Written articles from a range of online sources on a variety of topics.
Source: ID THE FUTURE via idthefuture.comReprinted with permission Today’s ID the Future brings the first part of a friendly debate/discussion between Lehigh University biologist and intelligent design proponent Michael Behe and Catholic theologian Matthew Ramage. Led by Philosophy for the People podcast host Pat Flynn, Behe starts by noting that he is […]
Source: Fr. Gavan Jennings via mercatornet.comUsed with permission. How Western culture has been moulded by faith. In this terrific book, Dubliner Fr Paul O’Callaghan, a lecturer in the school of theology in the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, presents a succinct and insightful analysis of a daunting […]
Source: David Clayton vis thewayofbeauty.org. Reprinted with permission. How the Cursing Psalms Helped Schoolchildren During the Occupation of World War Two Recently I had an enjoyable conversation with a director of music at a protestant seminary about about the singing of the psalms. He grew up in a Dutch Reformed […]
Source: Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition A British Coroners Inquest into the death of 14-year-old Molly Russell concluded that social media content had contributed to her death. A British Medical Journal (BMJ) article by Clare Dyer stated: Coroner Andrew Walker ruled that the harmful material had contributed to 14 year […]
Source: Reprinted with permission by Alex Schadenberg, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. This article was first published as a guest blog by the disability rights group Not Dead Yet on August 8, 2022 By Kathleen Nicole O’Neal On June 16, 2022, a forty-four-year-old Italian citizen named Federico Carboni became the first patient in the history […]
Source: Lee Trepanier via thepublicdiscourse.com. Originally appeared in The Public Discourse, the journal of the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton NJ, and is reprinted with permission. After reading Terry Eagleton’s new book, Critical Revolutionaries, the message is quite clear for those who love literature: avoid graduate school, find others who share your passion, […]
Source: Jason Morgan via mercatornet.com. Reprinted with permission The word “genocide” is rooted in the Shoah. A Polish Jew named Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959) first used it in 1944 as a way to describe the systematic murder of European Jewry by the National Socialists. Lemkin’s concept of the slaughter of a […]
Source: Kurt Mahlburg via mercatornet.comReprinted with permission. Facts once assumed true by everyone are quickly becoming controversial. This is a trend we have all become aware of. There is, for example, increasing pressure to suggest that pregnancy can happen to women and men. People who wish to express that “all […]
Source: Rudolph Lambert Fernandez via mercatornet.comReprinted with permission. The engine is the heart of an airplane, but the pilot is its soul. Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh Sitting in your seat, in a darkened theater watching Top Gun: Maverick (2022) will feel as fine as flying in a P-51 Mustang, into a clear […]
Source: Dr. Brian Miller via evolutionnews.org. Reprinted with permission. Editor’s note: See also, “Is Information in DNA “Abstract”? Physicist Randy Isaac Responds.” Physicist Randy Isaac recently wrote a critique of our book The Mystery of Life’s Origin: The Continuing Controversy, arguing that it fails to persuasively demonstrate that life could not have originated […]
Source: Dr. Brian Miller via evolutionnews.org. Reprinted with permission. In my previous article, I described how Randy Isaac’s critique of The Mystery of Life’s Origin: The Continuing Controversy failed to honestly engage with Jonathan Wells’s analysis of how recent textbooks misrepresent the relevance of the Miller-Urey experiment, or with James Tour’s exposé on the state of […]
Source: Anthony Esolen via crisismagazine.com. Reprinted with permission. Recently, a radio talk show host for the Australian Broadcasting Company invited a Catholic professor whose field is the New Testament to speak about the stories surrounding the birth of Jesus. The host, himself not a believer, was delighted with the show and […]