This week’s post is a follow-up to a discussion that I started on Hubpages. Recently, while reading The Magic of Reality (2012) by Richard Dawkins, I came upon this interesting proclamation in the chapter titled, “Why Do Bad Things Happen?”:…
I have long held the assumption that the media’s role in modern society is not, in fact, to objectively report events that happen in the world but rather to selectively choose those stories that serve an ideological end—the news, then,…
The dangers of oneism point to one inescapable and horrid reality: idolatry. In a recent Sunday Review in The New York Times, David P. Barash, an evolutionary biologist and a professor of psychology, wrote an editorial describing why science and…
The British Society for Psychical Research defines the boggle line as “a term coined by Renée Haynes to indicate the point at which a phenomenon is considered highly unlikely to be real. This point is subjective and will vary from…
Who has full rights to the genetic makeup of unborn children? Is it the parents, or is that privilege better left in the hands of the divine? Is “tinkering” with an unborn child’s DNA morally corrupt even when the parents…
In my medical opinion, the truth about vaccines is this: there is sufficient data that enables any rational person to exercise their free will and decide not to be vaccinated or to refuse particular vaccinations for their children. My wife,…
I was alarmed recently while reading an article that detailed the unfortunate fate of Italian scientists who were convicted for allegedly providing “inexact, incomplete, and contradictory information.” In short, these scientists were found guilty for not warning the public about…
Intentions always have inadvertent consequences, whether good or bad. Intent based on love or the well-being of the recipient often requires sacrifice on the part of the initiator. Bad intentions, however, tend to focus solely on the target and aim…
What are the flaws of Darwinism and how can a rational mind approach this theory? C.S. Lewis once said, “Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that…