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Stalin's Railroad of Death Unearthed

June 7, 2012

Stalin, who read Darwin in divinity school and turned atheist, became a ruthless dictator whose reign of terror killed multiple millions more than Hitler. One of his evil deeds is being remembered: a railroad project in Siberia that was never completed despite causing the deaths of at least 100,000 people.

Bible and Theology

How to Make Darwinism Impregnable

June 6, 2012

The way to make a concept impregnable is to use rhetorical devices to render competition out of bounds, and then nationalize the favored view. An AP story demonstrates how this is done with evolution.

Amazing Facts

Venus Transit Recalls Adventures of Yore

June 5, 2012

Today's transit of Venus, in which our sister planet appears to cross the disk of the sun, will be the last till 2117. As observatories and millions of people watch the rare planetary alignment, few may know the stories of astronomers who predicted them and explorers who risked life and limb to observe them.

Darwin and Evolution

Monkey Raspberries Created Speech

June 2, 2012

What was this evolutionist thinking when he proposed that human language evolved out of the lip smacking and buzzing sounds made by monkeys?

Bible and Theology

Darwinian Indoctrination Still Not Working for Most Americans

June 1, 2012

Almost half the American public still believes God created man recently, despite decades of indoctrination by education and the media.

Bible and Theology

Spiders Can Cross Oceans

May 31, 2012

Why did the spider cross the ocean? To colonize the Old World after it "originated" in the New World.

Media

Climate Change as a Philosophy of Science Case Study

May 30, 2012

Climate Change (what used to be called Global Warming) provides a test case on whether a scientific consensus is reliable or authoritative.

Amazing Facts

The Wonder and Blunder in Your Skull

May 29, 2012

Even when it goes awry, the brain wins an award of cosmic proportions, according to a veteran psychiatrist.

Bible and Theology

Animal Sin: What Does It Imply?

May 20, 2012

Some animals commit cruel or disgusting acts humans would consider immoral. What does this mean?

Bible and Theology

What SETI Guru Wants to Know

May 18, 2012

Seth Shostak, a SETI advocate, has two key questions for aliens.

Mind and Brain

Shrink Validity Is Shrinking

May 18, 2012

Should you trust the diagnosis of a psychiatrist? If it helps, individuals are free to choose. Behind the scenes, however, there are severe, deep-seated debates about whether psychiatrists understand disorders, let alone diagnose them properly.

Mind and Brain

Improbable Ape Speaks Randomly

May 15, 2012

It's not uncharitable to call someone an ape when he calls himself that.

Astronomy

Dark Matter as an Escape

May 14, 2012

Employing exotic unobservable entities such as dark matter may be an escape from scientific rigor in more ways than one.

Bible and Theology

Noah's Ark Claim Not Trustworthy

May 13, 2012

A creationist group in Hong Kong is releasing a dramatic documentary filled with fantastic claims about the discovery of Noah's Ark on Mt. Ararat. Other prominent creationists are warning of fraud and scientific malpractice.

Bible and Theology

Evolutionists Need to Mind Their Matters

May 12, 2012

To a Darwinian evolutionist, the mind is the product of unguided mutations and random environmental pressures acting on material forces. This raises questions about the mind and morals: do they have any validity? Evolutionists need to "mind" their matter. The following examples show how they try to justify these non-material entities arising from matter in motion.

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