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August 2025

August 13, 2025

The Scandal in Scientific Publishing

Fake research is being published in scientific, medical, and academic journals that was written by...

August 08, 2025

The Scopes Trial and Eugenics

The Scopes Trial, which marks its 100th anniversary on August 10, was not just about...

August 06, 2025

Re-enchantment or More Disenchantment?

With the rise of science over religion, "disenchantment" has become a hallmark of modernity. People...

July 2025

July 17, 2025

Liberal Theology & Eugenics

Eugenics--the attempt to improve the human gene pool by breeding for desirable traits and sterilizing...

June 2025

June 18, 2025

The Collapse of Our Knowledge System

"The biggest news story of our century is happening right now—but is never mentioned in...

June 12, 2025

Does Everything Have Consciousness?

Secularist materialism is starting to fade. This is evident in the vogue of panpsychism, the...

May 2025

May 16, 2025

Weird Science & the New Social Imaginary

Some scientists claim to have found evidence for the two wildest theories being proposed to...

April 2025

April 28, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 4/28/25

Generating "bodyoids": Humans with no minds. Wisconsin trick increases school funding for 402 years. And...

April 21, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 4/21/25

The Pope has died. Illinois Bill Would Restrict Homeschooling. And Poland's Per Capita Economy to Surpass...

March 2025

March 03, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 3/3/25

Measuring negative time. Court rules that zoos are not prisons. And the secret to a...

December 2024

December 12, 2024

Light of Light

An Advent custom is contemplating Christ as the light of the world. We know much...

November 2024

November 21, 2024

Evolution with Purpose

Oxford biophysicist Denis Noble is not a creationist nor an advocate of Intelligent Design. But...

October 2024

October 29, 2024

The New Theists

Ross Douthat, writing for the New York Times, thinks religion may be on the verge...

October 18, 2024

Friday Miscellany, 10/18/24

Young men are now more religious than young women. Portlandia is replacing its entire government. ...

September 2024

September 20, 2024

Consciousness Does Not Reside in the Brain?

"Contemporary Western cultures insist consciousness resides exclusively in our brains, but an abundance of recent...

August 2024

August 26, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 8/26/24

Putin offers conservatives sanctuary in Russia; consciousness detected in 25% of the comatose; and watch...

April 2024

April 29, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 4/29/24

Major medical report repudiates transgendering children. Not hiring someone with a criminal record is racist?...

April 08, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 4/8/24

Cosmic coincidences and the total eclipse; adult baptisms soaring in France; and more evidence that...

March 2024

March 11, 2024

Monday Miscellany 3/11/24

Another bad idea from France, Colorado's DNA scandal, and world hunger gives way to world...

February 2024

February 19, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 2/19/24

Tooth Fairy inflation, saving the climate by polluting the earth, and Iran claims Antarctica.

January 2024

January 11, 2024

Postmodernism Is Now Infecting Science

As postmodern relativism, critical theory, leftwing politics, and woke ideology took hold in academia, the...

December 2023

December 04, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 12/4/23

The word of the year, the end of Popular Science, and the Transgender Day of...

October 2023

October 12, 2023

Does Everything Have Consciousness?

Science has uncovered a huge amount of information about the universe. But some areas are...

September 2023

September 19, 2023

Is the Tide Turning on Religious Belief?

As I've been blogging about "the great dechurching," I was reading a book that I...

September 11, 2023

Monday Miscellany 9/11/23

Trump and the 14th Amendment, a plea for a church for the nones, and a...

August 2023

August 07, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 8/7/23

The American Academy of Pediatrics will revisit "gender affirmation care"; Republican candidates hide their church, while...

July 2023

July 03, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 7/3/23

The decline of woke capitalism, losing the consciousness bet, and politicians' "matching donations" scam.

June 2023

June 23, 2023

Is the Universe a Brain?

Science is used to assuming that the universe is just a collection of inert objects...

May 2023

May 15, 2023

Monday Miscellany 5/15/23

The plan to make every black Californian a millionaire, the results of legalizing marijuana, and...

March 2023

March 23, 2023

Light and Christ

Old science purported to dispel mysteries. New science shows reality to be more mysterious than...