Written articles from a range of online sources on a variety of topics.
Source: John Stonestreet, Kasey Leander via breakpoint.orgCopyright 2022 by the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. Reprinted from BreakPoint.org with permission. In June, a Google employee who claimed the company had created a sentient artificial intelligence bot was placed on administrative leave. Blake Lemoine, part of Google’s Responsible AI (“artificial intelligence”) program, had been […]
Source: Margaret Harper Mc Carthy via thepublicdiscourse.comOriginally appeared in The Public Discourse, the journal of the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton NJ, and is reprinted with permission. The contemporary distinction between sex and gender downgrades human beings to “biological” males or females with detached “identities.” We should reject this, and insist instead […]
Source: Information DJNO via YouTube. N.B. in the above video Spring Hawks is reading a testimony on behalf of Gabrielle Peters. Bill C-7 was designed to enable “medical assistance in dying” (MAiD). However, critics consider it a flawed piece of legislation, calling it a ‘eugenics’ programme. Canada is NOT As Advertised. […]
Source: David Klinghoffer via evolutionnews.org. Reprinted with permission. I’ve wondered if the marauding vandals will come eventually for the Darwin statues. I hope NOT, but let’s face it — between Francis Scott Key or Ulysses Grant, on one hand, and Charles Darwin on the other, whose work has done more […]
Source: Daniel Philpott via thepublicdiscourse.comOriginally appeared in The Public Discourse, the journal of the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton NJ, and is reprinted with permission. Today, Jacques Maritain’s optimistic vision of Christian liberalism is often contested or dismissed as outdated, but a revival of his emphasis on Christian participation in society and […]
Source: Katarina Carranco via Population Research Institute. Reprinted with permission. An interview with renowned Italian historian Prof. Angelo Bertolo, a devout Catholic, who believes that both faith and reason teach us that high birth rates lead to human progress, not Malthusian disaster. He is a long-time friend and supporter of […]
Source: Tamara El-Rahi via mercatornet.com. Reprinted with permission. A case for having kids rather than avoiding them altogether. As The Guardian UK runs a whole series on being childfree, I wonder where they’ve put all the articles that make the case for having kids. Of course there are many reasons for choosing not […]
Source: Sarah Quale via personhood.org. Reprinted with permission. Despite Novavax’s public statements that its COVID-19 vaccine does not have any connection to abortion-derived cell lines, evidence from a private letter and Novavax’s own published study shows that the HEK293 aborted fetal cell line was used in the testing phase. ~~~~~ […]
Source: David Clayton via thewayofbeauty.orgReprinted with permission. I received an interesting email from my friend, artist James Gillick the other day. Jim, as some regular readers will know, is a Catholic artist who has managed to make a good living by selling his work to the secular market. This is […]
Source: Katarina Carranco via Population Research Institute Are Abortion And Contraception The Solution To The Climate Crisis? It’s a good question. After all, climate crisis advocates blame human activity as the leading cause for climate change. So why not push for global access to abortion and contraception under the guise […]
Source: Casey Chalk via thepublicdiscourse.com. Originally appeared in The Public Discourse, the journal of the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton NJ, and is reprinted with permission. Technology promises to solve our problems, but it also creates new ones. That’s because we have failed to apply human-centric approaches to technology. We think in […]
Source: mercatornet.org Reprinted with from mercatornet.org with permission from Bitter Winter Following its groundbreaking report of February 2020, “Uyghurs for Sale,” further investigations by the ASPI (Australian Strategic Policy Institute) have unearthed more evidence that, far from scaling back its activities following adverse publicity towards its policies, the CCP has unashamedly stepped […]