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Sweeping Europe, a Pagan Religion Has Daggers Out for This Technology

A religion that sees humans as merely “an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet” would consider these unnecessary deaths hardly worth noticing. Read More ›
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Photo: Bible, Morgan Library, New York, by David Klinghoffer.

Genesis Rescripted: Erasmus and Charles Darwin’s Biblical Indebtedness

One may argue that myth still informs the metaphors underlying the formulation of some present-day scientific theories. Read More ›
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An Unusual Story of Everything Review from the UK

Senior features writer Peter Stanford at The Telegraph seems excited about the documentary almost despite himself. Read More ›
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E.T., Phoned In: The Disneyfied Faith of Steven Spielberg

Steve Deace has called the film a direct assault on Christianity. This wasn’t exactly my impression. I didn’t feel assaulted so much as vaguely condescended to. Read More ›
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If You Care About Faith, Bring on the Aliens, Mr. Spielberg!

Luskin: "If alien life does exist, and if it looks or works even remotely like human biology, then it did not arise by blind evolution." Read More ›
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Science Isn’t God, but It Does Point to God

As you are driving on Interstate 5 just north of downtown Seattle, a home with purple floor-to-ceiling windows stands out prominently. Read More ›
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Sean Carroll Revives Nietzsche’s Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence

The point arrives when a philosophy is so unreasonable, so utterly broken, that one can only give it a good strong kick. Argument fails; one must act. Read More ›
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Scientists Ask, “Is Materialism Holding Science Back?”

Is materialism a straightjacket? The very fact that a respectable conversation is going on around this question tells us that something has changed. Read More ›
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Climate Science Journal Trumpets Glaciers’ “Right to Exist”

Glaciers are made up of snow that over millennia compacted into ice. They grow or shrink based on climate. They are geological features. Read More ›
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We Are Not Alone? No, We Never Were

C. S. Lewis was always game for a chat about God and aliens, as recalled by his protégé Sheldon Vanauken. Read More ›

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