According to a new study in Nature Geoscience , we still don’t know: No one knows exactly how much Earth’s climate will warm due to carbon emissions, but a new study suggests scientists’ best predictions about global warming might be incorrect. The study, which appears in Nature . . . . Continue Reading »
First Things is taking a poll — a “journey through the wild world of college rankings.” Quantify — and qualify! — your experiences here . . . . . Continue Reading »
Britain. Old Blighty, indeed. (Via Mark Shea ) . . . . Continue Reading »
If you haven’t already, take the Students of Faith survey over at the First Things home page.First Things is embarking on a journey through the wild world of college rankings, and we need your help. We’d like to come up with a list of schools that provide (1) a solid academic training, . . . . Continue Reading »
All right, this quiz is dadgum everywhere right now, but on the off-chance that you haven’t taken it yet . . . For the record, I took it twice. I am either Saint Melito or Origen. Make of that what you will. But . . . uh . . . the Church Fathers collectively are . . . great . . . Right, Al? . . . . Continue Reading »
Georgetown or Christendom? Baylor or Houston Baptist? Calvin College or Wheaton? Princeton or Yale? What do you think of your school’s attitude toward religion? Toward its religious students? Toward theology? Toward its mother church? Now’s you chance to say, by taking the First Things . . . . Continue Reading »
One would think that an ultra liberal newspaper like the NYT would look askance at an advocate who believes parents should be allowed to murder their baby if the child does not suit the interests or promote the happiness of the family. But the Times loves Singer and has since the utiltiarain . . . . Continue Reading »
You would think that an ultra liberal newspaper like the New York Times—which claims to believe in human equality—would look askance at an advocate who argues that parents should be allowed to murder their babies if the child does not suit the interests of the family. Illustrating how . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s On the Square article , physicist Stephen Barr pushes back against the idea that the practice of science must necessarily be atheistic: For Haldane and Krauss, religion is about miracles, and miracles are about magic and the irrational, and therefore belief in God stands in . . . . Continue Reading »
This just came over from the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai Brith:A national campaign intended to educate the general public about Islam through a series of advertisements on buses, subways and billboards is tainted by the fact that a Web site related to the campaign links to sites that . . . . Continue Reading »
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