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February 2017

February 14, 2017

And now multigender

How many genders are there? Jenny Crofton says an infinite number. And that each person...

February 03, 2017

Conform to reality or subdue reality?

Justin Taylor quotes from C. S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man. Peter Kreeft calls these...

February 01, 2017

“Pregnant people”

The British Medical Association has issued guidelines saying that to avoid offending the transgendered, health...

January 2017

January 30, 2017

Now a human/pig hybrid

Scientists have combined the cells of a pig with the cells of a human, resulting...

December 2016

December 27, 2016

The superiority of the left-handed

People who are left-handed constitute 10-15% of the population. The other 85-90% have often given...

November 2016

November 30, 2016

Now that men can become pregnant. . .

Now that gender has been disassociated from biology and is a matter of personal self-identification,...

October 2016

October 26, 2016

Tom Wolfe takes on Darwinism and its failure to explain language

Tom Wolfe is among our best contemporary writers. The founder of the New Journalism, which...

October 12, 2016

To evacuate, or not to evacuate

Coastal areas in Florida and other Southeastern states evacuated their populations to escape Hurricane Matthew....

August 2016

August 31, 2016

Loving your neighbors in the Louisiana flood

That flooding in Louisiana that killed 13 and damaged 40,000 homes brought out some inspiring...

August 29, 2016

The older you get, the happier you are?

A study has found a linear relationship between old age and happiness. That is, the older...

August 18, 2016

New Zealand’s animal kill-off

New Zealand has almost no native mammals. Just bats. So when rats, possums, and stoats...

August 12, 2016

A shark that was 512 years old?

It turns out that Greenland sharks routinely live to be 272 years old. One was...

August 08, 2016

A pig with a human brain

The ethical issues involved in combining human DNA with animal DNA are so great--and so...

August 05, 2016

Pope connects gender ideology to economic exploitation

Pope Francis connected the new gender ideology, according to which children can choose their own...

June 2016

June 20, 2016

The first day of summer and God’s promises

In our Bible class on Sunday, in which we studied the flood in Genesis, we...

May 2016

May 23, 2016

The brain is NOT a computer

Brain researcher Robert Epstein explains that, contrary to what we keep hearing, the brain is...

April 2016

April 26, 2016

What the Bible says to scientists

I've been reading the Psalms and I keep coming across texts that I've usually skimmed...

April 11, 2016

“Pleasant to the sight”

In our Bible class, we were studying stewardship. I know, not the most exciting of...

April 01, 2016

Sex & child-bearing to be obsolete in 20 years?

[NOT AN APRIL FOOL'S JOKE!] A Stanford professor of law and genetics is maintaining that...

March 2016

March 24, 2016

Unthinkable experiments

Theologians have long talked about the limits of our finite human reason when it comes...

March 22, 2016

A medical statement about gender confusion in children

The American College of Pediatricians, a conservative medical organization, has issued a statement entitled Gender...

March 10, 2016

Scientific outrage!

A paper on the workings of the human hand published in a scientific journal uses...

February 2016

February 03, 2016

A cat trapped inside a human body

We have women born in a man's body, and men born in a woman's body. ...

February 02, 2016

We will soon evolve into “Homo Optimus”

A futurologist is predicting that we will merge with computers and evolve into a new...

January 2016

January 27, 2016

The end of the “noble savage”

Archaeologists have discovered the site of a deadly massacre in which 27 people were killed...

January 25, 2016

Your brain has as much memory as the internet

New research into the brain's synapses has found that the human brain has 10 times...

January 22, 2016

Winter Storm Jonas

I'm glad to be in sunny Oklahoma and no longer in the Washington, D.C., area....

January 22, 2016

Has climate change killed the aliens?

In this vast universe, say many scientists, surely intelligent life has evolved elsewhere. So where...

January 08, 2016

Earthquake alley

I was watching TV around 10:30 on Wednesday night when I thought one of grandkids--we...

January 07, 2016

“I’ve heard a lot about purple”

We've blogged about the new technology that allows people who are color-blind to see in...