Kass Lauds Human Dignity While Accepting CBC Ramsey Award
by Wesley J. SmithLeon Kass is one of the great thinkers in bioethics (and a friend), a man of great eloquence whose rare depth of thought and knowledge sometimes makes my jaw drop.In honor of his many years of contribution to bioethical discourse and his many services to society, the Center for Bioethics and Culture . . . . Continue Reading »
Sermon Review: John Street Church
(New York City)
by Kevin Staley-Joyce
The distinctive look of an Early American church is unmistakable. It might be Boston’s Old North Church or King’s Chapel or, as visitors to Manhattan’s Financial District may find, New York’s John Street Church. John Street’s congregation, the oldest Methodist congregation . . . . Continue Reading »
Other Darwin Thoughts
by Peter Lawler1. The thought Locke=Nature and Darwin=History described above is almost completely backwards. Locke=Freedom From Nature (and implicitly history) and Darwin=Nature is much closer to the truth. That’s why Darwinian Larry can use Darwin, with some initial plausibility, to oppose History (by . . . . Continue Reading »
There May Be a Reason for Atheist Pastors
by David MillsPreachers Who Are Not Believers , the new study by the “new atheist” Daniel Dennett and a colleague, has inevitably gotten a lot of attention—and I think rightly, because the problem it exposes is a real one, whether or not the problem of disbelieving pastors is widespread. From my . . . . Continue Reading »
the best opportunity
by Frank TurkThey’re reporting at Breitbart.com that since the Health Care reform initiative was such a grand-slam, they have to now move on to Global warming.“Climate legislation is the single best opportunity we have to create jobs, reduce pollution and stop sending billions overseas for foreign . . . . Continue Reading »
Dante Meets Vatican II in Sci-Fi Hell
by Joe CarterIn today’s On the Square feature, Robert R. Chase reviews a pair of science fiction novels inspired by Dante’s Inferno : Larry Niven conceived the idea to write a sequel to Dante’s Inferno but worried about its theological underpinnings. He felt that the “naïve Roman . . . . Continue Reading »
Human Exceptionalism: Stopping Ivory Poaching and Culling Elephant Herds Part of the Same Project
by Wesley J. SmithAnimal rights advocates and their emotionalist allies often wail, “They’re killing the elephants!” when castigating needed culling in the African wild animal parks. They are wrong about that. Failing to cull would result in destroyed environments and possible elephant . . . . Continue Reading »
Books that Changed My Life
by John Mark ReynoldsI have decided to list the books that changed my life . . . not the best books I have read. How to get on the list? First, I have read it more than ten times. Second, I can see the cover of my first copy in my mind’s eye. Third, it is a book I have carried to an event that had nothing to do . . . . Continue Reading »
Real Men Prove Darwin Wrong (Again)
by Peter LawlerThat was a dumb title of an article I wrote several years ago talking up the manly authors Mansfield and Tom Wolfe. My BUILDING BETTER THAN THEY KNEW TOUR continues next Thursday at the Rochester Institute of Technology . There Darwinian Larry Arnhart and I will speak on Darwin and the . . . . Continue Reading »
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