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Spielberg’s Latest Is E.T. Without the Charm

Of the two characters in the film whom Steven Spielberg presents to us as the most compassionate and wise, one is a Catholic nun. Read More ›
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Taking the Side of Science — But Which Side?

In writing that science’s materialism is absolute, Richard Lewontin wrote as one who did not grasp the fatal flaw in his absolutism. Read More ›
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Meet the Materialist Magicians

As our first case study, let’s look at Gary Nolan. Nolan is a distinguished immunologist at Stanford who believes that aliens are visiting Earth. Read More ›
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No. 10 Story of 2023: Solzhenitsyn’s Prophetic Warning — and Meyer’s Counterpoint of Hope

You would have to be willfully blind, or just stay far away from our major city centers, to miss some of the more obvious signs of the spiritual crisis. Read More ›
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40 Years Ago: Solzhenitsyn’s Prophetic Warning — and Meyer’s Counterpoint of Hope

Citing Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn stressed the need to be intellectually prepared to meet the challenge of atheism. That preparation requires a choice. Read More ›
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Medicine, Religion, and Cosmos — Was Andrew Cuomo Wrong to Invoke God?

In a press conference yesterday about the coronavirus, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo used notably religious language. Read More ›
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Why Nature’s Prophet Had to be Written

Wallace’s greatest “heresy” was to become, after his co-discovery of natural selection, “godfather” of the modern theory of intelligent design. Read More ›
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Demons and Multiverses

Yale clinical neurologist Dr. Steven Novella posted recently about Dr. Richard Gallagher, a psychiatrist trained at Yale who provides psychiatric consultation services to the Catholic Church. Read More ›

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