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Slade Gorton
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Remembering Senator Slade Gorton

Some will submit that his kind are gone, but I know that they are still around, because he helped get them there. Read More ›
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Concluding Thoughts on That Hideous Strength

What was possible for Mark Studdock — the realization that much of contemporary civilization is built on lies — is still possible for any thoughtful person. Read More ›
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Image: Screen shot from That Hideous Strength: C.S. Lewis's Prophetic Warning against the Abuse of Science.

The Education of Mark Studdock in That Hideous Strength

Mark is lured away from his teaching position at Bracton College to become part of the massive research effort known as the N.I.C.E. Read More ›
Stephen Meyer
Photo: Stephen Meyer, a screenshot from "The Science & Faith Podcast - James Tour and Stephen Meyer: Life's Origin: Lab + Information = Mind."

Tour, Meyer: The Mystery of Life Itself

As Stephen Meyer puts it here, “When life leaves, we don’t exactly know what’s left, but we know something left and it’s not just the physical.” Read More ›
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Image: Screen shot from That Hideous Strength: C.S. Lewis's Prophetic Warning against the Abuse of Science.

The Main Argument of The Abolition of Man

Lewis foresees a class of men called “the Conditioners.” The Conditioners have “seen through” all attempts to ground behaviour in any ultimate truth. Read More ›
Stephen Meyer

Stephen Meyer and James Tour: Tonight, a Wide-Ranging and Personal Conversation

Does life's origin reflect the activity of a mind, or do blind, purely physical processes alone serve as a fully satisfactory explanation? Read More ›
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The Education of Mark Studdock: A Sociologist Learns the Lessons of The Abolition of Man

C.S. Lewis wrote: “This is a ‘tall story’ about devilry, though it has behind it a serious ‘point.’" Read More ›
C. S. Lewis

That Hideous Strength — C. S. Lewis’s Fantasia of Consciousness at 75

The novel is a narrative, fictional version of a philosophical anatomy of the satanic dimension and implication of much modern history from 1914 onwards. Read More ›

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