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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 […]
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: Michael Cook via mercatornet.com. It’s Black Friday in Kiev! The Ukrainian clinic BioTexCom is offering 3% off!!!!! on its surrogacy and fertility packages. The discount deal runs from November 15 to November 26. An all-inclusive VIP surrogacy package will cost only 1,947€ (US$2,200); a “Perfect Chance” IVF package only 447€ ($500). […]
Source: Samantha Hawley reporter for ABC News In-Depth via youtube.com. Damaged Babies & Broken Hearts: Ukraine’s commercial surrogacy industry. Ukraine is the new ‘go-to’ destination for couples desperate to be parents. But our investigation uncovers an industry out of control that exploits surrogate mothers and leaves babies abandoned. With international […]
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 […]