading »
For those interested why I don’t think the Libyan War is just: . . . . Continue Reading »
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