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Why Scientific Materialism Is No Match for Truth, Beauty, and Goodness

These abstract concepts don’t derive from the material world, yet we feel impoverished without them; they’re foundations of a life worth living. Read More ›
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How “Medical Aid in Dying” Became the Euphemism of Choice for Assisted Suicide

When radical policies are proposed, the first step is to change the lexicon to make it seem less extreme, even mundane. Read More ›
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John West: C. S. Lewis and the Prophet in the White Lab Coat Who Declares, “Thus Saith the SCIENCE”

Science needs its critics as much as any field of human endeavor does. Maybe even more so today. Read More ›
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Evolutionist Jerry Coyne Has a Puzzling View on Hamas

The moral atrocity committed by Hamas seems not to have diminished Professor Coyne’s passion for atheism, determinism, and free will denial. Read More ›
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Animal-Rights Philosopher, Published by Oxford University Press: “Let Animals Vote!”

If you want to see what is going so badly wrong in society, read the professional and intellectual journals. Read More ›
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Nancy Pearcey: Love Your Designed Body, Made for a Purpose

“Once you accept a Darwinian materialist view of nature," says Professor Pearcey, “logically speaking you are going to end up with a low view of the body.” Read More ›
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From Hamas, a Moment of Clarity about Darwinism and More

The real test of a worldview is not merely what it explains, but what it makes us deny. Atheism makes us deny objective moral law. Read More ›
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Saving Humans Is More Important than Saving Pigs

A potential avenue of increasing the supply of organs — xenotransplantation — is not, in my view, morally problematic in the least. Read More ›
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Live Not by Lies: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Intelligent Design

When one person stands up to lies or oppression, others can become emboldened to do the same. Read More ›
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Thoughts of Goodness in an Evolutionary World

What you’d expect is humans more or less on the level of animals — not greatly exceeding them in evil, or greatly transcending them in good.  Read More ›

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