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My Gift to You: David Berlinski Interviewed by Peter Robinson

Berlinski’s plea is that the grave contradictions between evolution and evidence at least be forthrightly admitted. Read More ›
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An “Impersonal Universe” and Its Consequences

Physicist Frank Tipler, as I noted earlier today, provocatively personalizes the Singularity, the beginning point or moment from which the universe burst forth. Read More ›
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More Victories for Academic Freedom…Down Under

It seems that a movement of support for academic freedom is rising in Australia. I hope it makes its way to the United States. Read More ›
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Washington Post Boosts Elderly “Rational Suicide”

The story ends with the phone number of a suicide prevention hotline. That’s just a sop after potentially putting lethal ideas into readers’ heads. Read More ›
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Photo: Statue of Charles Darwin, Natural History Museum, London, by ddouk via Pixabay.

The “Fearing Evolution” Trope

Razib Khan explains why “evolutionary biology is nothing for conservatives to fear,” since “it is one of the crowning achievements of modern Western civilization.” Read More ›
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Photo: Tucker Carlson and Eric Metaxas on Tucker Carlson Tonight, via Real Clear Politics (screen shot).

Good Question for the Next Darwinist You Meet

Or ask the next theistic Darwin-appeaser who soothes us with the assurance that there is nothing terribly corrosive about the evolutionary perspective. Read More ›
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Photo: Germany’s highest court, the Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht), by Tobias Helfrich [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

German High Court to Rule on Right to Suicide

If the continent’s most important country embraces the culture of death, the darkness will spread. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash.

Darkness Rising: As It Turns Out, Not All Newborns Have a Right to Life

The culture of death — the dehumanization of the vulnerable and the unwanted — is fast upon us. Read More ›
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Great Minds: Medved, Gelernter Ask, “What Is a Conservative?”

The hypothesis of design in nature is a great idea, none greater, that has fueled the best in culture for millennia. Read More ›

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